Non-Profit Organization List

50/50 Art Gallery

50/50 was developed with the desire to diversify Kansas City’s art ecology by introducing progressive dialogues through collaboration, utilization of alternative building materials, and 21st century technology.

90.9 The Bridge

Music ; Non-Profit

Turn On. Tune In. Listen Local. The Bridge is listener-supported, non-commercial NPR music radio for Kansas City. In 2013, Kansas City PBS acquired the Triple-A (adult album alternative) radio station broadcasting out of Warrensburg, Missouri. While KTBG 90.9 moved down the road the 60-some miles from Warrensburg to Kansas City, the station’s passion for local music, community, and independent voices has remained the same. In fact, with the power of KCPT behind it, The Bridge has strengthened its commitment to weaving new, rare, and local music into all of our playlists, right alongside familiar hits and classics you know and love. The Bridge connects music lovers with music makers through performances and interviews. As KTBG 90.9, we’re out in the community, supporting the musicians, the venues, the listeners. Our website brings you local industry voices, breaking music news and national music news. No other station does what we do. And nobody else in town plays as much local music as The Bridge. Period. Our city is a true original. And so is The Bridge.

Acoustic Alcove

Music ; Non-Profit

The Acoustic Alcove is a Listening Room located on the historic campus of Unity Village presenting great music from nationally touring folk and Americana artists in an intimate and welcoming setting.

American Guild of Organists - Lawrence/Topeka Chapter

Education ; Family ; Music ; Non-Profit

We are a 510(c)3 organization of organists, pianists and choir directors. We provide concerts, educational events, social activities that primarily focus on keyboard instruments including pipe organ and harpsichord. Our members are primarily professional musicians. We provide free concerts in the communities of Lawrence and Topeka.

American Jazz Museum

ArtsKC Supported ; Education ; Museum ; Music ; Non-Profit

The American Jazz Museum is the only museum of its kind in the world. With a permanent exhibit, a changing art gallery, and hundreds of concerts and events every year, the AJM is devoted to preserving and exhibiting the American art form of jazz music and culture. Located in the Historic 18th & Vine Jazz District in Kansas City, MO, the American Jazz Museum showcases the sights and sounds of jazz through interactive exhibits and films, the Changing Gallery exhibit space, Horace M. Peterson III Visitors Center, Blue Room jazz club and Gem Theater.

Angel Hands Art Foundation

Art ; Non-Profit

Founded by 10 year Savanna Williams, Angel Hands Art Foundation was created as a away to give back to the community in support of children’s charities. At the age of 5 Savanna held her first art exhibit and donated the proceeds to March of Dimes. Born 1lb 15oz Savanna has been a fighter since birth. Barely given a chance to survive she is now serving the community that once reached out to her when she needed it the most. Angel Hands Art Foundation is “dedicated to improving the lives of children through art”. Each year we host a gala where Savanna’s original works of art are auctioned off. The proceeds from the auction are donated to a children’s charity of her choice. For more information please visit www.angelhandsart.com. This year we sponsored our first AHAF Youth Arts Workshop. The workshop was a free event opened to the public designed to help students 4th-8th grade develop an interest in art or define a skill. More the 60 students registered for the event and we are looking forward to next years event.

Art as Mentorship

ArtsKC Supported ; Education ; Festival ; Music ; Non-Profit

Art as Mentorship’s mission is to empower young people to write their own success stories. Our year-round programming braids youth mentorship and community empowerment, using music as a vehicle to change the narrative around race, history and mental health through our Rebel Song Academy and the expansive AMERI’KANA Project. We believe the future will be made brighter by enabling the healing qualities of music to unite us. The Rebel Song Academy: our unique, trauma-informed songwriting program helps underserved immigrant, Latinx and low-income young artists create their own vision for a successful life through access to world-class mentorship, real-world skill development, and mental health support. Along with our core RSA program, Art as mentorship is running six satellite RSA programs in area schools in 2023. AMERI’KANA: expansive project exploring and celebrating the BIPOC influence on American music through documentaries, workshops, and the annual Celebrate AMERI’KANA Music & Arts festival. Celebrate AMERI’KANA is transitioning to a free event in 2023, and was chosen to represent Kansas City for the 2024 One Nation/One Project national arts and wellness initiative.

Art Garden KC

Art ; Family ; Festival ; Music ; Non-Profit

Art Garden KC is a grassroots artist collective specializing in affordable, low barrier, vendor pop-ups and festivals. Our mission is to create economic opportunity for local creative entrepreneurs and small businesses by hosting fun, engaging public events in premiere Kansas City locations! Our weekly festival is FREE to the public and family-friendly! Attendees can find a diverse range of local handmade products from paintings to ceramics, custom clothing, décor, jewelry & more. Plus open mic, food trucks, children’s activities, yoga, healing arts and performances. Other types of vendor specialties include chakra/energy healing, face painting, spirit paintings, caricatures, authors and more. Vendors change every weekend, so there’s always something new to see and do. Learn more at artgardenkc.org or follow us @ArtGardenKC *We currently support over 1,400 artists, makers and small businesses. As of 2023, Art Garden KC is fiscally supported by Troost Market Collective, a 501c3 nonprofit, arts initiative supporting KC creatives and culture throughout the year in the city’s urban core. (troostmarketcollective.org)

Art in the Loop

ArtsKC Supported ; Non-Profit

The Art in the Loop Foundation (AILF) is a private 501(c)3 organization committed to engaging artists in the ongoing revitalization of Downtown Kansas City. The mission of the Art in the Loop Foundation (AILF) is to contribute to the visual identity, enrichment, and revitalization of Downtown Kansas City, create new opportunities for artistic development, and expand public interaction with new art of excellence. AILF values an equitable, diverse, and inclusive art community. Art in the Loop is led by a board of directors with project management and oversight provided by staff of the Downtown Council of Kansas City, Missouri (DTC).

Art School KC

Art ; Education ; Family ; Gallery ; Non-Profit

Art School is a non-profit organization that seeks to connect art-minded people of all ages and walks of life for the betterment and uplifting of the community. Our vision is to hold elevated single art lessons as well as ongoing arts courses. Art School has a small gallery, painting and drawing studio, and ceramics room. We partner with local artists who want to teach what they know. We have figure drawing, open studio and professional development for artist.

Arts & AGEing KC

Art ; Dance ; Education ; Family ; Music ; Non-Profit ; Theatre

We serve the community as catalyst, convener and connector for enriching lives through creative aging.

Arts Council of Johnson County

Art ; Literary ; Music ; Non-Profit ; Theatre

More than just an advocate for the Arts, The Arts Council of Johnson County is dedicated to the enrichment of our community through the Arts. Building a creative culture. Transforming the region into a vibrant, thriving area desirable to new businesses, new visitors, more tourists. Helping to bring the right people together to effect change.

Arts in Prison

Art ; ArtsKC Supported ; Education ; Music ; Non-Profit

Arts in Prison uses the arts as a tool to inspire positive change in the incarcerated, to reduce recidivism and to reconnect offenders with their community. By participating in classes like creative writing, choir, yoga, crochet, poetry, drama, visual art, and meditation inmates gain skills in positive self expression, collaboration and empathy.Why does this matter to the greater community? Because 99% of incarcerated men, women and juveniles will return to their community. We believe that they can either come back with hope in their heart or hate in their eyes. We believe that practicing the arts makes that difference.

Arts Inspired Network

Non-Profit

Arts Inspired Network’s purpose is to advance arts education by creating scholarship and grant opportunities while uniting artists and arts organizations through annual meetings, events, and performances. We seek to serve, strengthen, and inspire the artistic community in the Kansas City area. Since our inception in 2013, we have worked to provide local inspiration and support through a variety of programs for local students and organizations. We have provided over $20,000.00 in student scholarships for summer artistic training through summer camps and intensives throughout the United States through our AIN Student INSPIRE Scholarship Fund. This not only inspired the students but supported arts organizations. In 2020, with Covid-19 and the challenges for the artistic community, we awarded 5 Courageous Creativity KC Challenge Awards to area professionals in different areas of the arts for their “courageous creativity” in Kansas City. In 2022, we awarded 4 AIN Artistic Project Impact Grant Kansas City totaling over $2700.00 to support the operational and administrative costs required to implement new artistic projects in the Kansas City area. We work with individual artists and smaller arts organizations that are in need of community support to assist in helping their artistic project become a reality. We actively seek out collaborative projects to unite and partner with artists and arts organizations, to impact students locally in unique and creative ways using the arts to those that are in life-challenging situations. Our PROJECT 51 Initiative believes, “Every Child Deserves to be Inspired in the Arts” regardless of life’s circumstances. This is our artistic outreach to low-income students in the Kansas City area. Since 2020 we have given away 10,415 art supplies into the hands of local students to inspire “individual creativity”. Our recipient organizations include Artists Helping the Homeless, Boys & Girls Clubs of Olathe, Catholic Charities of NE Kansas, Don Bosco Center/Bishop Miege High School, Kansas City Missouri Police Department, Mattie Rhodes Art Center, Olathe Public Schools McKinney Vento Program, The Spot/Olathe Public Schools, Relentless Pursuit, Safehome Domestic Violence Agency and String Sprouts KC. We believe in doing something for someone who can never repay us. Artistic Generosity has been one of our core values since we started in 2013.

ArtsKC – Regional Arts Council

ArtsKC Supported ; Non-Profit

ArtsKC is a nonprofit arts organization that provides support for the regional art and culture community through programs, advocacy, and investment. OUR MISSION: Advancing Lives Through The Arts ArtsKC is the only arts service organization that has a dedicated strategic focus to promote, support and advocate for the arts in the metropolitan region. ArtsKC’s programs and services are designed to “advance lives through the arts.” This includes programs for the arts community, and those engaged with the arts in the Kansas City region. Additionally, ArtsKC works with local government and civic leadership to advocate for the arts. Each year, ArtsKC programs directly benefit more than 307,000 people and indirectly benefit more than 1.8 million people through ArtsKC-supported organizations. ArtsKC seeks to achieve diversity and cultural equity in its leadership, partnerships, grant making and programs. ArtsKC seeks to be a supporter and model for all arts organizations in the region, particularly in areas of board make-up, staffing, training and communications practices. ArtsKC – Regional Arts Council is a 501c3 nonprofit organization.

ArtsTech

Art ; ArtsKC Supported ; Education ; Gallery ; Non-Profit

ArtsTech represents the culmination of efforts by government entities, local artists, non-profit organizations, and community groups to create a program that meets those needs. By offering opportunities that go beyond mere skill development, ArtsTech helps our youth to become health, productive young adults. Our mission is to better the lives of under served urban youth through the development of marketable and artistic and technical skills.

Astra Theatre Co.

Non-Profit ; Theatre

Astra Theatre Co. is a collective of artists dedicated to artistic excellence. By championing new works and reinvigorating the published theatrical cannon, we seek to provide a professional environment where established and emerging artists alike can foster innovative storytelling. Astra Theatre Co. seeks to produce transformative, truthful theatre that is as vibrant and diverse as Kansas City itself.

ATHA Biennial in Kansas City

Art ; Non-Profit

The Association of Traditional Rug Hooking Artists will be holding their biennial event September 14-17, 2022 at the Sheraton Overland Park Hotel and Conference Enter in Overland Park.

b.hive theatre

Non-Profit ; Theatre

b.hive theatre is a 501(c)3 that is devoted to providing free or reduced-cost creative and expressive arts therapy to the community, using licensed and registered therapists. Our mission is to connect people in our community to themselves, their story, and each other through arts. By providing free or reduced-cost mental health care, we hope to remove the stigma around mental health, to get rid of blockades that keep people from seeking help, and to provide a place where we can connect our body, brain, and spirit creatively in total acceptance and safety.

Bach Aria Soloists

ArtsKC Supported ; Music ; Non-Profit

Bach Aria Soloists is dedicated to presenting the genius and relevance of Johann Sebastian Bach, his contemporaries and those he inspired. The ensemble’s repertoire is adventurous and broad, including, but not limited to, chamber music from Baroque to Contemporary, arias, art songs, Contemporary commissions and more. Bach Aria Soloists’ partners have included national and international artists: Bach scholar Dr. Christoph Wolff, Cellist Matt Haimovitz, the Kansas City Chorale, Kansas City Public Library, Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, JCCC Performing Arts Series, Heart of America Shakespeare Festival, Kansas Public Radio and contemporary dance ensembles Owen Cox Dance and Wylliams-Henry Contemporary Dance. Bach Aria Soloists’ Bach Inspired Concert was selected as arts critic Paul Horsley’s Best of Fall 2021. Bach Aria Soloists held the distinct honor of being named Arts Organization of 2020 by the Missouri Arts Council. BAS’ concerts were named as “one of the highlights” of each year since 2015 by the Kansas City Star. In July 2016, BAS made its Asian debut at the Thailand International Composition Festival as Ensemble-in-Residence and was awarded the USArtists International grant from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Ballet North Inc

Dance ; Education ; Non-Profit

Ballet North seeks to perform rarely seen full length classical and modern ballets to widespread audiences throughout the semi-rural and rural communities of the Northern tier of Kansas City. Ballet North is comprised of a complete ballet training and education program along with a youth based audition selected company plus a host of adult and guest artist performers enabling the performance of virtually any ballet plus Ballet North has many unique ballets created by Artistic Director Laura Reinschmidt rounding out it’s repertoire. The company also seeks to provide ballet education and training to all students regardless of financial or economic condition through the Three Faces of Dance initiative.

Band of Angels

Art ; Education ; Family ; Music ; Non-Profit

Participation in band and orchestra programs builds successful students and strong communities, but every school year, there are children left behind in music education because their families can’t afford the expense of an instrument or music camp. Band of Angels is a charity that addresses financial barriers students face by providing band and orchestra instruments and music camp scholarships to children in need. Band of Angels fosters the talent and academic participation of children across the Kansas City area by creating equal opportunities for music students. We accept monetary and instrument donations, as well as run fundraising events such as the Heart Strings Gala charity concert and Art That Blows, a charity art auction.

Base Academy of Music

Education ; Music ; Non-Profit

BAM is a nonprofit music school in Kansas City, Missouri that makes learning a musical instrument affordable and accessible for urban youth. We ignite our students’ love for music, help them play their very first notes and discover their potential, musically and otherwise. Together with our teachers and parents, we are raising up a generation of urban youth who possess the creativity, confidence, and perseverance to succeed. One-on-one lessons. Sliding scale rates. All instruments. Any child age 5+

Belger Arts Center

Art ; Education ; Gallery ; Non-Profit

Since 2000, the Belger Arts Center (2100 Walnut, Kansas City, MO) has encouraged viewers to explore, question, and deepen their understanding of art and of the world around them. Drawing upon the extensive John and Maxine Belger Family Foundation collection, as well as a rich variety of local, national, and international artists, the Belger Arts Center, has staged over 100 large-scale exhibitions that represent some of the best in contemporary art. In 2013, Belger Arts expanded the Foundation’s commitment to the creative process by opening Belger Crane Yard Studios (2011 Tracy Ave., Kansas City, MO), an arts complex dedicated to providing studio and exhibition space for artists. A range of programming in ceramics education, in addition to the Red Star Residency program and Crane Yard Clay ceramics supply store, has made Belger a center for contemporary art. The Belger Glass Annex (1219 East. 19th St., Kansas City, MO) is the third Belger Arts location and opened to the public in October 2021. It is the first public glassblowing studio in Kansas City of its scale and scope. The new facility boasts state-of-the-art glassblowing equipment and tools, a furnace that holds 300 pounds of molten glass, and three work stations. The Belger Glass Annex is primed to be a Midwest hub for glass art, education, and appreciation, strengthening Kansas City’s reputation as an arts destination. For more information on upcoming exhibitions, classes and workshops, or to schedule a group tour, please visit BelgerArts.org or call 816-474-3250. Price: Free Belger Arts Center Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Saturday: 10 am – 4 pm First Friday of the month: 10 am – 8pm Belger Crane Yard Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Friday: 10 am – 5 pm; Saturday: 10 am – 4 pm First Friday of the month: 10 am – 8pm Belger Glass Annex Hours: By appointment

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