· Private foundation
Henry P Kendall Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE | $500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE | $310,894 |
| THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND | $300,000 |
| VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND | $275,000 |
| COMMERCIAL FISHERIES CENTER OF RI | $200,000 |
| SKOWHEGAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP | $200,000 |
| FORK FOOD LAB | $193,369 |
| INTERVALE CENTER INC | $150,000 |
| CITY OF NEW BEDFORD | $125,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS | $124,420 |
| MAINE COAST FISHERMAN'S ASSOCIATION | $120,000 |
| GROWING PLACES GARDEN PROJECTS INC | $119,885 |
| VERMONT FARM TO SCHOOL INC | $108,774 |
| SHELBURNE FARMS | $100,000 |
| RHODE ISLAND DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE | $70,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $151k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of Henry P Kendall Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +52% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.
43 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TUTHE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INC7× · 2017–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +64%
THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +44%- VSVERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +79%
Funded once
RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGNone grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue +11%- UOUNIVERSITY OF VERMONTone grant, 2019 · $250k
- UOUniversity of Massachusetts Dartmouth Foundationone grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue -13%
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.
Mass farmers markets partners wtih farmers, consumers, and communities to improve the health of individuals, strenghten community vitality, and enhance local farm viability through farmers markets.
NOFA-NH actively promotes organic, regenerative, ecologically sound farming, gardening, eating, and land care practices for healthy communities. NOFA-NH helps people build local, just, and sustainable food systems.
Focusmaine propels the growth of maine's most promising industries and transforms maine into a hub for top talent.
Advancing relationships among farmers, chefs, and consumers to grow markets and eat more locally grown food.
Maine Farmland Trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.
Our mission is to educate, organize and advocate for food and farming systems to become economically prosperous, ecologically sound and socially equitable.
We envision a food system that reflects the diverse communities of our region in leadership, ownership, and priorities. all farmers lowers barriers to enable refugee and immigrant farmers to grow resilient community farms through access to…
MFFM's mission is to cultivate a vibrant, sustainable, farmers' market community as a vital part of Maine's local food network. The federation works with farmers, consumers and communities to make wholesome, locally-grown food available to…
To connect people to the land to build community and inspire lifelong stewardship. land's sake combines ecologically-sound land management practices with hands-on environmental education to model how public open space can be used and…
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…
To gather and share quality food and nurture partnerships so that no one in vermont will go hungry.
How this is measured
106 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. 106 of the 138 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 THE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
- Who funds BOSTON PUBLIC MARKET ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN MERCK FUND ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Healthy Communities of the Capital Area ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FOODCORPS INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN FARMING INSTITUTE OF BOSTONINC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD FOOD SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN ↗
- Who funds University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Foundation ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Maritime Academy Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR BUSINESS EQUITY INC ↗
- Who funds SKOWHEGAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND FOOD POLICY COUNCIL ↗
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: Point32health Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation Inc · Claneil Foundation Inc · High Meadows Fund Inc · New England Grassroots Environment Fund Inc · Barr Foundation · The Vermont Community Foundation · The John Merck Fund · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Henry P Kendall Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henry P Kendall Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc: 51% of income from government
- Growing Places Garden Project Inc: 49% of income from government
- Click Inc: 44% of income from government
- Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture Inc: 35% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont: 31% of income from government
- Salvation Farms Inc: 26% of income from government
- Retreat Farm Ltd: 25% of income from government
- Nipmuc Indian Development Corp: 24% of income from government
- Centerboard Inc: 23% of income from government
- Foodcorps Inc: 21% of income from government
- Boston Area Gleaners Inc: 20% of income from government
- Food Connects: 15% of income from government
- Just Roots Inc: 15% of income from government
- Rise Above Foundation Inc: 14% of income from government
- Eastie Farm Inc: 13% of income from government
- Intervale Center Inc: 13% of income from government
- Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc: 12% of income from government
- Commonwealth Kitchen Inc: 9% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
- Vermont Farm-to-School Inc: 7% of income from government
- Mill City Grows Inc: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Roots Rising Inc: 6% of income from government
- Vital Communities Inc: 5% of income from government
- Yellow Farmhouse Education Center Inc: 5% of income from government
- The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc: 4% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
- Food for Free Committee Inc: 3% of income from government
- Babson College: 3% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms: 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
- Resist Inc: 2% of income from government
- Sonrisas Inc: 1% of income from government
- Western New England University: 1% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
- The Marion Institute Inc: 1% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 1% of income from government
- Boston Ballet Inc: 0% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
- Island Grown Initiative Ltd: 0% of income from government
- Migrant Justice Inc: 0% of income from government
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