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Kendacar Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $88k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $448k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PORT AUSTIN REEF LIGHT ASSOCATION | $210,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC INDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| PORT AUSTIN FIRE DEPARTMENT | $88,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MCHENRY COUNTY | $50,000 |
| CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY DISTRICT 47 | $48,000 |
| THE HOPE FOR FAMILIES CENTER | $20,000 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| INDIAN RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| MAX MCGRAW WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% 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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 3 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, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $398k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TCTREASURE COAST FOOD BANK INC4× · 2017–2023 · $112k · revenue +202%
- CLCRYSTAL LAKE FOOD PANTRY INC3× · 2020–2022 · $102k · revenue +16%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MCHENRY COUNTY INC2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- SRSenior Resource Association Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +69%
- CACOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES FOR CHILDRENone grant, 2023 · $20k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2021 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To ensure the availability and affordability of high quality early childhood and family support programs for children of income eligible working families in indian river county.
To lead the community wide effort to end hunger in eastern iowa and western illinois. we will do this by leveraging partnerships to help people in need to stabilize their lives, engaging the public on hunger issues, advocating on behalf of…
Providing food to needy families in the illinois valley area.
Our mission is food, resources, and faith to build a stronger community.
To identify solutions that will protect and enhance the lives of indian river county children, individuals, families, and seniors.
Feeding illinois is a coalition of eight feeding america food banks that provide food to over 2,400 food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters that feed nearly 1.4 million residents across the entire state of illinois.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…
The mission of indy hunger network is to address systemic hunger issues and eliminate disparities in the greater indianapolis hunger relief system through collaboration on programs, advocacy, and research.
Provide resources for low income clients.
The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
By drawing on varied resources within public agencies and the private sector, we hope to provide hunger relief for those in need throughout Indiana.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indian River Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 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. 24 of the 49 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 PORT AUSTIN REEFLIGHT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds TREASURE COAST FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CRYSTAL LAKE FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MCHENRY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Indian River County Habitat for Humanity Inc ↗
- Who funds Senior Resource Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE FOR FAMILIES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CASA OF MCHENRY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DASIE BRIDGEWATER HOPE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT 100 OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds TREASURE COAST MANATEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC ↗
- Who funds Options and Advocacy for Mchenry County Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Indian River Community Foundation Inc · Bernard a Egan Foundation Inc · Jake Owen Foundation · Welsh Family Foundation Inc · Grand Harbor Community Outreach Program Inc · The John's Island Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Olivia Delacruz Foundation Inc · The Rogers Family Foundation · The Karen Katen Foundation · The Carwill Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Kendacar Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Treasure Coast Food Bank Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Learning Alliance Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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