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Kendall Berry Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$63k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
30%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$14,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 26
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$1.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Kendall Berry Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving11$63k0%
FY202410$54k30%
FY202311$50k27%
FY20229$44k22%
FY202113$42k0%
FY202023$50k9%
FY201926$48k8%
FY201823$49k17%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$162kReligion$98kHousing & Shelter$83kFood & Nutrition$56kEducation$27kEnvironment$5kYouth Development$3kPhilanthropy$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IN
CO
MO
KY
VA
AR
TN
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Healing Hands International Inc$65,30090%
Tree Foundation Inc$46,40097%
Nashville Rescue Mission$33,10090%
Lamia Afghan Foundation Inc$22,00066%
Advancing Native Missions$21,00030%
Mission Lazarus Inc$17,40050%
Tennessee Baptist Foundation$12,5004n/a
Answering the Call Inc$11,00030%
Waterfront Rescue Mission Inc$9,40050%
Ukraine Partnership Foundation$8,90040%
Show all 28 grantees
All grantees of Kendall Berry Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Healing Hands International Inc$65,30090%
Tree Foundation Inc$46,40097%
Nashville Rescue Mission$33,10090%
Lamia Afghan Foundation Inc$22,00066%
Advancing Native Missions$21,00030%
Mission Lazarus Inc$17,40050%
Tennessee Baptist Foundation$12,5004n/a
Answering the Call Inc$11,00030%
Waterfront Rescue Mission Inc$9,40050%
Ukraine Partnership Foundation$8,90040%
Middle Tennessee State University Foundation$7,50010%
Baptist Global Response Inc$7,0003n/a
One Mission Society USA Inc$6,0003n/a
Centre College$3,50020%
The Joseph School Inc$3,00030%
Vanderbilt University$3,00020%
Begin Anew$2,50050%
Harpeth Conservancy$2,50040%
Backfield in Motion$2,50020%
Tenngreen Land Conservancy$2,00040%
Colorado Baptist General Convention$2,00022%
Africa Inland Mission International Incorporated$1,7003n/a
Harvest Hands Community Development Corporation Inc$1,50020%
Maple Grove Cemetary Association$1,5005n/a
Indiana University Foundation$1,30030%
One Vision International Inc$1,20010%
Friends of Indian Lake Peninsula$1,0001n/a
Youth Transition Inc$60011%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($149k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kendall Berry Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHealing Hands International Inc: $65,300 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTree Foundation Inc: $46,400 over 9y, 6.7% of budgetNashville Rescue Mission: $33,100 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLamia Afghan Foundation Inc: $22,000 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetAdvancing Native Missions: $21,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMission Lazarus Inc: $17,400 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAnswering the Call Inc: $11,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWaterfront Rescue Mission Inc: $9,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUkraine Partnership Foundation: $8,900 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMiddle Tennessee State University Foundation: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCentre College: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Joseph School Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVanderbilt University: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBegin Anew: $2,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHarpeth Conservancy: $2,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBackfield in Motion: $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTenngreen Land Conservancy: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Baptist General Convention: $2,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetHarvest Hands Community Development Corporation Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $1,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOne Vision International Inc: $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Transition Inc: $600 over 1y, 0.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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.

The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN18.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Servant Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Frist Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Independent Charitable Gift Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inc · Kingsway Charities Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation

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.

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About Kendall Berry Charitable Trust

How much does Kendall Berry Charitable Trust give?
Kendall Berry Charitable Trust reported 11 grants totaling $63,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Kendall Berry Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (36%), Religion (22%), Housing & Shelter (18%).
Who are Kendall Berry Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Healing Hands International Inc ($65k), Tree Foundation Inc ($46k), Nashville Rescue Mission ($33k).
Does Kendall Berry Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Kendall Berry Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Kendall Berry Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Servant Foundation, Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund.
Where is Kendall Berry Charitable Trust based?
Kendall Berry Charitable Trust is based in TN.

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 43 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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