· Private foundation
The Herbert & Elaine Kendall Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 88% of THE HERBERT & ELAINE KENDALL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| COMMUNITY ARTS MUSIC ASSOCIATION (CAMA) | $20,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| COTTAGE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA GRAND OPERA | $10,000 |
| WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | $10,000 |
| UNITY SHOPPE | $10,000 |
| NUCLEAR AGE PEACE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LOBERO THEATER | $5,000 |
| CANCER CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA | $5,000 |
| STATE STREET BALLET | $5,000 |
| MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST | $5,000 |
| READY TO SUCCEED LA | $5,000 |
| ENSEMBLE THEATER | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $214k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- USUNITY SHOPPE INC7× · 2018–2024 · $140k · revenue +79%
- HRHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC7× · 2018–2024 · $130k · revenue +10%
- WUWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY7× · 2018–2024 · $115k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- JMJP MORGAN CHASE PHILANTHROPY FUND DAF - RICHARD KENDALLone grant, 2023 · $4.3M
- JMJP MORGAN CHASE PHILANTHROPY FUND DAF - NANCY MCCABEone grant, 2023 · $4.3M
- TBTHE BROAD STAGEMADISON PROJECTone grant, 2022 · $80k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 50 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 UNITY SHOPPE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ARTS MUSIC ASSOCIATION OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds NUCLEAR AGE PEACE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BRADY CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds STATE STREET BALLET ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CALM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds UNION RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds PATH ↗
- Who funds HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration ↗
- Who funds GABRIELLA CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
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: Ann Jackson Family Foundation · California Community Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Manitou Fund · The Turpin-Allebrand Family Charitable Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · Schlinger Chrisman Foundation Northern Trust Company Trustee · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · The Kirby-Jones Foundation · Www 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 The Herbert & Elaine Kendall Charitable Foundation 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.
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
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.
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