2026 Grants and Funding Opportunities

Visit KCK Marketing Grant

The VisitKCK Foundation has started the application process for our Marketing and Community Grants, designed to support marketing efforts and community-driven projects across Wyandotte County.

If you are interested in applying for a grant, please email grants@visitkckfoundation.com with a Letter of Interest (LOI) indicating which grant(s) you are applying for.

Use the subject line: [Grant Name] LOI (for example: Community Grant LOI).

Your Letter of Interest should not exceed 500 words. After your LOI is received and reviewed, selected applicants will be invited to complete the full application.

Applications will be evaluated and the top applicants for each grant will be invited to participate in a brief interview.

KAC Arts Everywhere Grant

The Kansas Arts Commission Arts Everywhere grant program provides funding for cultural projects, programs, exhibitions, series, arts education projects, and other arts programming. This program provides funding for educational institutions, arts organizations, and community service non-profits to use the arts to increase student success, foster creative thinking, develop critical job skills, enhance community development, and increase participation in the arts across Kansas. Projects must relate to an arts and culture discipline (music, dance, theatre, creative writing, literature, painting, sculpture, folk arts, photography, crafts, media arts, visual arts, programs of museums, and other such allied, major art forms).

Applications will be open from February 23, 2026, to March 23, 2026.

All grant activities and expenditures must take place within the grant period, July 1, 2026 – June 30, 2027. See below for more information on eligibility, guidelines, and application details.

Unified Government

Hollywood Casino Grant

Established to support the goals of Healthy Communities Wyandotte, the focus will be to fund programs that increase knowledge and action toward long-term  changes that enable Wyandotte County community members to eat healthy food and be physically active.

The selection committee is seeking applications from any 501(c)(3) organizations in Wyandotte County that demonstrate cultural relevance, address opportunities to increase knowledge and improve the food environment or support active living through utilization of Wyandotte County’s environmental infrastructure. There is no restriction on the minimum or maximum size of a grant. 

All online grant applications must be fully submitted by the deadline of Monday, April 20^th at 5PM CST. Organizations will be notified in mid-July if they have received a grant through this grant program.