· Private foundation
The Kendeda Fund
Its FY2023 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, FY2020 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k26 grants · $111k
- $10k–50k59 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k70 grants · $6.5M
- $250k+53 grants · $52M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC | $1,000,000 |
| CAPITAL FOR GOOD USA | $1,000,000 |
| GEORGIA RESILIENCE AND OPPORTUNITY FUND INC | $1,000,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $6.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 8% of The Kendeda Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +20% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
184 repeat relationships: 119 still active in FY2023, 65 since wound down; 43 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TITHE INDUSTRIAL COMMONS4× · 2020–2023 · $9.2M · revenue +150% · 72% of their budget
- SESOUTHFACE ENERGY INSTITUTE INC4× · 2020–2023 · $8.1M · revenue +21% · 40% of their budget
MULTIPLIER4× · 2020–2023 · $6.5M · revenue +91%
Funded once
THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATIONone grant, 2022 · $4.0M · revenue +9%
MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTERone grant, 2020 · $1.7M · revenue -26%- PEPROJECT EQUITYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1.7M · revenue +595%
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 establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
To partner with individuals and organizations to access, organize, and share data that inspires action that restores our environment.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
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,…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…
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.
The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
How this is measured
331 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. 331 of the 372 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE INDUSTRIAL COMMONS ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN BOARDING SC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHFACE ENERGY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLIER ↗
- Who funds HEADWATERS COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST ↗
- Who funds BOZEMAN LIBRARY FRIENDS AND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE ICA GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds EVERY STUDENT EVERY COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GROVE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF DISTRICT IX INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON FUTURE ↗
- Who funds Georgia Interfaith Power & Light Inc ↗
- Who funds URBAN SUSTAINABILITY DIRECTORS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds MASS DESIGN GROUP LTD ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR SOUTHERN EQUITY ↗
- Who funds NEXUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Emerald Cities Collaborative Inc ↗
- Who funds Montana State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds HOPA MOUNTAIN INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF THE ROCKIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR ↗
- Who funds THE FUNDERS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Civic Innovation Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION ↗
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: The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · The High Stakes Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Surdna Foundation Inc · Park County Community Foundation · Wilburforce Foundation · Patagoniaorg · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Kendeda Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kendeda Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Health Resources in Action Inc: 39% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Presencing Institute Inc: 28% of income from government
- Forge Foundation Inc: 27% of income from government
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc: 22% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Root Capital Inc: 9% of income from government
- Sponsors Inc: 8% of income from government
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
- The Orion Society Inc: 2% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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