· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $36k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $14,000 |
| HEALING HANDS INT'L | $11,500 |
| NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION | $10,000 |
| ANSWERING THE CALL | $5,000 |
| COTTONTREE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI COUNTY UNION MISSION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| LAMAI AFGAN FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| FRANKLIN HIGH SCHOOL FUND | $2,000 |
| CENTRE COLLEGE OF KENTUCKY | $2,000 |
| COLORADO BAPTIST GENERAL CONVENTION | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +34% since the first grant, against -43% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- HHHEALING HANDS INTERNATIONAL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +102%
- NRNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION9× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +34%
- LALAMIA AFGHAN FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2023 · $22k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- MTMIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +79%
- GPGREATER PLEASANT VIEW CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $2k
- OVONE VISION INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -43%
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.
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
The mission of hope international university is to empower students through christian higher education to serve the church and impact the world for christ. the university specializes in fields offering significant influence on society…
Manna University is a biblical higher education institution dedicated to educating, equipping, and empowering emerging leaders to change the world.
Arizona christian university provides a biblically-integrated, liberal arts education equipping graduates to serve the lord jesus christ in all aspects of life, as leaders of influence and excellence.
Partnering with Indigenous Leaders to Spread the Gospel, Serve Others, and Build Community
East texas baptist university (etbu) was founded in 1912 as a fully accredited institution of higher education. affiliated with the baptist general convention of texas, etbu educates students by integrating biblical faith and learning to…
Interserve USA recruits, trains, sends, and supports Christian professionals from America who live and work long term, generally among the poor, in places which need their expertise; especially in medicine, development, education, English…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Colorado Baptist General Convention. 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 24 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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 43 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 HEALING HANDS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds TREE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds LAMIA AFGHAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ADVANCING NATIVE MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds MISSION LAZARUS INC ↗
- Who funds ANSWERING THE CALL INC ↗
- Who funds WATERFRONT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds UKRAINE PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds The Joseph School Inc ↗
- Who funds HARPETH CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BACKFIELD IN MOTION ↗
- Who funds BEGIN ANEW ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TENNGREEN LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Colorado Baptist General Convention ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HANDS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds ONE VISION INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF INDIAN LAKE PENINSULA ↗
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: 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
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 Kendall Berry Charitable Trust 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.