· Private foundation
The Donna L Kendall Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $2k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $161k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY | $161,000 |
| ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC | $25,000 |
| CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSN | $25,000 |
| METROPOLITAN OPERA GUILD | $1,400 |
| NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY | $350 |
| METROPOLITAN OPERA CLUB | $250 |
| NSCDA DUMBARTON HOUSE | $100 |
| AM SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of The Donna L Kendall Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 79% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 71%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PSPHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +16%
- CSChicago Symphony Orchestra9× · 2017–2025 · $223k · revenue +58%
- TSTHE SANTA FE OPERA3× · 2017–2019 · $125k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- RPROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA OF SCOTLANDone grant, 2023 · $10k
- IBIRVINE BARCLAY THEATERone grant, 2021 · $5k
- AFALLIANCE FRANCAISE - CHICAGOone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
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.
To present the highest-quality performances of great music, bringing national and international distinction to the orchestra and its community; to delight and educate audiences of all ages and backgrounds, and enhance the cultural vitality…
We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
The Culver City Symphony Orchestra strives to enlighten and inspire the diverse citizenry of Culver City and the Los Angeles area through the presentation of orchestral music concerts, to present works of American composers, and to…
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
New york city opera was famously dubbed "the people's opera" by mayor fiorello laguardia at its founding in 1943. more than 80 years later, city opera continues its historic mission to inspire audiences with innovative and theatrically…
See schedule 0founded in 1994, opera santa barbara is the signature provider of professional opera on the california central coast. we aspire to be a cultural leader in the santa barbara region, voicing and advancing our community's spirit…
The minnesota orchestra mission is to enrich, inspire and serve our community as an enduring symphony orchestra internationally recognized for its artistic excellence.
To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 30 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds THE SANTA FE OPERA ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Segerstrom Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds THE SOLTI FOUNDATION US CO Fiona Queen ↗
- Who funds The Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc ↗
- Who funds MASTERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS COUNCIL OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLES W BOWERS MUSEUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN OPERA CLUB ↗
- Who funds WYOMING OUTDOOR COUNCIL ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Donna L Kendall Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Donna L Kendall Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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