Grant/Scholarship History
| 2024 - 99 - $500 Classroom Grants and 14 - $500 PEERS Grants | 2023 - 127 - $500 Classroom Grants and 27 - $500 PEERS Grants |
| 2022 - 124 - $500 Classroom Grants and 21 - $500 PEERS Grants | 2021 - 120 - $500 Classroom Grants and 11 - $500 PEERS Grants |
| 2020 - 102 - $500 Classroom Grants and 10 - $500 PEERS Grants | 2019 - 103 - $500 Classroom Grants |
| 2018 - 98 - $500 Classroom Grants | 2017 - 84 - $500 Classroom Grants |
| 2016 - 72 - $500 Classroom Grants | 2015 - 56 - $500 Classroom Grants |
| 2014 - 45 - $500 Classroom Grants | 2013 - 44 - $500 Classroom Grants |
| 2012 - 15 - $500 Classroom Grants | 2011 - 16 - $500 Classroom Grants |
| 2010 - 7 - $500 Classroom Grants | 2009 - 5 - $500 Classroom Grants |
| 2008 - 4 - $1,000 Scholarships and 1 - $500 Classroom Grants | 2007 - 16 - $1,000 Scholarships and 4 - $500 Classroom Grants |
| 2006 - 11 - $1,000 Scholarships and 3 - $500 Classroom Grants | 2005 - 10 - $1,000 Scholarships and 3 - $500 Classroom Grants |
| 2004 - 10 - $1,000 Scholarships and 1 - $500 Scholarship | 2003 - 5 - $1,000 Scholarships |
Our History
The Missouri Retired Teachers Association Foundation (MRTF) is a tax exempt 501(c)(3) charitable corporation devoted to raising funds to carry out certain charitable, educational, scientific and literary purposes of the Missouri Retired Teachers Association and Public School Personnel (MRTA). Since being approved by the MRTA Board of Directors, the Internal Revenue Service and the Missouri Department of Revenue, the Foundation has had as its motto, “Honoring the Past and Giving to the Future.”
The Foundation is very young, established in 2001. The Foundation, partnering with MRTA, embarked on a major building campaign to provide a permanent office building/classroom for the Foundation and MRTA. Many fundraisers were organized to accomplish this goal. Some of them included selling patio bricks, entryway floor tiles, wall tiles, quilt raffles, Branson raffle tickets, mailing labels, silent auctions, year-end ask letters, and cumulative donor recognition levels.
The Building Committee worked for several years and finally engaged an Architect to begin drawing up plans. A few key dates follow. In a joint MRTA/MRTF Board meeting on August 19, 2008, a motion was made and accepted by unanimous vote to accept the bid of $636,400 from Huebert Builders for the office facility. Included in this vote was permission to apply for a loan of $400,000 for 5 years at 6% interest. The loan date was October 22, 2008. The Open House— Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for the new facility was held on September 21, 2009. The Promissory Note was paid on July 11, 2012. The MORTGAGE was BURNED at the Annual Meeting on September 12, 2012.
The year 2013 was very exciting for the Foundation. The Board of Directors voted in September to launch a special fundraising campaign to install an elevator in the Office Facility. The vote was unanimous. This fundraising campaign lasted into the middle of 2014. Total cost of the project was $107,000. The money was raised and the elevator was installed in May of 2014. No money had to be borrowed. The addition of the elevator will help MRTA meet the mobility needs of our membership statewide. Plans are being made to use the lower level CLASSROOM AREA of the Office Facility more and more in the future.
The MRTA-F GRANT PROGRAM continues to be the major emphasis for our fundraising activity. Grants are provided to both classroom teachers and to support staff for resources or materials used for the benefit of Missouri's public school students.