· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Central Carolina Community Found | $5,000 |
| Homeless No More | $5,000 |
| Red Door Community Inc | $5,000 |
| St Johns Episcopal Church Congaree | $5,000 |
| St Thomas Episcopal Church | $5,000 |
| Candyman Homeless Outreach | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +3%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds DAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CANDYMAN HOMELESS OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds RED DOOR COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds Homeless No More Inc ↗
- Who funds Columbia Film Society ↗
- Who funds THE PALMETTO OPERA ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Edward & Dorothy Kendall Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward & Dorothy Kendall Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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