How much did The Kendeda Fund grant in FY2023?

Environment$50MCommunity Improvement$25MEducation$16MInternational$15MPhilanthropy$12MEmployment$11MHousing & Shelter$9.6MArts & Culture$9.3MCrime & Legal$7.5MOther$99M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

travel communicationscovid emergencyemergency responseequity socialsocial justiceshelterincreased coronovirus

2021

firereservationcitizens winanswinans solardirectedfederalbank

2022

reservesleadership transitionpower partnersclimate solutionssolutions equitypodcastclimate beat

2023

sustainability cohortkendeda's sustainabilityparticipation kendeda'sdialogueslibrary branchparticipation fund'sfund's sustainability

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 207 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k26 grants · $111k
$10k–50k59 grants · $1.4M
$50k–250k69 grants · $6.3M
$250k+53 grants · $52M

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

INDUSTRIAL COMMONS$8,000,000
AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC$4,900,000
NATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN BOARDING SCHOOL HEALING C$4,500,000
BOZEMAN PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC$3,000,000
GEORGIA INTERFAITH POWER AND LIGHT$2,300,000
EARTHJUSTICE$2,000,000
SOUTHFACE ENERGY INSTITUTE INC$2,000,000
HEART OF THE ROCKIES FOUNDATION$1,537,000
THE SOUTH FORK CONSERVANCY INCORPORATED$1,500,000
ATLANTA JEWISH FILM SOCIETY INC$1,100,000
HOPA MOUNTAIN INC$1,010,000
MERCY SHIPS$1,000,000
EVERY STUDENT EVERY COMMUNITY INC$1,000,000
CAPITAL FOR GOOD USA$1,000,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC$1,000,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $6.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 11%. 29% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

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

About 10% of The Kendeda Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The Kendeda Fundlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 7.6% directed abroad (not shown)

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$215M · 195 repeat orgs$38M to everyone else

195 repeat relationships — 123 still active in FY2023, 72 since wound down; 44 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

195

135

Total granted

$215M

$28M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%

+64%

Still filing today

84%

76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther

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

IC
INDUSTRIAL COMMONS
4× · 2020–2023 · $9.2M · revenue +8401% · 72% of their budget
SE
SOUTHFACE ENERGY INSTITUTE INC
4× · 2020–2023 · $8.1M · revenue +82% · 40% of their budget
HC
HEADWATERS COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST
3× · 2021–2023 · $5.6M · revenue +7526% · 49% of their budget

Funded once

AJ
AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC
one grant, 2020 · $4.7M · revenue -34%
TC
THE CONSERVATION FUND
one grant, 2022 · $4.0M
MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTERgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $1.7M · revenue +45%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Alaska Conservation Foundation

Protects alaska's unique landscapes and ways of life by supporting conservation leaders, organizations, and initiatives.

Environment

The Commons Inc

Partnering with individuals and organizations to access, organize, and share data that inspires action that restores our environment.

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Global Impact Investing Network Inc

Increase the scale and effectiveness of impact investing to solve systemic problems facing people and the planet.

Philanthropy

Global Forest Generation

Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…

Environment

CarbonPlan

We work collaboratively to build open tools and resources for the evaluation and deployment of robust climate programs. We share analyses through public communication and collaboration with journalists in order to foster effective climate…

Environment

United States Endowment for Forestry

To advance positive change for the nation's working forests and forest-reliant communities

Environment

Taproot Earth

Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.

Environment

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and our planet by creating protected reserves.

International

Environment Next Inc

Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues.

Environment

Nature for Justice

Mobilize funds and provide the necessary technical resources to leading, in-country organizations working with local, indigenous communities to achieve climate resiliency.

Environment

Eastern National

To serve america's national parks and other public trusts and their visitors

Recreation & Sports

Public Land Solutions

Public land solutions is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing comprehensive recreation planning and stakeholder coordination to support effective and sustainable public land solutions.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs and the most unlike its peers is Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.9%3/323

the rest of the field

11%

206,161/1,819,242

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.

06the grantee network

307 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

300/307

Grantees still filing

235/307

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$124,915,268Environment$49,650,852Community Improvement$24,842,824Education$16,109,516International$14,696,661Philanthropy$11,674,125Employment$10,924,000

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.

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.

The Arthur M Blank Family FoundationGA114.2× affinity71 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater · The High Stakes Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Wilburforce Foundation · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Park County Community Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Cross Charitable Foundation Inc · Surdna Foundation Inc

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 organisation The Kendeda Fund 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BOZEMAN PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~7 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +76% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 810405940 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on BOZEMAN PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 7 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 92% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Kendeda Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Kendeda Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

The Kendeda Fund

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

307 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Kendeda Fund?

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The Kendeda Fund

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

307 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Kendeda Fund?

More from the funding graph