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Carl E Kessler Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$479k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$346k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Philanthropy$873kHuman Services$474kInternational$387kAnimals$166kHealth$133kFood & Nutrition$129kArts & Culture$128kEducation$125kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $115k
  • $250k+1 grant · $346k
$2,750
Median grant
6
States reached
$8.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Charity Navigator$346,000
Communities in Schools Dallas Region$25,000
Salvation Army$22,500
Individual grant recipient$22,360
Military Museum of Fort Worth$15,000
Trinity Habitat for Humanity$10,000
Careity Foundation$10,000
Deki Inc$10,000
Wings of Hope$2,750
HALO Foundation$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Stand up to Cancer$2,500
American Red Cross$2,500
Brazos Foundation$1,600
Ducks Unlimited Inc$1,500
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $926k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The Eli Home: $3k → 10%Hour Children: $1k → 13%ShelterBox USA: $2k → 9%Place of Hope: $1k → 11%Daystar Life Center: $1k → 12%Chapman Partnership: $1k → 15%Helping Hand for Relief & Development: $3k → 21%JOIN: $2k → 12%Ferst Readers: $1k → 11%Shared Hope International: $5k → 9%Charity Navigator: $346k → 7%The Eli Home: $1k → 10%Fort Worth Hope Center: $2k → 11%ShelterBox USA: $1k → 9%Chapman Partnership: $1k → 15%JOIN: $1k → 12%Shared Hope International: $3k → 9%Charity Navigator: $275k → 7%Charity water: $1k → 17%Helping Hand for Relief & Development: $2k → 21%Ferst Readers: $1k → 11%Charity Navigator: $201k → 7%Cradles to Crayons: $2k → 16%Ferst Readers: $1k → 11%Charity Navigator: $1k → 7%Cradles to Crayons: $1k → 16%Charity water: $1k → 17%Helping Hand for Relief & Development: $2k → 21%Charity Navigator: $1k → 7%Crisis Aid International: $5k → 11%Crisis Aid International: $5k → 11%One Simple Wish: $3k → 11%Puppies Behind Bars: $3k → 17%Crisis Aid International: $3k → 11%Sewa International Inc: $2k → 16%Crisis Aid International: $3k → 11%Puppies Behind Bars: $2k → 17%Sewa International Inc: $2k → 16%Crisis Aid International: $2k → 11%Sewa International Inc: $2k → 16%Puppies Behind Bars: $2k → 17%MEND: $4k → 14%MEND: $2k → 14%Dwell with Dignity: $3k → 14%A Chance in Life: $2k → 17%World Food Program: $3k → 14%Irving Cares: $2k → 14%Lena Pope Home Inc: $3k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.6M · 192 repeat orgs$266k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

192 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 177 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

192
124

Total granted

$2.6M
$241k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+17%

Still filing today

74%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesAnimalsEnvironmentEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

  • CN
    Charity Navigator
    9× · 2017–2025 · $827k · revenue +124%
  • CR
    COMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $105k · revenue +45%
  • CF
    CAREITY FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $82k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • MO
    Meals On Wheels Palo Pinto
    one grant, 2017 · $11k
  • D
    DonorsChoiceorg
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • WA
    Women's Auxillary Hood C Salvation Army
    one grant, 2020 · $10k

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.

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Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
2
Pact Inc

Pact is a nonprofit organization that builds evidence-based, data-driven, and community-led solutions for human development (continued in schedule o)

International
3
Counterpart International Inc

For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…

International
4
Pathfinder International

Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…

International
5
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
6
Devworks International

Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.

Human Services
7
World Resources Institute

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…

International
8
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
9
Food for the Hungry Inc

Food for the hungry is a christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that has designed, developed and delivered solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish. (continued on…

International
10
Alight

Alight builds a meaningful life for and with the displaced. not simply addressing basic needs, but building a life filled with joy, dignity, connection, and purpose. we walk with them along their entire journey of displacement and deliver…

International
11
World Vision Inc

World vision, inc. is a christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. (continued on schedule…

International
12
Project Hope - the People-to-People Health Foundation Inc

To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope for Haiti Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Halo Foundation Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPregnancy Support ServicesImmigrant Worker SupportChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Cancer Support ServicesDevelopmental Disabilities …Policy Research and AdvocacyDomestic Violence ServicesFood Banks and PantriesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Affordable Housing Developm…Military Veterans SupportAnimal Rescue and ShelterElementary Literacy TutoringCommunity FoundationsChristian Missionary Organi…Health Access Advocacy and …Environmental Conservation …
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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%42%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr16%72%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%4%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% 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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%2/230
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,335

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.

04the grantee network

226 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. 226 of the 321 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
38
Early backer (in before they grew)
218/226
Grantees still filing
162/226
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Charity Navigator — $826,850 · Human ServicesCharity Navigator+20 more — $100,000 · Human Services+20 moreMilitary Museum of Fort Worth — $93,000 · OtherMilitary Museum of Fort WorthSalvation Army — $88,702 · OtherSalvation ArmyCommunities in Schools Dallas Region — $77,000 · OtherCommunities in Schools Dallas RegionIndividual grant recipient — $59,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTrinity Habitat for Humanity — $44,500 · OtherMineral Wells Senior Center — $41,722 · Other+102 more — $657,259 · Other+102 moreDeki Inc — $37,500 · InternationalDeki IncRAINFOREST TRUST — $33,000 · InternationalRAINFOREST TR…INTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS — $16,000 · InternationalMAP International Inc — $14,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $11,500 · InternationalWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL — $11,500 · InternationalHAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION — $11,500 · InternationalHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC — $11,500 · InternationalMEDS & FOOD FOR KIDS — $11,500 · International+28 more — $172,725 · International+28 moreCAREITY FOUNDATION — $82,000 · HealthSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND — $8,000 · HealthTHE MIRACLE FOUNDATION INC — $5,500 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $5,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $5,000 · HealthSANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA — $4,500 · Health+1 more — $2,500 · HealthCOMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL INC — $105,000 · Community ImprovementEVA'S VILLAGE INC — $5,500 · Community ImprovementTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE — $16,000 · AnimalsWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC — $13,500 · AnimalsWILDAID INC — $10,000 · AnimalsTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC — $6,500 · AnimalsANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE — $6,500 · AnimalsMICHIGAN ANTI-CRUELTY SOCIETY — $6,500 · AnimalsPAWS CHICAGO — $5,500 · AnimalsANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC — $3,500 · AnimalsSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY — $3,500 · AnimalsHumane Society of North Texas — $3,500 · AnimalsA PETS WISH — $3,000 · Animals+4 more — $9,500 · AnimalsAMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $26,000 · EnvironmentDucks Unlimited Inc — $7,000 · EnvironmentFOSSIL RIM WILDLIFE CENTER INC — $6,500 · EnvironmentEnvironmental Fund For Texas Inc — $4,500 · EnvironmentConservation Lands Foundation — $3,500 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $3,000 · EnvironmentWATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC — $2,500 · EnvironmentTREES WATER AND PEOPLE — $2,500 · EnvironmentCLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC — $2,500 · EnvironmentThe Ocean Foundation — $2,000 · Environment
Human Services$926,850Other$1,061,883International$331,225Health$113,000Community Improvement$110,500Animals$87,500Environment$60,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCharity Navigator — $826,850 over 9y, 6.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL INC — $105,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetCAREITY FOUNDATION — $82,000 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetDeki Inc — $37,500 over 5y, 21% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST — $33,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC — $27,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $26,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRISIS AID INC — $18,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE — $16,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS — $16,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMAP International Inc — $14,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBRAZOS FOUNDATION INC — $14,050 over 9y, 5.9% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC — $13,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSTAND UP TO CANCER — $13,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $11,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL — $11,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION — $11,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC — $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDS & FOOD FOR KIDS — $11,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC — $10,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBARNABAS CENTER INC — $10,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBOOKS FOR AFRICA INC — $10,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWINGS OF HOPE — $10,225 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWILDAID INC — $10,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBOCA HELPING HANDS INC — $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTarrant Area Food Bank — $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY — $9,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAGC LTD — $9,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S OUTING ASSOCIATION — $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR HAITI INC — $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC — $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVITAMIN ANGEL ALLIANCE INC — $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDESIGN THAT MATTERS INC — $8,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetJOIN — $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Second Chance Inc — $8,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetECHO Inc — $8,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY-USA FOR AID & DEVELOPMENTINC — $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND — $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAir Warrior Courage Foundation — $7,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ZAKAT FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHARED HOPE INTERNATIONAL — $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWARM BLANKETS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC DBA KINSHIP UNITED — $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budget
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 Charity Navigator ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds CAREITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Deki Inc ↗
  • Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST ↗
  • Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CRISIS AID INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS ↗
  • Who funds MAP International Inc ↗
  • Who funds BRAZOS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds STAND UP TO CANCER ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds HAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDS & FOOD FOR KIDS ↗
  • Who funds ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds BARNABAS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BOOKS FOR AFRICA INC ↗
  • Who funds WINGS OF HOPE ↗

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.

Give Lively Foundatio…Community Foundation …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Communities Foundatio…Thomas M Helen McKee …Textron Charitable Tr…The Morris FoundationThe Rees-Jones Founda…Texas Instruments Fou…Amon G Carter Foundat…Sid W Richardson Foun…United Way of Tarrant…
Give Lively Foundation IncNY64.1× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Give Lively Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · The Morris Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Amon G Carter Foundation · Sid W Richardson Foundation · United Way of Tarrant County

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 Carl E Kessler Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge — 100% of income from government
  • Operation Fuel Incorporated — 51% of income from government
  • Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
  • Eva's Village Inc — 19% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Join — 4% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Center for Creative Education — 2% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Hope for Haiti Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • Chapman Partnership Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Place of Hope Inc — 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
50report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Carl E Kessler Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Carl E Kessler Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 321 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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