How To Give

Your gift helps over 2,600 young people annually learn The First Tee Nine Core Values™ of honesty, integrity, sportsmanship, respect, confidence, responsibility, perseverance, courtesy, and judgment.

To donate online to The First Tee of Greater Kansas City, please click on the "Donate Now!" button above. Please read below on how to appropriately designate your gift.

  • Membership-If you are renewing your membership with The First Tee, or becoming a new member, please enter "Membership" in the Designate gift field. If you are donating on behalf of someone else or some other event, please pick the most applicable choice in the designate drop down box.

Restricted & Unrestricted Donations

People can contribute to our supporting foundation, the Junior Golf Foundation of Greater Kansas City through the following means:

    1. Annual Membership - unrestricted donations
        A. Yearly renewable memberships
        B. Participate in Junior Golf Day at your local club/course

    2. Special Events - unrestricted donations
        A. Be a sponsor in our annual "A Day for the Kids" golf tournament hosted by Tom Watson
        B. Play in “A Day for the Kids”        

    3. Restricted Donations
        A. Scholarship Fund - contribute to this fund to support our Al Hoffman
             Scholarship Program.  We will raise $1,000,000 to secure 10 - $4,000
             annual scholarships for participants from our programs
        
B. Capital Reserve Fund - This fund also has a $1,000,000 goal.  
            Proceeds from the fund will be used to support our annual operations.

    4. Memorial and Honoraria Gifts - can be designated by donor, otherwise will
         be considered unrestricted donations.

  If you don't want to donate online send your gift payable to:
    The First Tee of Greater Kansas City
    7501 Blue River Rd.
    Kansas City, MO 64132
    913.648.7177

The First Tee of Greater Kansas City is 501(c)3, Missouri Not for Profit Corporation

Our Tax ID # is 43-1532215

Questions? Please feel free to contact our Executive Director, Pat Zuk using the information above or email at pzuk@thefirstteekc.org.


The First Tee Mission: To impact the lives of young people in the Greater Kansas City area by providing learning opportunities and educational programs that promote character development and life-enhancing values through the game of golf.

2013 Spring Donor Newsletter

For all of our generous partners, please click here for our spring newsletter. In this newsletter you will learn about how our First Tee kids are giving back to the community, information about upcoming events, an exciting announcement about our Annual Fund Campaign and some interesting facts about The First Tee. Thanks again for your continuing support!

Equipment Donations

In regards to equipment donations, we accept metal woods, cavity back irons, all wedges, all putters and golf balls in usable condition. They can be delivered to The First Tee at: 7501 Blue River Rd, Kansas City, Missouri 64132.

We strongly recommend you call prior to coming out as we tend to be in and out of the office frequently. Ellen Fisher, our Operations Analyst is usually in the office more than anyone and it is best to arrange your donation through her. You can email her at efisher@thefirstteekc.org. However, if you are unable to reach us and must drop them off at a certain time you may leave them with the proshop at the address above. If you do this please provide them with your name and address and what you donated so a letter can be sent to you for tax purposes. If dropping things off at our Heart of America location is inconvenient, please let us know and we may be able to arrange an alternative. Once again, thanks for thinking of us.

Home Office Highlights

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