Grants

Grants

Interested in applying for a grant from KC CAN!? 2023 Grant Request Window is now OPEN through Friday, May 12th at Midnight.

Project Criteria

KC CAN! targets projects from 501(c)(3) organizations that align with our mission to support initiatives that create long term solutions towards improving the lives of Kansas City’s children, with an emphasis on projects related to meeting basic needs, education and wellness, as well as the objectives below. Projects are evaluated on their overall merit and as a result are not necessarily required to match all objectives:

  • Addresses a clear, identified area of need.
  • May otherwise go unaddressed through normal means, such as an organization’s operations budget or capital campaign.
  • Opportunities for professional capabilities and volunteer effort that we can provide through the Executive and Advisory Boards.
  • Involves a financial commitment that can be fully funded from the annual KC CAN! budget for the year in which the project is executed.
  • Can be encapsulated into a defined project that is less than a year in duration, with a target of 3-6 months from inception to completion.
  • Provides ongoing, long-term benefit.
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KCCAN does NOT make grants to or for individuals, political organizations or activities, endowments, payroll, or past operating deficits. Grants up to $50,000 will be considered. Most grants are funded between $10,000-$25,000.

Grant Request

Submit the request to board@kccan.org or to a KC CAN! Executive Board Member. Grants will be reviewed and considered through our Grants Committee and Executive Board Meetings in May. Applicants must be available to present to the Executive Board on Giving Day (6/15/2023).

 

Grant Reporting Requirements

  1.     Financial budget versus actual report
  2.     Outcome results
  3.     Photo and/or video if applicable

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Some of our past grants and projects include:

 

Program Area Grant

reStart

Purchased two vehicles to support their youthStart program and Youth Street Outreach Program (YSOP).

$25,000

Kansas City Community Gardens

Helped provide materials for the Beanstalk Children’s Garden as well as transportation for students to visit and participate in the programming.

$14,570

KVC Hospitals

Provided furniture for the renovation of the Kiely Cottage that houses preadolescent kids in the Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility.

$25,000

Literacy KC

Provided furniture and books for the KC CAN! Let’s Read Family Reading Program space in the new Literacy KC location.

$30,050

Variety

Improving the quality of life of children with special needs by fostering inclusion through increased mobility.

$26,000

Safety Street

Build out of site, building, program and ongoing grants

$500,000

Charlie’s House

Capital Campaign for building on site adjacent to Safety Street

$30,000

Giving the Basics

Fund

$23,000

Happy Bottoms

Financial assistance during early stages of launch

$16,000

Sleepy Head Beds

Financial assistance during early stages / purchase of delivery truck

$22,000

Gillis Home

Playground, volleyball court, walking trail

$75,000

Operation Breakthrough

Toddler playground

$7,500

Higher M-Pact

Computer lab, grant for inner city youth programs, back to school program

$25,000

The Bridge Home

Refurbish home for teenage mothers and newborn babies

$7,000

Center School District

Fund opening of a daycare center for children of teen parents

$7,500

Children’s TLC

Curriculum Grant

$1,000

De La Salle

PACE program fund

$5,000

Blessed Sacrament

Playground

$10,000

Grace Center

Cribs

$2,500

Bags of Fun

Fund gift packages for children under care at Children’s Mercy Hospital

$5,000

SIDS Resources Incorporated

Funding for cribs designed to prevent SIDS.

$20,000