Kansas City Regional COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund Major Funders
Thank you to the following major funders and the thousands of individual donors who have collectively raised more than $17 million to support the Kansas City region during this critical time of need.
A very special thank you to the Hall Family Foundation and the Sunderland Foundation for partnering on challenge grants that matched donations to the Fund up to $6 million.
Challenge Funders
- Academy Bank
- Ash Grove Charitable Foundation
- Bank of America
- Bank of Blue Valley
- Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City
- The Abe & Anna Bograd Memorial Trust
- Burns & McDonnell Foundation
- Cerner Foundation, First Hand
- Commerce Bancshares Foundation
- CommunityAmerica Foundation
- Compass Minerals
- Coventry Family Foundation
- Cloud L. Cray Foundation
- CVS Health
- The DeBruce Foundation and Paul and Linda DeBruce
- The Ronald D. Deffenbaugh Foundation
- Deloitte
- Delta Dental of Missouri
- Ann and Gary Dickinson Family Charitable Foundation
- Dave and Dee Dillon Charitable Fund
- Kevin A. Dunn Charitable Foundation
- Evergy
- Feist Charitable Foundation
- Francis Family Foundation
- Gautreaux Family Fund
- GEHA
- General Motors
- The Granary Fund in memory of Pat and Cliff Jones
- Gray Family Foundation
- Hearst Foundations
- Hulston Family Foundation
- The Humana Foundation
- Humana Inc.
- JDC Family Foundation
- Jedel Family Foundation
- JMW & Associates, LLC
- Jeffrey and Margaret Jones Family Foundation
- Kansas Gas Service, a Division of ONE Gas
- Kao Family Foundation
- Kiewit
- Miller Hammond Charitable Fund
- Muriel McBrien Kauffman Foundation
- William G. McGowan Charitable Fund
- Tim and Elin Murphy Family Foundation
- Parris Communications
- The Pfizer Foundation
- PNC Foundation
- Price Brothers Charitable Foundation
- Steve and Carole Price Charitable Foundation
- PWC Charitable Foundation
- Riggs Family Charitable Fund
- Stuart A. Schlemmer Charitable Fund
- Shumaker Family Foundation
- John W. & Effie E. Speas Memorial Trust, Bank of America, N.A., Trustee
- Tension Envelope Corporation
- TruckMovers
- U.S. Bank
- VanTrust Real Estate
- Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Wachstein & their son Julius & Thau Family Trust Fund
- Waddell & Reed Financial, Inc.
- Michael A. Waterford Fund
- Wells Fargo
Founding Funders
- Black & Veatch
- Bukaty Companies
- Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
- George K. Baum Family Foundation
- Greater Kansas City Community Foundation
- H & R Block Foundation
- Hall Family Foundation
- Health Forward Foundation
- JE Dunn Construction
- Kansas City Chiefs
- Kansas City Royals
- Kansas City Southern
- Mallouk Family Foundation
- Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation
- Mazuma Credit Union
- Menorah Heritage Foundation
- Mike and Linda Lyon
- Patterson Family Foundation
- REACH Healthcare Foundation
- Richard and Annette Bloch Family Foundation
- Sherman Family Foundation
- The Sosland Foundation
- Stanley H. Durwood Foundation
- Sunderland Foundation
- UMB Bank
- United Way of Greater Kansas City
- The Vivian and Hymie Sosland Charitable Trust
- William T. Kemper Foundation – Commerce Bank, Trustee
Challenge Funders and Founding Funders contributed a minimum of $25,000.