· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| NUCLEAR AGE PEACE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNITY SHOPPE | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +33% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- USUNITY SHOPPE INC7× · 2018–2024 · $140k · revenue +79%
- WUWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY7× · 2018–2024 · $115k · revenue +55%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC4× · 2018–2021 · $85k · revenue +89%
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
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.
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Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.
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How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 50 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 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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds BRADY CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds STATE STREET BALLET ↗
- 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 HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds PATH ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds GABRIELLA CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Herbert & Elaine Kendall Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Herbert & Elaine Kendall Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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