· Private foundation
Kassel-Backer 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONGREGATION BETH ELOHIM | $3,465 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD HEBREW CENTER | $1,555 |
| SHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION | $1,545 |
| PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE | $1,500 |
| BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION | $1,500 |
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 (FY20–21, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +44% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JFJEWISH FOOD SOCIETY INC4× · 2020–2024 · $534k · revenue +338%
THE MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM4× · 2020–2023 · $81k · revenue +14%- PPPROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $37k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- RCROMEMU CENTERone grant, 2022 · $100k
- SFSLOUGH FARM FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +875%
- KRKEHILAT ROMEMUone grant, 2021 · $15k
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.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The national forest foundation (nff), chartered by congress, turns america's love of nature into meaningful action for 193-million acre national forest system through on the ground program work and grant making activities, and accepts and…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.
The mission of the isamu noguchi foundation and garden museum is to advance the understanding and appreciation of isamu noguchi's art and legacy.the isamu noguchi foundation and garden museum seeks to protect and preserve isamu noguchi's…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The mission of the alliance for flushing meadows corona park is to support nyc parks to preserve, maintain, and improve flushing meadows corona park for the benefit and use of the surrounding communities and all new yorkers.
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 42 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 JEWISH FOOD SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds SLOUGH FARM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds INTEND HEALTH STRATEGIES INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC FOR ALL SEASONS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds NEWARK PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds Yestermorrow Inc ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds PROMISE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds EMMA'S TORCH LTD ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS FAMILY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds First Look Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
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 Paul E Singer Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The New York Community Trust · The Ford Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kassel-Backer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kassel-Backer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Newark Public Radio Inc: 51% of income from government
- Music for All Seasons Inc: 41% of income from government
- The Montclair Art Museum: 11% of income from government
How this is measured
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