Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation
/OVERVIEW: The Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation supports post-secondary business and entrepreneurship education, healthcare, social services, education for low-income, underserved youth, visual and performing arts and Jewish organizations in the Kansas City metropolitan area.
FUNDING AREAS: Post-secondary business and entrepreneurship education, healthcare, social services, education for low-income, underserved youth, visual and performing arts, Jewish organizations
IP TAKE: Grant opportunities are available four time per year with this accessible foundation that is exclusive to the Greater Kansas City area.
PROFILE: Established in 2011, the Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation is a family foundation based in Kansas City, Missouri. Both of the founders were born and raised in Kansas City and lived here their entire lives. Henry Bloch founded the tax preparation business H&R Block with his brother, Dick. He retired as the company’s CEO in 1992 and as chairman in 2000. The foundation is “dedicated to making Greater Kansas City better.” It funds local efforts for post-secondary business and entrepreneurship education, healthcare, social services, education for low-income, underserved youth, visual and performing arts and Jewish organizations.
The Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation supports business and entrepreneurship education at higher levels of education. Arts grants go to high-quality visual and performing arts groups that increase access and audience participation. Bloch funds youth grants focus on children and youth from birth to 12th grade and into the post-secondary years as well. Health grants fund education and access to quality care. Social services grants support basic needs and pathways out of poverty. Bloch also supports the Jewish community by funding organizations that advance justice. There are also legacy organizations that the foundation supports based upon the founders’ interests, such as the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and St. Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City. Most awards are single-year grants.
Grants range between about $5,000 and $1 million. Learn more about this funder’s local giving on the grant listing page of the funder’s website. Grantmaking focuses on the greater Kansas City metropolitan area, which includes portions of both Missouri and Kansas. Specific geographic interests are Jackson, Clay and Platte counties in Missouri and Wyandotte and Johnson counties in Kansas. Past local grantees include the Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City and the Westside Housing Organization.
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications from nonprofits and uses an online application system. Applications are available year-around, and deadlines are typically in February, April, July and October. Direct general questions to the staff at info@blochfamilyfoundation.org or 816-854-4363.
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