The Salvation Army Kansas and Western Missouri Division is headquartered at 3637 Broadway in Kansas City, Missouri 64111. The division covers the entire state of Kansas plus the greater Kansas City area of Missouri. Major Kelly Collins leads the division; she has served in the Salvation Army for 35 years across 11 different postings, including most recently as Divisional Commander for the Midland Division in Peoria, Illinois. The division oversees the region's largest non-governmental provider of social services including 22 community corps centers, two Booth Manor apartments for seniors, and five shelters. The K&WM Division operates corps in Wichita, Topeka, Kansas City Kansas, Salina, Lawrence, Hutchinson, Manhattan, Pittsburg, and many other communities across the two-state region. Rural Kansas communities (particularly in the western and southern parts of the state) rely on Salvation Army service units as the primary organized emergency assistance.
The year-round work in Kansas and Western Missouri looks much like Salvation Army operations everywhere: emergency rent and utility assistance, food pantries, overnight shelter, addiction recovery, after-school and summer youth programs, holiday assistance, and disaster response. What sets this division apart is the institutional depth in Kansas City (one of the longest-running Salvation Army cities in the country, since 1882), the rural Kansas reach where the Salvation Army is often the only organized emergency assistance available, and the specific programmatic mix that includes two Booth Manor senior apartments and five shelters distributed across the two-state region.
Kansas has a particular economic geography. Wichita is the largest city and the aviation manufacturing capital of the country (Boeing, Spirit AeroSystems, Cessna, Beechcraft, Learjet historically), with the boom-and-bust cycles tied to aerospace manufacturing affecting the local emergency assistance demand. Topeka is the state capital and a smaller mid-sized city. Kansas City Kansas (Wyandotte County) is a separate metropolitan area from Kansas City Missouri; the K&WM Division administers both sides of the state line. Western Kansas is overwhelmingly rural agricultural country where the Salvation Army's local corps and service extension programs cover communities other nonprofits cannot reach.
The Salvation Army Kansas City has been an active community institution since the 1880s. The 80th anniversary of the Kansas City Salvation Army was celebrated in November 1945 at the Municipal Auditorium. The Kansas City Missouri side of the metro area includes the divisional headquarters at 3637 Broadway plus multiple corps community centers, the Kansas City Adult Rehabilitation Center for residential addiction recovery, emergency shelter, and food pantry operations. The Kansas City Salvation Army Red Kettle campaign is one of the largest in the division.
Major Kelly Collins serves as divisional leader from the Broadway headquarters. She has served in the Salvation Army since being commissioned along with her husband Major Jesse Collins 35 years ago. Major Kelly has served in 11 different postings with the Salvation Army, including most recently as the Divisional Commander for the Midland Division headquartered in Peoria, Illinois. Her experience spans multiple metropolitan areas and program models, giving her perspective on how the Kansas and Western Missouri Division compares with peer divisions elsewhere in the Central Territory.
The Salvation Army Wichita serves Sedgwick County and the surrounding south-central Kansas region. Wichita is the largest city in Kansas and the largest single Salvation Army operation in the state outside Kansas City Kansas. The Wichita corps operates emergency shelter at 350 N Market Street, multiple food pantries including one at 110 Presto Lane, after-school programs, holiday assistance, and emergency rent and utility assistance.
During SNAP disruptions in fall 2025, the Salvation Army Wichita was cited in local media coverage as one of the immediate options for families facing benefit loss. The Presto Lane food pantry operates on regular schedules and takes walk-ins for food box assistance. The Wichita Salvation Army's institutional capacity reflects the city's longstanding aerospace manufacturing economy and the recurring economic cycles that affect Wichita's working-class neighborhoods.
The Salvation Army Topeka serves Shawnee County and the state capital region. Topeka's corps operates emergency assistance, food pantry, and after-school programming. The Topeka operations reflect the city's mixed economy of state government, education (Washburn University), agricultural processing, and small-scale manufacturing.
The Salvation Army Kansas City Kansas serves Wyandotte County. Unlike Kansas City Missouri (Jackson County), Kansas City Kansas is a separate municipal jurisdiction with its own poverty profile and emergency assistance needs. The Kansas City Kansas operations include the Booth Manor at 1331 N 75th Place (phone 913-299-4822), one of the division's two Booth Manor senior apartment facilities. The Lawrence Corps serves Douglas County including the University of Kansas community and surrounding rural counties.
The 22 community corps centers across the division include Wichita, Topeka, Kansas City Kansas, Lawrence, Salina, Hutchinson, Manhattan, Pittsburg, and Kansas City Missouri plus 13 more smaller community corps across the two-state region. The corps in smaller Kansas cities (Salina, Hutchinson, Manhattan, Pittsburg, Dodge City, Garden City, Hays, Liberal, and others) handle local emergency assistance, food pantry, holiday programs, and Red Kettle fundraising.
Rural Kansas Service Extension programs cover communities where corps cannot be sustained. The Service Extension model uses volunteer boards in rural towns to deliver Salvation Army services in places without full corps facilities. Rural Kansas Service Extension communities are particularly important because of the state's enormous geographic area; many western Kansas counties have no other organized emergency assistance besides what comes through the Salvation Army Service Extension network.
The two Booth Manor apartments in the K&WM Division provide subsidized housing for low-income seniors. The Kansas City Kansas Booth Manor at 1331 N 75th Place (phone 913-299-4822) serves residents of Kansas City Kansas. The second Booth Manor location serves another part of the division. The Booth Manor model is named after William and Catherine Booth (founders of the Salvation Army) and represents the Salvation Army's longstanding work providing affordable housing for seniors who cannot otherwise afford market-rate apartments.
The Booth Manor apartments are restricted-fund operations with their own program-level financial reporting because of the housing-program model. Residents typically meet income eligibility requirements; rent is calculated as a percentage of resident income. Onsite case management and supportive services help residents maintain housing stability and access social services as needed.
The five shelter facilities operated by the K&WM Division provide emergency overnight shelter for individuals and families experiencing homelessness. The Wichita 350 N Market shelter is the largest. Kansas City Missouri and Kansas City Kansas each operate emergency shelter facilities. Topeka has a shelter operation. The fifth facility is located in another division corps community. Shelter capacity varies seasonally; winter overflow capacity expands during cold-weather emergencies.
The shelter model combines emergency overnight bed availability with case management, meal service, and connection to longer-term housing resources. Shelter staff coordinate with local housing authorities, mental health providers, addiction recovery programs, and other community resources to help residents transition toward stable housing. The five shelters handle thousands of bed-nights annually across the division.
When SNAP benefits paused in November 2025 during the federal shutdown, Kansas had roughly 200,000 residents on the program. The Salvation Army Kansas and Western Missouri Division corps activated additional food distribution. The Wichita Salvation Army moved to multiple distributions per week through the Presto Lane pantry and others. Topeka, Kansas City Kansas, Lawrence, and other Kansas corps ran additional pantries through November and December.
Most of the food handed out was paid for by Red Kettle donations from December 2024. The Kansas Food Bank in Wichita, Harvesters Community Food Network in Kansas City, Second Harvest Community Food Bank in St. Joseph (serving northwest Missouri and parts of eastern Kansas), and other regional food banks all reported significantly higher demand during the freeze. The Salvation Army Kansas corps coordinated with these food banks on overflow distribution.
Cash gifts at the K&WM Division site or the national salvationarmyusa.org can be designated to a specific corps within the division. The K&WM Division does not file its own Form 990 because the Central Territory files a consolidated Form 990 under EIN 36-2167079 covering 11 Midwestern states. The Salvation Army national overhead ratio runs at roughly 14 percent (82 cents per dollar to program services, 11 cents to fundraising, 7 cents to management).
Mailing address for checks is The Salvation Army Kansas and Western Missouri Division, 3637 Broadway, Kansas City, MO 64111. Specify the location you would like to designate in the memo line. Online donations through the division website allow designation to specific corps. Damon Bryant serves as Strategic Communications contact for the division at (816) 968-0367.
Red Kettle dollars from late November through Christmas Eve stay in the corps where the kettle was placed. The Kansas City Red Kettle Campaign is one of the largest in the state. Kettles in Wichita stay in Wichita. Kettles in Topeka stay in Topeka. Service Extension Red Kettle campaigns in rural Kansas communities keep donations local.
Furniture, clothing, working appliances, and household goods go to Family Stores across the division. Free pickup is available for larger items at satruck.org or by calling the store. Sale revenue funds the Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center program; the Kansas City ARC is the primary K&WM Division ARC facility. Vehicle donations through Cars Helping Families; net proceeds fund local programs.
Red Kettle bell ringing from late November through Christmas Eve is the largest single volunteer role. Sign up at registertoring.com, pick a host store and shift, show up. The K&WM Division needs thousands of two-hour slots filled each Christmas season at Kansas City metro retailers, Wichita malls, and commercial corridors across both states.
The Booth Manor apartments have ongoing needs for resident companionship and program support volunteers. The five shelter facilities have direct support volunteer needs including meal service, evening intake support, and ESL or basic education tutoring. The Kansas City Adult Rehabilitation Center has specific volunteer opportunities for peer mentor and reentry support roles (these positions require additional screening).
Year-round opportunities at corps across the division include Family Store sorting, food pantry packing, after-school program tutoring at corps with kids' programming, and holiday toy distribution. Disaster volunteer roles include canteen volunteering for Kansas tornadoes (which occur from March through September across most of the state), warehouse work, distribution support, and emotional and spiritual care. Disaster roles require one or two training sessions before deployment. For corporate teams of 10 to 50 people, the K&WM Division development office in Kansas City can coordinate group volunteer days. Kansas-based companies (Spirit AeroSystems, Koch Industries, Cargill Meat Solutions, Westar Energy, others) run repeat corporate volunteer programs with the Salvation Army.
The K&WM Division is part of the Salvation Army Central Territory, which has its territorial headquarters in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. The Central Territory files its own Form 990 covering 11 Midwestern states under EIN 36-2167079. K&WM Division-specific financial reporting is consolidated at the divisional level.
The Salvation Army National Corporation reported roughly $5.8 billion in annual revenue across all US operations. National overhead ratios run consistently at roughly 14 percent. Program services receive 82 cents per dollar; fundraising costs 11 cents; management and general 7 cents. Charity Navigator gives the Salvation Army four stars; CharityWatch rates it favorably. The Booth Manor apartments and the Kansas City Adult Rehabilitation Center have their own program-level accounting because of the housing-program and addiction-recovery models.
For pure food access dollars, Kansas has solid food bank infrastructure. The Kansas Food Bank in Wichita covers 85 counties across the state. Harvesters Community Food Network in Kansas City covers 26 counties across northwest Missouri and northeast Kansas. Second Harvest Community Food Bank in St. Joseph covers 19 counties across northwest Missouri and northeast Kansas. These food banks convert donated dollars at roughly 1:7 through bulk purchasing power.
The Salvation Army's specific advantages in the K&WM Division: institutional depth (Kansas City since 1882, one of the older Salvation Army cities in the country), the two Booth Manor senior apartments (subsidized housing model no other Kansas nonprofit operates at comparable scale), the five shelter facilities distributed across the two-state region, geographic reach into rural Kansas through the 22 community corps centers plus Service Extension programs, and breadth of services in a single corps (rent, utilities, food, shelter, holiday assistance).
Practical framing: for maximum food-per-dollar in Kansas, food banks win on math. For senior housing (Booth Manor), shelter capacity (five facilities), rural Service Extension reach into communities with no other organized emergency assistance, and integrated emergency response across the entire division territory, the Salvation Army K&WM Division is one of the few organizations operating at that scale.
Last updated May 2026. Kansas and Western Missouri Division headquarters (3637 Broadway, Kansas City MO 64111, phone 816-756-1455), Major Kelly Collins as Divisional Leader with 35 years of service in 11 different postings most recently as Divisional Commander for the Midland Division in Peoria IL, husband Major Jesse Collins, 22 community corps centers + 2 Booth Manor apartments for seniors + 5 shelters, Lt. Shannell Johnson as Divisional Youth Secretary and Divisional Candidate Secretary, Major Merrill Powers as South Central Area Commander, from the K&WM Division Who We Are page (centralusa.salvationarmy.org/mokan/who-we-are/). Kansas City KS Booth Manor at 1331 N 75th Place phone 913-299-4822 from the Google search snippet on Salvation Army Missouri. Wichita food pantry at 110 Presto Lane reference from the largestcharities.com Kansas state-page. Kansas City Salvation Army 80th anniversary in November 1945 at Municipal Auditorium from the digital.lib.ku.edu archival material. Damon Bryant as Strategic Communications contact at 816-968-0367 from the Salvation Army USA media contacts page. Kansas SNAP participation (~200,000 residents) from USDA Food and Nutrition Service November 2025 communications. Central Territory headquarters in Hoffman Estates IL and Central Territory EIN 36-2167079 from prospeo.io company profile. National revenue figure (~5.8 billion dollars) from Salvation Army National Corporation 2023 published annual report. Overhead ratio figures from Salvation Army National annual report and Charity Navigator. We are not affiliated with the Salvation Army and receive no compensation for this listing. Errors: [email protected]