About Us

The Pendill Fund, Inc., is a 501(c)3 public^* foundation, incorporated in the State of Virginia in 2005. Contributions made to the Pendill Fund are tax-deductible to the full extent permitted by law.

The Pendill Fund (PF) has headquarters in Tarrytown, NY and maintains an office in Moscow, Russia. 

You might well ask, why should you donate to the Pendill Fund rather than to some large, well-known foundation.  The reasons are simple:

• The Pendill Fund spends money donated on children in need, not on expensive salaries.

• The Pendill Fund is run exclusively by dedicated volunteers with only one paid employee in Moscow, therefore leveraging every dollar donated to the maximum. 

• The Pendill Fund ventures where many other NGOs won’t go, but where the need is the greatest, preferring to work in distant regions of Russia. 

• The Pendill Fund has over 200 severely disabled orphans in its program, one hundred of whom are in dire need of surgery.

• In 2007 over 2500 additional children and youth were impacted by PF sponsored programs, which were focused on the prevention of HIV/AIDS, drug and alcohol use.   These programs also teach tolerance towards the orphaned, disabled, the elderly, as well as towards people of a different race or ethnic group.  The programs are conducted in high schools, theatres, juvenile delinquency centers and orphanages in many regions of the country. 

• The Pendill Fund focuses its attention on older children, who generally are more easily forgotten than cute infants many of whom have a chance of being adopted. 

• The Pendill Fund is nimble, dynamic, well connected with Russian and non-Russian NGOs and is able to cut through red tape quickly. 

• The Pendill Fund’s Director of Russian Programs has years of experience and was instrumental in setting up most of today’s Russian Community Foundations and many of Russia’s NGOs.

• The Pendill Fund is agile and able to resolve local difficulties quickly, because most of its staff and Board of Directors and Advisors are bi-lingual and bi-cultural. 

• The Pendill Fund draws on almost 100 years of combined Board experience of dealing with the Former Soviet Union and Russia.

• The Pendill Fund now operated in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novgorod, Petrozavodsk, Togliatti, Orel, Serpukhov, Chelyabinsk, Tambov, Orenburg and Dmitrov.

• The Pendill Fund’s name is well known and respected in Russia, where trust and confidence is not easily earned. 

• The Pendill Fund finds matching funds for its programs for more impact and greater results.  In 2007, on the basis of $16,800, PF managed to attract $65,000 in local and international matching funds.

• The Pendill Fund has been extensively involved in the growing philanthropic effort in Russia since the early 1990’s.

• The Pendill Fund is a work of love and dedication to children who have the misfortune of living without limbs, without sight or parents and who depend on the compassion of caring adults.

^*A public foundation is defined as a nonprofit corporation which receives its assets from multiple sources, (as opposed to a private foundation, whose funds come from one source, i.e., an individual, family, or corporation). Sources of support may include private foundations, individuals, and government agencies. A public foundation must continuously seek funds from these diverse sources in order to retain its public status.