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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.

$3.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$14MEducation$5.3MCommunity Improvement$5.3MEnvironment$1.4MHealth$572kInternational$500kPublic Benefit$198kAnimals$195kOther$0
02FY2024 · 39 grants

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
$50,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$97M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

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.

area typical 9%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $10k → 16%RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%GROWING PLACES GARDEN PROJECTS INC: $120k → 11%PRESENTE MAINE: $10k → 7%AFRICAN ALLIANCE OF RHODE ISLAND: $10k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
CT
RI
UT
VA
AZ
DC
GA
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.
04

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.

Henry P Kendall Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.2% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21M · 43 repeat orgs$6.5M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
75

Total granted

$21M
$5.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+21%

Still filing today

72%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionEducationEnvironmentArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TU
    THE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +64%
  • THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +44%
  • VS
    VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN
    one grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue +11%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT
    one grant, 2019 · $250k
  • UO
    University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Foundation
    one 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.

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 Federation of Massachusetts Farmers and Gardeners Markets Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
2
Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Hampshire

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.

Food & Nutrition
3
Foundation for a Strong Maine Economy

Focusmaine propels the growth of maine's most promising industries and transforms maine into a hub for top talent.

Community Improvement
4
Vermont Fresh Network Corporation

Advancing relationships among farmers, chefs, and consumers to grow markets and eat more locally grown food.

Community Improvement
5
Maine Farmland Trust

Maine Farmland Trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.

Food & Nutrition
6
Food Action

Our mission is to educate, organize and advocate for food and farming systems to become economically prosperous, ecologically sound and socially equitable.

—
7
All Farmers Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
8
Maine Federation of Farmers Markets

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…

Food & Nutrition
9
Land's Sake Inc

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…

Environment
10
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
11
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc

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…

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12
Vermont Foodbank

To gather and share quality food and nurture partnerships so that no one in vermont will go hungry.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eastie Farm Inc; the most unlike its peers is The John Merck Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
101/106
Grantees still filing
70/106
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $970,894 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRESPRINGFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $727,500 · OtherSPRINGFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOLSTHE JOHN MERCK FUND: $550,000 · OtherTHE JOHN MERCK FUNDTHE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC: $424,420 · OtherTHE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSAC…BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $413,500 · OtherBOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLSFRANKLIN COUNTY COMMUNITY DEV CORP: $280,000 · OtherHealthy Communities of the Capital Area: $500,000 · OtherHealthy Communities of the Capi…+64 more: $3,786,237 · Other+64 moreTHE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INC: $2,963,602 · Food & NutritionTHE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE …FARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC: $649,750 · Food & NutritionFARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND IN…FOODCORPS INC: $465,500 · Food & NutritionFOODCORPS INCBOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC: $360,000 · Food & NutritionBOSTON AREA GLEANERS INCHARTFORD FOOD SYSTEM INC: $283,600 · Food & Nutrition+20 more: $1,640,993 · Food & Nutrition+20 moreUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $1,415,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEW HA…UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC: $604,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MASSAC…THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $481,736 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF THE …THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $431,300 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF CO…TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $399,705 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON C…Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $250,000 · EducationRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN: $250,000 · EducationUniversity of Massachusetts Dartmouth Foundation: $250,000 · EducationWESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY: $250,000 · EducationMassachusetts Maritime Academy Foundation Inc: $250,000 · Education+9 more: $513,512 · Education+9 moreTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $2,579,500 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SECTOR NEW…COMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INC: $349,927 · Community ImprovementCOMMONWEALTH KIT…THE URBAN FARMING INSTITUTE OF BOSTONINC: $325,588 · Community ImprovementTHE URBAN FARMIN…BROWN UNIVERSITY: $250,000 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITYSKOWHEGAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP: $200,000 · Community ImprovementVITAL COMMUNITIES INC: $199,929 · Community Improvement+3 more: $155,782 · Community ImprovementSHELBURNE FARMS: $831,000 · EnvironmentNEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND INC: $550,000 · EnvironmentFork Food Lab: $193,369 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY INC: $125,000 · EnvironmentPOCASSET POKANOKET LAND TRUST INC: $120,300 · EnvironmentMAINE COAST FISHERMENS ASSN: $120,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $75,125 · Environment+4 more: $116,000 · EnvironmentVERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC: $1,436,500 · EmploymentINTERVALE CENTER INC: $150,000 · EmploymentBOSTON PUBLIC MARKET ASSOCIATION INC: $760,000 · Public Benefit
Other$7,652,551Food & Nutrition$6,363,445Education$5,095,253Community Improvement$4,060,726Environment$2,130,794Employment$1,586,500Public Benefit$760,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INC: $2,963,602 over 7y, 18% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $2,579,500 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetVERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC: $1,436,500 over 8y, 18% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $1,415,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSHELBURNE FARMS: $831,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetBOSTON PUBLIC MARKET ASSOCIATION INC: $760,000 over 2y, 40% of budgetFARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC: $649,750 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC: $604,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE JOHN MERCK FUND: $550,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetNEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND INC: $550,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetHealthy Communities of the Capital Area: $500,000 over 6y, 22% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $481,736 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOODCORPS INC: $465,500 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $431,300 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC: $424,420 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $399,705 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC: $360,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INC: $349,927 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetTHE URBAN FARMING INSTITUTE OF BOSTONINC: $325,588 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetHARTFORD FOOD SYSTEM INC: $283,600 over 6y, 16% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Massachusetts Dartmouth Foundation: $250,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMassachusetts Maritime Academy Foundation Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR BUSINESS EQUITY INC: $200,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetRHODE ISLAND FOOD POLICY COUNCIL: $200,000 over 4y, 46% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWayside Food Programs: $199,950 over 1y, 19% of budgetVITAL COMMUNITIES INC: $199,929 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetCLICK INC: $199,856 over 1y, 30% of budgetFOOD CONNECTS: $199,788 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetFork Food Lab: $193,369 over 1y, 12% of budgetGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $190,900 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT: $178,034 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetSalvation Farms Inc: $168,875 over 1y, 19% of budgetCOMMUNITY INVOLVED IN SUSTAINING AGRICULTURE INC: $155,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetINTERVALE CENTER INC: $150,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetRed Tomato Inc: $128,012 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetMAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION: $125,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY INC: $125,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetPOCASSET POKANOKET LAND TRUST INC: $120,300 over 1y, 15% of budgetMAINE COAST FISHERMENS ASSN: $120,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetGROWING PLACES GARDEN PROJECT INC: $119,885 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $110,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL INC: $108,774 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetADDISON COUNTY RELOCALIZATION NETWORK INC: $95,782 over 1y, 22% 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.

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.

Point32health Foundation IncMA36.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Henry P Kendall Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 138 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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