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Ethel and Allyn Kendis Family Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Ethel and Allyn Kendis Family Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$39k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$819k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND$10,000
MALTZ MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE$4,500
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW$3,000
HOLDEN FORESTS & GARDENS$2,500
MUSICAL ARTS ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND$2,500
PLAYHOUSE SQUARE FOUNDATION$2,500
MORIKAMI MUSEUM & JAPANESE GARDEN$2,500
THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART$2,000
CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER$2,000
CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$2,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH$1,200
UNITED JEWISH CEMETERIES$1,000
THE TEMPLE - TIFERETH ISRAEL$800
THE GREATER CLEVELAND FOODBANK$500
HOLOCAUST MUSEUM$500
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $4k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE GATHERING PLACE: $500 → 17%THE GATHERING PLACE: $500 → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $2k → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$51k · 14 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
9

Total granted

$51k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+13%

Still filing today

71%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEducationAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PS
    Playhouse Square Foundation
    2× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +42%
  • CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +39%
  • CZ
    CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    2× · 2020–2025 · $4k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • TJ
    THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEV
    one grant, 2020 · $11k
  • NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH
    2× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +13%
  • MF
    MONTEFIORE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -89%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati
Philanthropy
2
Foundation for Cincinnati Jewish Seniors formerly Jewish Home of Cincinnati Inc
Health
3
The Musical Arts Association

The Cleveland Orchestra inspires and enriches lives by creating extraordinary musical experiences at the highest level of artistic excellence.

Arts & Culture
4
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
5
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Cleveland Medical Library Association
Education
7
Commission On Cemetery Preservation

Further the charitable, educational, and religious purposes of the jewish federation of cleveland including the preservation of jewish cemeteries

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8
Hebrew Academy of Cleveland

The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and…

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9
The Contemporary Jewish Museum

The contemporary jewish museum (the cjm) makes the diversity of the jewish experience relevant for a twenty-first-century audience through innovative exhibitions and programs that educate, challenge, and inspire.

Arts & Culture
10
National Center for Jewish Filminc

The national center for jewish film is a unique, independent nonprofit motion picture archive, distributor, resource center and exhibitor. ncjf's ongoing mission is the collection, preservation and exhibition of films with artistic and…

Arts & Culture
11
Mesorah Heritage Foundation

The foundation's mission is to research, locate, translate, and create jewish religious, literary, biblical, and talmudic works for religious, scholarly and cultural purposes for the general public.

Arts & Culture
12
Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc

Through the development of community-wide financial support, planning and allocations, the mission of the milwaukee jewish federation is to ensure the continuity of the jewish people, to enhance the quality of jewish life and to build a…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Menorah Park Foundation; 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.
03the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
7/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEV: $11,200 · OtherTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVTHE TEMPLE - TIFERETH ISRAEL: $11,200 · OtherTHE TEMPLE - TIFERETH ISRAELHOLDEN FORESTS & GARDENS: $5,000 · OtherHOLDEN FORESTS & GARDENSMUSICAL ARTS ASS'N OF CLEVELAND: $5,000 · OtherMUSICAL ARTS ASS'N OF CLEVELANDTHE UNITED JEWISH CEMETERIES: $2,000 · Other+9 more: $7,500 · Other+9 morePlayhouse Square Foundation: $5,000 · Arts & CulturePlayhouse Square Fo…The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage: $4,500 · Arts & CultureThe Maltz Museum of…The Morikami Inc: $4,000 · Arts & CultureThe Morikami IncCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $3,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF…JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $10,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION …MONTEFIORE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyMONTEFIORE FOUNDAT…JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $1,200 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION …NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $10,000 · HealthNATIONAL JE…CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $4,000 · AnimalsCLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $3,000 · Human ServicesTHE GATHERING PLACE: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$41,900Arts & Culture$16,500Philanthropy$16,200Health$10,000Education$5,000Animals$4,000Human Services$4,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEFIORE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPlayhouse Square Foundation: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage: $4,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Morikami Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNITED JEWISH CEMETERIES: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GATHERING PLACE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ethel and Allyn Kendis Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ethel and Allyn Kendis Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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