Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Kansas City, Missouri

270
foundations with a Kansas City address
$748.5M
grants paid, FY2024–FY2025
62
say they accept unsolicited
$12,500
median grant

Grantlas lists 270 foundations that gave a Kansas City, Missouri address on their tax filing — 252 private foundations and 18 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2024–FY2025. Together they paid out $748.5 million in grants in their latest filing year, and 62 of them (23%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a Kansas City foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.

Top 25 of 270 foundations

All 25 foundations below say on their 990-PF that they accept unsolicited requests. Another 37 in this list say so too. Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing.

Foundations in Kansas City, Missouri
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation$75,000$95M$100–$20.5MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Hall Family Foundation$45.4M$45.4M—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation$14M$28M$63–$28MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
William T Kemper Foundation$41,250$16.2M$500–$1.8MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Ralph L Smith Foundation 13952400$4.2M$12.3M$2.1M–$5.9MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family$10,000$12.2M$105–$3.3MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Francis Family Foundation$7,750$4.8M$1,000–$300,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Sosland Foundation$5,000$4.3M$100–$1.1MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The H & R Block Foundation$3M$3M—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Umb Financial Corporation Charitable$50,000$3M$5,000–$400,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Richard J Stern Foundation for the Arts$15,000$2.7M$1,500–$300,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Commerce Bancshares Foundation$1,500$2M$200–$60,500FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Hunt Family Foundation$6,783$2M$50–$738,406FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Oppenstein Brothers Foundation$15,000$1.9M$3,000–$100,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Ledezma Foundation$65,000$1.2M$750–$510,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Stueve Family Foundation$1.1M$1.1M—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Bluescope Foundation North America$3,000$1M$25–$75,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Linda Hall Library Trusts$1M$1M—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Lordi Marker Family Foundation$10,000$983,750$1,000–$550,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The McGee Foundation$25,000$901,560$8,000–$52,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Allen P and Josephine B Green$15,550$695,250$1,000–$52,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Forster-Powers Charitable Trust$20,250$565,500$2,000–$75,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
R A Long Foundation$3,750$466,500$500–$35,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Geraldine and R A Barrows Foundation 10013700$15,000$465,000$5,000–$60,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Catherin V Merrill Foundation Co Christine Demareah Elvin Knight$112,500$440,000$75,000–$140,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from the 990-PF grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.

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Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2024–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.