Hall Family Foundation Grant

The Hall Family Foundation Grant focuses on enhancing the quality of life in Kansas City by funding initiatives that elevate community spirit, promote equity, and create strong educational foundations. Prioritizing economic opportunities for marginalized communities, the foundation supports projects that foster inclusivity and holistic approaches to poverty reduction. With a commitment to innovative and collaborative efforts, the foundation aims to ensure that all community members can realize their potential and thrive.

What we fund and the impact we seek
We focus our grantmaking in a way that honors our founders’ intent and operates in alignment with our mission, vision, and values – to center our work on ensuring all people experience what is possible.
Kansas City’s community needs will guide us as we work together to create stronger partnerships with communities, nonprofit partners, and foundation colleagues, in order to increase opportunities for all to succeed.
What we fund and the impact we seek
To achieve our vision of enabling all people in our community to experience what is possible; to achieve their greatest potential, and to create a bigger impact, our grantmaking will focus on three interconnected impact areas:

• KC Spirit: Elevating Kansas City

To ensure that greater Kansas City’s regional assets, cultural organizations, and sense of community make it a thriving and inclusive place to live.Make Kansas City stronger by embracing all in our stories & vision for the city through investments in regional assets, arts & culture, and community wide initiatives.
Prospering Communities: Increasing equity for all
To support families through organizations and initiatives that take a holistic approach to reducing poverty and increasing equity and well-being.Communities prosper when there are equitable opportunities to access education, housing, employment, and health care. We prioritize investments that take systemic and comprehensive approaches to increasing opportunities for all to thrive in their neighborhoods of choice.Grantmaking focuses on economic inclusion – livable neighborhoods – healthcare – emergency and safety net services.
Growing Minds: Creating strong educational foundation for life
We prioritize investments that improve outcomes and access to quality programming for children and their families in education.Grantmaking focuses on Pre-K, K-12, post-secondary, and wraparound support services, in addition to out-of-classroom initiatives that address barriers to education and provide additional academic support.

Eligibility

A copy of the organization’s most recent 501(c)(3) tax exempt ruling from the IRS should be included in the application.The Foundation prefers to concentrate its philanthropic efforts in the greater Kansas City region, including Jackson, Cass, Clay and Platte Counties in Missouri, and Wyandotte and Johnson Counties in Kansas. The Foundation’s bylaws state The University of Kansas is an exception to this rule.

Ineligibility

Areas of Exclusion:Organizations outside the greater Kansas City area;Political parties, candidates or political activities;Individuals;International organizations;Religious organizations where the primary purpose is promotion of specific religious doctrine;Endowments;Scholarly research;Past operating deficits or debt reduction;Event promotion (i.e., golf tournaments, walk-a-thons, etc.); orTravel or conference expenses.Groups classified by the IRS as 509(a)(3) supporting organizations.
The Foundation generally does not provide operating support grants.