Ina Calkins Board Grant

The Ina Calkins Board Grant supports 501(c)(3) nonprofits in Kansas City, Missouri, providing approximately $200,000 annually. Grants are awarded to enhance social services, education, and health care for those in need. Eligible organizations must serve residents of Kansas City, ensuring that aid benefits the local community.

The Ina Calkins Board has assisted people and non-profit organizations in Kansas City since 1930. Mrs. Calkins, widow of A. W. Calkins, millionaire pump manufacturer, died in 1930 leaving her estate to be administered by ten persons "of high character interested in their fellow man.”
History and Founding Donors
Mr. Calkins began as a traveling pump salesman working in western Illinois, Iowa, eastern Nebraska, and northern Missouri. He visited Kansas City regularly and in 1880 organized the Kansas City Pump Company.
In her will, Ina Calkins directed that the income from the assets of her estate be used by the board:
To some organization or organizations in the State of Missouri, which are engaged in teaching to the public generally or to some portion thereof, and particularly to the young, advantages, social, moral, economical, and physical of the total abstinence from the use of alcoholic liquor as a beverage, and the advantages of the enactment and enforcement of law for the prohibition of the traffic in intoxicating liquor.To meet the physical needs of needy men and women who are above the age of sixty years.To provide for the care of children who cannot be properly provided for by those upon whom they are dependent or who have none upon whom they may depend, or/and, to make provision for such children so that they may have the benefit of life in a home, either with their parents or friends or elsewhere.
To furnish medical or surgical aid for poor children who are crippled or deformed.
To provide means for the education of those, who being without means thereto, wish to study and prepare themselves for social service of one type or another.
To aid from time to time in endowing any college or colleges, or any university or universities situated within Kansas City, Missouri, which admit the worthy youth of Kansas City to the privileges thereof.
To assist in providing funds for erecting buildings for, or/and for carrying on the work of some Young Men’s Christian Association or Associations, or Young Women’s Christian Association or Associations.
Provided that the people or/and institutions receiving financial aid as aforesaid, and to be benefited thereby, shall be within the City of Kansas City, Missouri, that is, all such people shall be residents of Kansas City, Missouri, and all such institutions shall be located in said City of Kansas City, Missouri, except that the moneys expended under the provisions of sub-paragraph (a) above shall not be so limited.
The Ina Calkins Board is seeking grant proposals from 501(c)(3) nonprofits in the Kansas City MO. It is a granting body that will distribute approximately $200,000 each year. The Ina Calkins Charitable Trust will notify all applicants by the end of November of the decisions of its Community Board.

Eligibility

Organizations eligible for funding must be 501(c)(3) nonprofits located in and serving residents of Kansas City, Missouri.