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Kessler Family Foundation at a glance

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Kessler Family Foundation

Supports charitable, educational, & religious purposes of jewish comm federation of sf.

$216k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$429kReligion$210kHealth$208kCommunity Improvement$90kInternational$58kEducation$41kHuman Services$28kYouth Development$25k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $159,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $215,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $56,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION$50,000
COMMUNITY PARTNERS$40,000
CHABAD OF ALAMEDA$25,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER$17,500
CONGREGATION BETH ABRAHAM OF OAKLAND$17,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%REUTLINGER COMMUNITY FOR JEWISH LIVING: $20k → 9%THE FRIENDS OF THE OAKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY: $3k → 10%TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $5k → 10%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER: $18k → 17%PARTNERS IN HEALTH: $4k → 6%THE FRIENDS OF THE OAKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY: $3k → 10%TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $5k → 10%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER: $10k → 17%PARTNERS IN HEALTH: $4k → 6%CHABAD OF ALAMEDA: $25k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION: $50k → 10%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER: $8k → 17%CONGREGATION BETH ABRAHAM OF OAKLAND: $36k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION: $43k → 10%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER: $8k → 17%CONGREGATION BETH ABRAHAM OF OAKLAND: $17k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION: $42k → 10%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM HEALTH CARE CAMPUS: $8k → 17%CONGREGATION BETH ABRAHAM OF OAKLAND: $17k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION: $40k → 10%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM HEALTH CARE CAMPUS: $8k → 17%CONGREGATION BETH ABRAHAM OF OAKLAND: $12k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION: $40k → 10%BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%OAKLAND PROMISE: $6k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION: $40k → 10%OAKLAND PROMISE: $6k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION: $40k → 10%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CENTER FOUNDATION: $120k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION AND ENDOWMENT FUND OF SAN FRANCISCO: $25k → 10%OAKLAND PROMISE: $6k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION: $15k → 10%EAST BAY COLLEGE FUND DBA OAKLAND PROMISE: $6k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION: $10k → 10%TEMPLE BETH ABRAHAM: $5k → 10%OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $5k → 10%CONGREGATION BETH ABRAHAM OF OAKLAND: $5k → 10%OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND AKA OAKLAND SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%TEMPLE BETH ABRAHAM: $5k → 10%OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND AKA OAKLAND SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES EAST BAY: $8k → 10%JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE EAST BAY: $110k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES EAST BAY: $8k → 10%JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE EAST BAY: $88k → 10%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 32% of Kessler Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 88% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 82%.

Kessler Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.4% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$564k · 9 repeat orgs$179k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
4

Total granted

$564k
$154k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+33%

Still filing today

78%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalEducationPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • CP
    COMMUNITY PARTNERS
    4× · 2022–2025 · $90k · revenue +78%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER
    8× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +21%
  • BI
    BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN
    one grant, 2017 · $120k · revenue -9%
  • TR
    THE REUTLINGER COMMUNITY
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +33%
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
Sandler Foundation

The foundation operates exclusively for charitable, educational or religious purposes by conducting or supporting activities for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of the jewish community federation of san francisco, the…

Philanthropy
2
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
3
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
4
Jewish Federation of San Diego County

Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.

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5
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
6
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education
7
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

—
8
Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…

Philanthropy
9
Ucsf Health Medical Foundation

See schedule othe mission of ucsf health medical foundation is threefold: 1) to establish, operate and maintain medical clinics for the provision of healthcare services in california; 2) to promote health by providing, coordinating,…

Health
10
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
11
San Francisco Jewish Community Publications Inc

(continued from page 1) nationally and internationally. Further, J seeks to enrich the cultural, religious and social life of the community through its articles, interviews and features.

Education
12
Jewish Federation of the Sacra

To serve and enrich the Jewish community and those who support and identify with it, in the greater Sacramento area, Israel, and the world.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma; the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 15 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $344,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN F…+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF THE GREATER EAST BAY: $197,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF THE …CONGREGATION BETH ABRAHAM OF OAKLAND 327 MACARTHUR BLVD: $97,000 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH ABRAHAM OF OAKLAN…CHABAD OF ALAMEDA: $25,000 · OtherCHABAD OF ALAMEDATHE REUTLINGER COMMUNITY: $20,000 · OtherTHE REUTLINGER COMMUNITY+1 more: $6,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN: $120,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOS…JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES EAST BAY: $15,000 · HealthJEWISH FAMILY …PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $8,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HE…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER: $80,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRI…BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $40,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT I…COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $90,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY…OAKLAND PROMISE: $24,000 · EducationTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $11,000 · Education
Philanthropy$354,500Other$345,000Health$143,000International$120,000Community Improvement$90,000Education$35,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $344,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF THE GREATER EAST BAY: $197,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN: $120,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $90,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER: $80,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOAKLAND PROMISE: $24,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES EAST BAY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE OAKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY: $6,000 over 1y, 2.5% 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.

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.

Jewish Community Fede…The Jewish Community …American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Jewish Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Kessler Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kessler Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 Kessler Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 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 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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