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Kenneth & Katherine Koessler Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Kenneth & Katherine Koessler Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$165k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$37k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$600kHealth$291kReligion$163kArts & Culture$81kHousing & Shelter$66kAnimals$49kPhilanthropy$43kHuman Services$21kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k25 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $119k
$1,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NARDIN ACADEMY$36,500
OLV CHARITIES$32,500
TROCAIRE COLLEGE$20,000
MARY M GOOLEY HEMOPHILIA CENTER$10,000
STATION OF THE CROSS RADIO$10,000
SABAH INC$10,000
D'YOUVILLE COLLEGE$9,000
CANISUS COLLEGE$7,000
BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLORSHIP FUND$3,000
GROSSE POINTE ACADEMY$2,500
ST VINCENT DEPAUL$2,500
VESTED INTEREST IN K9S INC$2,100
HOSPICE FOUNDATION$2,000
CHRIST THE KING CHURCH$2,000
WNY BLOOD CARE$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BUILD PROMISE: $3k → 13%BUILD PROMISE: $1k → 13%WNY HEROES INC: $1k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
CO
VA
NC
SC
HI
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 51 repeat orgs$216k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

51 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
35

Total granted

$1.1M
$171k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+9%

Still filing today

41%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationAnimalsArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • DU
    D'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $67k · revenue +23%
  • GERARD PLACE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND COMPANY INC
    3× · 2017–2022 · $63k · revenue +32%
  • KM
    Kenmore Mercy Hospital
    2× · 2020–2022 · $26k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • RP
    ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -2%
  • MI
    MARINERS INN
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -25%
  • SM
    ST MICHAELS CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $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.

04Its field

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.

1
Niagara County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc

To prevent cruelty to all animals through public education on thier humane treatment and to provide love, care, shelter and advovacy for companion animals in our community.

Animals
2
Operation Pets - the Spay-Neuter Clinic of Wny Inc

Operation pets provides high quality, high volume, affordable spay and neuter services to the underserved population of western new york including outreach to local animal welfare groups.

Animals
3
St Francis College

St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.

Education
4
Rochester General College of Health Careers

The rochester general college of health careers is dedicated to preparing adult learners with the knowledge, skills, and competencies necessary to pursue health careers, advanced education, and lifelong learning.

Education
5
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Rochester General Health System

Rochester general health system, provides patient care, senior housing, laboratory services, and community outreach to residents and other clients in monroe county, new york and several surrounding counties.

Health
7
Molloy University

Molloy university, an independent catholic university, rooted in the dominican tradition of study, spirituality, service, and community, is committed to academic excellence with respect for each person. through transformative education,…

Education
8
The Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo

The legal aid bureau of buffalo, inc., a not-for-profit organization, provides legal representation to financially needy men, women and children in western new york. through its skilled staff, the legal aid bureau seeks equal justice for…

Crime & Legal
9
Humane Society of Genesee County

To provide services to homeless animals

Animals
10
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
St Francis Hospital Foundation Inc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
12
Niagara University

Niagara university educates its students and enriches their lives through programs in the liberal arts and through career preparation, informed by the catholic and vincentian traditions.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wny Heroes Inc; the most unlike its peers is Far View Horse Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 90 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
26/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

N A R D I N ACADEMY: $143,500 · OtherN A R D I N ACADEMYBISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLORSHIP FUND: $113,500 · OtherBISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLORSHIP FUNDROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE: $56,500 · OtherROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTEST JOSEPHS COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE: $48,300 · OtherST JOSEPHS COLLEGIATE INSTITUTEHOSPICE FOUNDATION: $47,500 · OtherHOSPICE FOUNDATIONCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF BUFFALO: $44,500 · OtherCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF BUFFALOCANISIUS HIGH SCHOOL: $35,450 · OtherOLV CHARITIES: $32,500 · Other+51 more: $253,500 · Other+51 moreTROCAIRE COLLEGE: $75,000 · EducationTROCAIRE COLLEGED'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITY: $67,000 · EducationD'YOUVILLE UNIVERSIT…CANISIUS UNIVERSITY: $52,588 · EducationCANISIUS UNIVERSITYTHE GROSSE POINTE ACADEMY: $18,500 · EducationTHE GROSSE POINTE AC…PROJECT FLIGHT INC: $8,000 · Education+4 more: $13,250 · Education+4 moreKENMORE MERCY FOUNDATION: $30,000 · HealthKenmore Mercy Hospital: $25,500 · HealthMARINERS INN: $25,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 · HealthBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY: $54,500 · Arts & CultureBURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER: $12,500 · Arts & CultureJUST BUFFALO LITERARY CENTER INC: $3,750 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyBUFFALO RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO: $2,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyGERARD PLACE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND COMPANY INC: $62,500 · Housing & ShelterZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO INC: $12,500 · AnimalsLITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY: $6,500 · AnimalsEQUINE RESCUE OF AIKEN: $4,000 · AnimalsSPCA ALBRECHT CENTER FOR ANIMAL WELFARE: $3,000 · AnimalsVESTED INTEREST IN K9S INC: $2,100 · AnimalsPhoenix Rising Equine Rescue & Rehab Inc: $2,000 · Animals+3 more: $2,000 · Animals
Other$775,250Education$234,338Health$85,500Arts & Culture$71,750Philanthropy$63,500Housing & Shelter$62,500Animals$32,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTROCAIRE COLLEGE: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetD'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITY: $67,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGERARD PLACE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND COMPANY INC: $62,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY: $54,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCANISIUS UNIVERSITY: $52,588 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetKENMORE MERCY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetKenmore Mercy Hospital: $25,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARINERS INN: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GROSSE POINTE ACADEMY: $18,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER: $12,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARY M GOOLEY HEMOPHILIA CENTER INC: $11,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSKATING ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND & HAND: $11,025 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetBUFFALO RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPROJECT FLIGHT INC: $8,000 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetLITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY: $6,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HONORS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetEQUINE RESCUE OF AIKEN: $4,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJUST BUFFALO LITERARY CENTER INC: $3,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetKING URBAN LIFE CENTER INC: $3,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBUILD PROMISE INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetREAD TO SUCCEED BUFFALO INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTAU BETA ASSOCIATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSPCA ALBRECHT CENTER FOR ANIMAL WELFARE: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVESTED INTEREST IN K9S INC: $2,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPhoenix Rising Equine Rescue & Rehab Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMARINE RECONNAISSANCE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWNY HEROES INC: $1,025 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOST DOG RESCUE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUFFALO OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLY FAMILY COMMUNICATIONS INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE REVELAS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFAR VIEW HORSE RESCUE: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetERIE COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 TROCAIRE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds D'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GERARD PLACE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds CANISIUS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KENMORE MERCY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Kenmore Mercy Hospital ↗
  • Who funds MARINERS INN ↗
  • Who funds THE GROSSE POINTE ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO INC ↗
  • Who funds MARY M GOOLEY HEMOPHILIA CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SKATING ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND & HAND ↗
  • Who funds BUFFALO RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT FLIGHT INC ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗

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.

Community Foundation …James H Cummings Foun…The Western New York …Foundation for Jewish…The John R Oishei Fou…The Osc Charitable Fo…The Ralph C Wilson Jr…Children's Foundation…Cullen FoundationMother Cabrini Health…Colucci Family Founda…Red Top Foundation
Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY39.9× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · The Western New York Foundation · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · The John R Oishei Foundation · The Osc Charitable Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc · Cullen Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Colucci Family Foundation Inc · Red Top Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kenneth & Katherine Koessler Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kenneth & Katherine Koessler Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Kenneth & Katherine Koessler Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Kenneth & Katherine Koessler Family Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 90 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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