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Kendall Family Charitable Trust at a glance

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Kendall Family 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.

$5k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$15kCivil Rights$3kAnimals$2kEducation$1kArts & Culture$1kEnvironment$900Food & Nutrition$500Housing & Shelter$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
5
States reached
$12k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
National MS Society$1,500
Beyond Type 1$1,000
ACLU Foundation$1,000
Feisty Felnes$500
Portland Taiko$500
Sierra Club$300
Seattle Humane Society$300
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 27% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Hunger Coaliton: $500 → 7%Beyond Type 1: $1k → 7%SIERRA CLUB: $200 → 10%ACLU Foundation: $1k → 17%Arkansas Single Parent Scholarship Fund: $1k → 14%CHILDRENS DEFENSE FUND: $400 → 14%Portland Taiko: $500 → 12%SAINT JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $400 → 14%Planned Parenthood of the Greater NW: $2k → 9%Feisty Felnes: $500 → 9%Feeding America: $500 → 14%Hope for Warrior: $500 → 6%Sierra Club: $200 → 10%ACLU Foundation: $1k → 17%Portland Taiko: $500 → 12%Planned Parenthood of the Great NW: $2k → 9%Sierra Club: $200 → 10%ACLU Foundation: $200 → 17%Planned Parenthood of the Greater NW: $2k → 9%ACLU Foundation: $200 → 17%Seattle Humane Society: $300 → 9%ACLU: $200 → 17%Seattle Humane: $250 → 9%Seattle Humane Society: $200 → 9%Seattle Humane Society: $200 → 9%SEATTLE HUMANE SOCIETY: $200 → 9%Habitat for Humanity: $500 → 9%National MS Society: $2k → 9%MS Society of the Greater NW: $2k → 9%National MS Society: $2k → 9%National MS Society: $2k → 9%MS SOCIETY OF GREATER NW: $1k → 9%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

WA
ID
IL
NY
OR
CA
VA
AR
TN
DC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14k · 6 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
12

Total granted

$14k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+9%

Still filing today

67%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthCivil RightsAnimalsArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
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

  • NM
    National MS Society
    3× · 2023–2025 · $5k
  • PP
    Planned Parenthood of the Greater NW
    2× · 2022–2024 · $4k
  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $2k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +9%
  • MS
    MS Society of the Greater NW
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
  • MS
    MS SOCIETY OF GREATER NW
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
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
American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona

The american civil liberties union of arizona is the state's premier guardian of liberty working through the arizona legislature and communities statewide to defend and preserve individual rights and freedoms guaranteed to all by the…

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2
American Geophysical Union

Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…

Science & Tech
3
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
4
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
5
350PDX

Building a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act.

Environment
6
American Civil Liberties Union of Washington

To protect and extend civil liberties and civil rights, and to take action to further those liberties and rights within the state of washington.

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7
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Oregon Inc

The aclu foundation of oregon is dedicated to preserving and defending civil liberties and civil rights.

Civil Rights
8
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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9
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
10
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
11
The Humane League

We exist to end the abuse of animals raised for food. this mission is executed by persuading companies and institutions to adopt animal welfare policies through negotiation and pressure campaigns, and then holding them accountable to their…

Animals
12
American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska

Preservation and promotion of civil rights and civil liberties.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Defense Fund; the most unlike its peers is Feisty Felines. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 21 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

National MS Society: $5,000 · OtherNational MS SocietyPlanned Parenthood of the Greater NW: $3,500 · OtherPlanned Parenthood of the Greater NWMS Society of the Greater NW: $2,000 · OtherMS Society of the Greater NWMS SOCIETY OF GREATER NW: $1,000 · OtherMS SOCIETY OF GREATER NWARKANSAS SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $1,000 · OtherARKANSAS SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUNDSIERRA CLUB: $600 · Other+7 more: $2,600 · Other+7 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY: $2,000 · HealthPLANNED PAREN…BEYOND TYPE 1: $1,000 · HealthBEYOND TYPE 1AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $2,400 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIV…CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $400 · Civil RightsCHILDREN'S D…THE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY: $1,150 · AnimalsFEISTY FELINES: $500 · AnimalsPortland Taiko: $1,000 · Arts & CultureFeeding America: $500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$15,700Health$3,000Civil Rights$2,800Animals$1,650Arts & Culture$1,000Food & Nutrition$500

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 budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $2,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY: $1,150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPortland Taiko: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARKANSAS SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF ARROYO GRANDE: $200 over 1y, 0.4% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Kendall Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kendall Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Portland Taiko: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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.

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 21 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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