Missouri Grants for Nonprofits
Grants for Missouri nonprofits address a wide range of focus areas, from health grants to the arts. Learn more about grants for Missouri with our search tool available through Grant Finder. Become a member.
Giving Trends in Missouri
Missouri – urban and rural, industrial and agricultural, liberal and conservative – reflects several dichotomies. Grants for Missouri, which reflect this state of complexity, amount to around $2 billion per year, according to Candid data for 2018 and 2019.
Missouri funders from across the state come together through the regional association of grantmakers Philanthropy Missouri. According to PM and Candid, funding in Missouri tends to prioritize education, health, and human services. While several large grantmakers focus on metropolitan areas such as St. Louis or Kansas City, the Community Foundation of the Ozarks links together a network of more than 50 small regional foundations that each focus on a local community in the rural areas of central and southern Missouri.
Grants for Missouri consist of a mix of private, corporate, and community foundations. Important funders of Missouri grants include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, St. Louis Community Foundation, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, United Way of Greater St. Louis, Enterprise Holdings Foundation, Hall Family Foundation, Centene Charitable Foundation, Missouri Foundation for Health, Emerson Charitable Trust, Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City, James S. McConnell Foundation, and Community Foundation of the Ozarks.
