· Private foundation
Ethel and Allyn Kendis Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k20 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $32k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEV | $11,200 |
| THE TEMPLE - TIFERETH ISRAEL | $10,400 |
| NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH | $10,000 |
| MONTEFIORE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MUSICAL ARTS ASS'N OF CLEVELAND | $2,500 |
| PLAYHOUSE SQUARE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| HOLDEN FORESTS & GARDENS | $2,500 |
| CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| MORIKAMI MUSEUM & JAPANESE GARDEN | $1,500 |
| THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART | $1,000 |
| KIDS CHANCE OF OHIO | $1,000 |
| UNITED JEWISH CEMETERIES | $1,000 |
| ISRAEL TENNIS & EDUCATION CENTER | $1,000 |
| CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
The Cleveland Orchestra inspires and enriches lives by creating extraordinary musical experiences at the highest level of artistic excellence.
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.
Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.
Further the charitable, educational, and religious purposes of the jewish federation of cleveland including the preservation of jewish cemeteries
Enhance the lives of all residents of greater cleveland, now and for generations to come, by working together with our donors to build community endowment, address needs through grantmaking, and provide leadership on key community issues.
To promote the rule of law and the legal profession by supporting, empowering and celebrating our members and the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cleveland Society for the Blind and the most unlike its peers is The United Jewish Cemeteries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 23 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 NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds MONTEFIORE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Playhouse Square Foundation ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The Morikami Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED JEWISH CEMETERIES ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE GATHERING PLACE ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ethel and Allyn Kendis Family Charitable Trust 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.