Please contact MHF at least two weeks prior to submission deadlines if you are a new applicant or are applying for a program not previously funded. We want to ensure your organization is applying in the correct grant cycle, verify eligibility, and understand our requirements. Applicants are expected to limit their grant application to one MHF grant cycle. We are available to counsel you on which of our four grant cycles is the best fit for your organization and your request. Please review our application criteria as well.
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Healthy for Life Cycle
Our Healthy for Life cycle seeks to support programs that proactively improve health and wellness by fostering transformational change in individual or community behaviors. This is a curated cycle by invitation only. If your organization has a program to discuss, please contact us prior to applying to make sure an application is a good fit. The ideal grant in this category would impact mind, body, and spirit. We provide seed money to innovative, trailblazing programs that will draw other funders as the programs become established. Organizations should view MHF as a limited-term source of financial support for such proactive programs.
Unrestricted Operating Support Cycle
Our Unrestricted Operating Support cycle supports core organization operating expenses, placing a priority on organizations providing emergency services and assistance, shelter, safety-net health care, children’s services, and other crisis-based human services. Core operating support is defined as expenses incurred for day-to-day operations such as: Utilities, accounting services, audit, technology, facility maintenance, and professional development.
Eligible organizations must be based in and provide the overwhelming majority of their services in the metro Kansas City area.
The following organizations are not eligible to apply in the Unrestricted Operating Support Cycle: colleges and universities, hospitals, K-12 schools, arts organizations, organizations that require or advocate religious activity as part of or in exchange for services, organizations with annual budgets in excess of approximately $5 million dollars, and local chapters of regional or national organizations who cannot provide local financial information and/or whose local operating budgets exceed $5 million dollars.
Jewish Community Cycle
Our Jewish Community cycle is open to Jewish organizations and includes grants for health-focused programs promoting short-term and long-term physical or mental health, programs which foster or maintain a vibrant Jewish community, and core support for organizations in the Jewish Community.
Aging in Community Cycle
Our Older Adult Grants are core operating support for older adult-focused organizations (i.e. senior centers in underserved communities) or programs which focus on helping older adults age in place (i.e. care management, home modification).
Special Initiatives are invited proposals only that seek to convene regional stakeholders addressing the important issues facing older adults who wish to age in the community. These issues include housing, caregiving, transportation, and social/civic enjoyment.
Our Older Adult core operating grants support core operating expenses for organizations that provide programs and services promoting social and civic engagement of older adults. Core operating support is defined as expenses incurred for day-to-day operations such as: Utilities, accounting services, audit, technology, facility maintenance, and professional development.
Older Adult Special Initiative Grants are limited to invited, collaborative proposals that convene Kansas City metro area stakeholders addressing important issues facing older adults who wish to age in the community. These issues include, but are not limited to, access to community-based services (healthcare, housing, care management, transportation, etc.) and social/civic engagement.