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Kesler Foundation at a glance

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Kesler 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.

$377k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$127k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $43k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $291k
$1,800
Median grant
5
States reached
$121k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHALOH SCHOOL OHOLEI TORAH$126,926
DELRAY JEWISH LIFE CENTER INC$99,600
MI KAMCHA YISROEL INC$64,500
CKIDS GAN ISRAEL FLORIDA INC$25,000
CHASSIDUS CENTER OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC$18,000
BOCA RATON SYNAGOGUE INC$9,601
EVEN SHETIYA INC$8,000
THE KOBY MANDELL FOUNDATION INC$6,800
CHEDER CHABAD INC$3,600
ITS GOOD TO KNOW INC$3,000
BRIDGE TO A BETTER WORLD FOUNDATION INC$2,600
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC$1,800
JEWISH FRIENDS OF THE AMERICAN MILITARY INC$1,800
ARLEKIN PLAYERS THEATRE$1,800
OR ZACH PRODUCTIONS INC$1,800
02The need
02

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 58% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ARLEKIN PLAYERS THEATRE: $2k → 7%SHALOH SCHOOL OHOLEI TORAH: $127k → 16%JEWISH FRIENDS OF THE AMERICAN MILITARY INC: $2k → 14%MI KAMCHA YISROEL INC: $65k → 13%LEV LALEV INC: $360 → 14%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC: $500 → 17%ITS GOOD TO KNOW INC: $3k → 20%DELRAY JEWISH LIFE CENTER INC: $100k → 11%THE KOBY MANDELL FOUNDATION INC: $7k → 7%PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $500 → 7%COLEL CHABAD: $36 → 20%CHEDER CHABAD INC: $4k → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $2k → 7%EVEN SHETIYA INC: $8k → 20%CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF WEST BOYNTON BEACH INC: $180 → 11%DARCHAI MENACHEM INC: $540 → 20%CHASSIDUS CENTER OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $18k → 11%TOMCHEI SHABBOS ISRAEL INC: $54 → 20%BOCA RATON SYNAGOGUE INC: $10k → 11%BRIDGE TO A BETTER WORLD FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 11%OR ZACH PRODUCTIONS INC: $2k → 11%CHABAD STUDENT ASSOCIATION LUBAVITCH INC: $180 → 11%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.
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 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
Gemilas Chesed Kramer Inc
Philanthropy
2
Chabad Lametayel Inc

encourage and facilitate the observance of traditional orthodox Jewish practices around the world.

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3
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
4
The Keren Rachaim Fund
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5
Chasdei Dovid Elimelech Inc
Philanthropy
6
Sherit Isroel
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7
Yakar Foundation Inc
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8
Ksav Sofer Inc
Philanthropy
9
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
10
The Mikvah Ltd
Philanthropy
11
The Yad Moach Vlev Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Keren Yad Le-Yosef Foundation Trust
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish National Fund-Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Arlekin Players Theatre. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SHALOH SCHOOL OHOLEI TORAH: $126,926 · OtherSHALOH SCHOOL OHOLEI TORAHDELRAY JEWISH LIFE CENTER INC: $99,600 · OtherDELRAY JEWISH LIFE CENTER INCBOCA RATON SYNAGOGUE INC: $9,601 · Other+11 more: $19,290 · Other+11 moreMI KAMCHA YISROEL INC: $64,500 · ReligionMI KAMCHA YISROEL INCCKIDS GAN ISRAEL FLORIDA INC: $25,000 · ReligionCKIDS GAN ISRAEL FLORIDA INCCHASSIDUS CENTER OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $18,000 · ReligionCHASSIDUS CENTER OF SOUTH FLORIDA…+1 more: $3,000 · ReligionTHE KOBY MANDELL FOUNDATION INC: $6,800 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $1,800 · PhilanthropyLEV LALEV INC: $360 · PhilanthropyARLEKIN PLAYERS THEATRE: $1,800 · Arts & CultureJEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC: $500 · International
Other$255,417Religion$110,500Philanthropy$8,960Arts & Culture$1,800International$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetARLEKIN PLAYERS THEATRE: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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 23 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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