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About Us

The chart below shows the Black Community Fund's grant history by interest area since 1995. Click here to download a PDF. BCF Investments by Interest Area 

2012 Grants Awarded by the Black Community Fund

  • Green Works
  • Stephanie Waterman Foundation
  • UMKC: Musical Bridges

2011 Grants Awarded by the Black Community Fund

  • 40 Acres and a Mule, Inc.
  • American Jazz Museum
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Kansas City
  • Bridge Leadership Academy
  • Cristo Rey
  • Culture House/Underground: An American Story
  • De La Salle Education Center
  • Girl Scouts of NE Kansas and NW Missouri
  • Gordon Parks Elementary School
  • Green Works
  • KC Metro Dance
  • Niles Home for Children
  • Southwest Boulevard Family Health Care/Quindero Satellite Clinic
  • United Inner City Services - St. Mark Child & Family Development Center
  • Urban League of Greater Kansas City
  • Urban Rangers
  • YMCA
  • Young Women on the Move

2010 Grants Awarded by the Black Community Fund

  • American Jazz Museum
  • De La Salle Education Center
  • Genesis School
  • Jackson County CASA
  • Kansas City Boys and Girls Choirs
  • Kansas City Community Gardens
  • Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey
  • Kansas City Parks and Recreation/Make a Splash
  • KC Healthy Kids Initiative
  • Niles Home for Children
  • Operation Breakthrough
  • Truman Medical Center
  • Urban Rangers Corps
  • W.E.B. Dubois
  • Women’s Employment Network

2009 Grants Awarded by the Black Community Fund

  • American Jazz Museum
  • Awesome Ambitions
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Kansas City
  • Boy Scouts of America, Heart of America Council
  • Genesis School, Inc.
  • Higher M-Pact
  • Historic Jazz Foundation, Inc./Mutual Musicians Foundation
  • Linwood Family YMCA and Cleave Family YMCA
  • Minority Business Alliance
  • Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Inc.
  • Reel Images Film and Video Group
  • United Inner City Services
  • United Minority Media Association
  • Urban League of Greater Kansas City
  • Women’s Employment Network
  • YMCA of Greater Kansas City - State Avenue
  • YMCA Providence/Ball Family Center and 8th Street
  • Young Women On the Move

2008 Grants Awarded by the Black Community Fund

  • Ad Hoc Group Against Crime
  • Black Family Technology Awareness Association
  • Black Health Care Coalition Inc.
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Kansas City
  • Cardiology Fund
  • DeLaSalle Education Center
  • Gem Cultural and Educational Center, Inc.
  • Higher M-Pact
  • Historic Jazz Foundation, Inc.
  • Lincoln University Extension
  • Niles Home for Children
  • Truman Medical Center Charitable Foundation
  • YMCA of Greater Kansas City