That's a wrap on 2024!
Please check back in October, when 2025 sponsorships will become available.
Providing holiday gifts for Kansas City area children and families in need
Your donations make a difference
Christmas Families began in the winter of 1984 when three families were blessed with food and gifts for the holiday season. Since then, hundreds of KC metro area families have been assisted. In 2001, Christmas Families expanded their mission to include foster children and at-risk youth, our Red Bag program. To date, nearly 35,000 children have been given big Red Bags full of clothing and gifts. All of this is due to the incredible generosity of our sponsors.
In 2024 alone, 1,932 children and 62 families were helped through our program. Due to the generous donation from the Matthew Skeens Memorial Fund, which covers all of our hard costs, 100% of your donations go directly to those in need, as we continue to spread hope and happiness during the holiday season. Together, we’re making a difference, one red bag at a time.
Our Mission
Christmas Families and Red Bags KC is a 501(c)(3) organization that brings the spirit of the holidays to Kansas City foster children, low-income families, and at-risk youth. Run entirely by volunteers, our goal is to procure local individuals, faith communities, businesses, and schools to sponsor a child or family and provide a red bag filled with wrapped surprises and everyday needs. We work directly with social service agencies to identify Red Bag recipients, as well as their individual wishes, personal care items or clothing requests, and more. ALL monetary donations are used to purchase gifts for foster children and families.
Thank you to our Sponsors
The Retirement Planning Group
Thank you for underwriting the cost of the bikes and assembling them for distribution.
Frontier Bag
We appreciate you providing our bright red bags every year.
Matthew Skeens Memorial Fund
The generous annual donation from the Matthew Skeens Memorial Fund covers all our hard costs, such as printing and mailing, ensuring that all of YOUR donations go directly toward purchasing gifts for our children and families—thank you!
UPS
We are grateful for the donation of the moving vans that we use to store our Red Bags on delivery day.
Ball event center
Thank you for hosting our delivery day, and special thanks to the cities of Sugar Creek, MO, and Lake Waukomis, MO, for all of their help in distributing the red bags to various Kansas City Metro area social service agencies.
Golf tournament
A big thank you to Chance Rinkol, host of the Red Bags Charity Golf Tournament in 2021, 2022, and 2023. These events raised thousands of dollars for Red Bags!
A&M Printers
Thank you for all of your help over the years with our printing needs.
Social Services
We are grateful to the Kansas City metro area social service agencies that gather the children's holiday wishes and provide us with everything we need (and more).
Walmart Supercenter #577
The generous grant from store #577, located at 13600 S. Alden in Olathe, was used to purchase bike helmets. Your donation is greatly appreciated!