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Richard & Lisa Kendall Foundation at a glance

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Richard & Lisa 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.

$42k
Granted FY2022
19
Grants FY2022
4
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Richard & Lisa Kendall Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Richard & Lisa Kendall Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $42k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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11
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11
’20
14
’21
13
’22
0
’23
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’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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.

Arts & Culture$881kPhilanthropy$615kEducation$53kScience & Tech$20kEnvironment$15kSocial Science$9kCrime & Legal$9kInternational$5kOther$0
02FY2022 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k18 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
$500
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE MUSIC CENTER$30,000
ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS$5,000
PUBLIC COUNSEL$1,000
LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES$1,000
CHINESE HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL PROJECT$888
LIFT-DC$537
NO KID HUNGRY$500
UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION$500
BRENTWOOD SCHOOL$500
PLURALISTIC SCHOOL ONE$500
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$500
LOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY$250
ASPEN INSTITUTE$250
ANGEL ISLAND IMMIGRATION STATION FOUNDATION$103
POETS AND WRITERS INC$103
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $5k → 10%THE HUNTINGTON: $3k → 14%Natural Resources Defense Council: $5k → 17%NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION: $35k → 14%WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY GIVING: $5k → 7%ASPEN WORDS: $3k → 6%UC PRESS FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%NTHP: $11k → 14%WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY GIVING: $5k → 7%ASPEN MUSICAL FESTIVAL AND SCHOOL: $2k → 6%UC PRESS FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%NTHP: $10k → 14%WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY GIVING: $5k → 7%ASPEN WORDS: $1k → 6%LA OPERA: $80k → 14%BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $5k → 17%NTHP: $10k → 14%LA OPERA: $50k → 14%BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $5k → 17%ASPEN INSTITUTE WRITER: $3k → 14%LA OPERA: $50k → 14%BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $5k → 17%ASPEN INSTITUTE: $3k → 14%LA OPERA: $50k → 14%THE MUSIC CENTER: $33k → 14%THE MUSIC CENTER: $30k → 14%THE MUSIC CENTER: $30k → 14%THE MUSIC CENTER: $30k → 14%THE MUSIC CENTER: $30k → 14%LIFT: $1k → 14%GOLDMAN SACHS PHILANTHROPY FUND: $601k → 17%GOLDMAN SACHS PHILANTHROPY FUND: $14k → 17%THE BROADSTAGE: $100k → 14%THE BROADSTAGE: $100k → 14%THE BROADSTAGE: $100k → 14%THE BROADSTAGE: $100k → 14%THE BROADSTAGE: $10k → 14%LEGAL AID FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $2k → 14%USC OFFICE PLANNED GIVING: $10k → 14%USC OFFICE PLANNED GIVING: $10k → 14%ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $5k → 14%PLURALISTIC SCHOOL ONE: $2k → 14%READY TO SUCCEED: $1k → 14%PLUSALISTIC SCHOOL ONE: $1k → 14%PUBLIC COUNSEL: $1k → 14%THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $2k → 14%LA REVIEW OF BOOKS: $1k → 14%LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $2k → 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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 38% of Richard & Lisa Kendall Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Richard & Lisa Kendall Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$937k · 29 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2022, 16 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
14

Total granted

$937k
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+34%

Still filing today

55%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationCrime & LegalInternationalEnvironmentSocial ScienceOther
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

  • WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $15k · revenue +211%
  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    2× · 2018–2021 · $15k · revenue +37%
  • UP
    UC PRESS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $8k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATESgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +133%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • HR
    HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -73%
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
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco

The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…

Arts & Culture
2
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
3
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
4
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
5
The Asia Society

The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.

International
6
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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7
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
8
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc

The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.

Arts & Culture
9
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
10
Association of Writers & Writing Programs

Awp provides support, advocacy, resources, and community to writers, college & university creative writing programs, and writing organizations.

Arts & Culture
11
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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12
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asian American Writers Workshop Inc; the most unlike its peers is Natural Resources Defense Council Inc. 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

32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 51 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
25/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $410,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLA OPERA: $230,000 · OtherLA OPERATHE MUSIC CENTER: $152,500 · OtherTHE MUSIC CENTERNTHP: $31,000 · Other+24 more: $66,453 · Other+24 moreGS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC: $615,080 · PhilanthropyGS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEAL…NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES: $35,000 · Arts & CultureUC PRESS FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE CHINESE AMERICAN MUSEUM: $1,876 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $6,269 · Arts & CultureWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $15,000 · EducationTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $6,000 · EducationLOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS: $4,000 · EducationBRENTWOOD SCHOOL: $2,500 · EducationREADY TO SUCCEED: $1,250 · EducationNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $15,000 · EnvironmentTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $6,250 · Social ScienceHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $5,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $500 · International
Other$889,953Philanthropy$615,080Arts & Culture$50,645Education$28,750Environment$15,000Social Science$6,250International$5,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC: $615,080 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUC PRESS FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $6,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBRENTWOOD SCHOOL: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLegal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHINESE AMERICAN MUSEUM: $1,876 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPUBLIC COUNSEL: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY: $1,450 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPOETS AND WRITERS INC: $1,353 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetREADY TO SUCCEED: $1,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLIFT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHINESE HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL PROJECT: $988 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $775 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAngel Island Immigration Station Foundation: $506 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOBILE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF CHINESE IN AMERICA: $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WORKING THEATRE CO INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHINESE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRED HEN PRESS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

California HumanitiesCalifornia Community …American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
California HumanitiesCA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Humanities · California Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Richard & Lisa Kendall Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard & Lisa Kendall Foundation. 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%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 51 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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