tent drop
free tents - kansas city
An effort to provide free tents, sleeping bags etc. for unhoused neighbors.
An effort to provide free tents, sleeping bags etc. for unhoused neighbors.
12/1/2025 update: A free tent day could be in the works this holiday season, pending some recent fundraising plans - stay tuned for more details coming soon!
Want to collaborate, donate gear (new or lightly used clean, fully functional 1-5 person tents and sleeping bags), or sponsor a Free Tent Day? Contact the project to help expand this effort.
If you're part of a nonprofit, faith group, union, or org and want to help - whether by donating, advising, or sponsoring a Tent Day - the project would love to work with you. The focus is on building local, sustainable relationships within the community.
You can also donate securely through PayPal or Venmo, or Bitcoin (just scroll down to the "Donate" section). Anything received will be used to purchase gear first, and secondarily to fund transport and outreach.
Email: hello@tentdrop.kcmo.xyz
Text: (816) 559-8789 (please do not call this number)
Meetup Area (appointments or announced Free Tent Days)
Donate securely through PayPal, Venmo, or Bitcoin. All funds go directly to purchasing gear and supporting outreach.
This is a grassroots mutual aid project to provide free tents, sleeping bags, and essential supplies to unhoused/unsheltered neighbors, based in the east side of Kansas City, Missouri. No red tape. No judgment. Just a portable shelter, to rest and store belongings in, when other options aren't an option.
It might be easy to overlook tents and sleeping bags once the weather warms up, but the need doesn't simply go away when spring comes. Gear wears out. People arrive new, summer storms come hard, and authorities can be not only callous and uncaring, but outright destructive of encampments and belongings.
Perhaps you've noticed, if you live or travel in certain areas of town - this need is constant, and growing - as of 2023, HUD estimated that almost 96% of homeless people in Kansas City went unsheltered. Right now in 2025, city leaders fear the homeless population here could double over the next four years.
Why is this project important? To the organizer, this is personal. They live here, have given what they can, and have seen the difference it makes. A tent isn't everything, but it's something. It's one night not in the rain. One day out of the sun. An hour to yourself. A way to survive for one more week, month, or year.
All funds go toward gear, transport, outreach and, hopefully someday, a reliable vehicle with which to serve unhoused neighbors in further areas of the city. For now, tents are delivered personally, on foot or bicycle.
