· Private foundation
Edward & Dorothy Kendall Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $106k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Edisto Island Open Land Trust | $105,911 |
| SC Historical Society | $25,000 |
| Society of Cincinatti | $20,000 |
| Broad River Arts Center | $20,000 |
| YMCA Camp Greenville | $10,000 |
| St Francis Episcopal Church | $10,000 |
| Homeless No More | $5,000 |
| Red Door Community Inc | $5,000 |
| St Johns Episcopal Church Congaree | $5,000 |
| St Thomas Episcopal Church | $5,000 |
| Central Carolina Community Found | $5,000 |
| Candyman Homeless Outreach | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- EIEDISTO ISLAND OPEN LAND TRUST6× · 2020–2025 · $608k · revenue +575%
- CHCANDYMAN HOMELESS OUTREACH4× · 2021–2025 · $8k · revenue +20%
- CFColumbia Film Society2× · 2022–2024 · $3k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- SMSt Matthews Parishone grant, 2022 · $25k
- CSCENTRAL SC HABITAT FOR HUMANITYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $14k · revenue +45%
- DEDAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -5%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Communityworks is a publicly supported organization and certified community development financial institution that provides funding to promote affordable housing and community development to help stabilize low wealth families and…
To protect and preserve buildings of architectural and historial significance in South Carolina.
Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.
The organization's primary mission is a grassroots initiative that advances sustainable development of natural, cultural and historic resources for enhanced quality of life and economic revitalization of communities in south carolina.
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
Protect and conserve land, natural areas, rural landscapes, family farms and historic places within north carolina's heartland
East cooper land trust is a community-supported organization devoted to conserving land to benefit people and the environment both now and forever.
The Community Foundation's mission is strengthening community by connecting people, resources, and needs.
To protect land and water forever, nurture relationships between people and place, and connect conservation to community.
Through responsible stewardship of our unique ecological resource, we provide inclusive opportunities for meaningful connection, discovery, and education in nature.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Carolina Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Candyman Homeless Outreach. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds EDISTO ISLAND OPEN LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds CONGAREE LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL SC HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds DAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANDYMAN HOMELESS OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds Homeless No More Inc ↗
- Who funds RED DOOR COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds Columbia Film Society ↗
- Who funds THE PALMETTO OPERA ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Edward & Dorothy Kendall Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.