· Public charity
Kessler Foundation Inc
The foundation has two primary missions: (1) to conduct world-class medical rehabilitation research focused on functional gains for people with disabilities and (2) to identify and fund programs to improve employment opportunities for people with disabilities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $611,791 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $685,946 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $74,155 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $156k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $450k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Washington Center for Internships & Academic Semin | $100,000 |
| LESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER | $100,000 |
| DISABILITY LEAD | $100,000 |
| STATE OF VERMONT DIVISION OF VOCATIONAL REHABILIT | $100,000 |
| Jewish Family Service of Atlantic & Cape May Count | $50,000 |
| RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $37,791 |
| ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY CENTERS ON DISABILITIES | $28,000 |
| COUNT BASIE THEATRE INC | $20,000 |
| HABCORE INC | $20,000 |
| ADLER APHASIA CENTER | $20,000 |
| MARBLEJAM KIDS INC | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES | $10,000 |
| NORTH JERSEY MASTERS-ROAD RUNNERS CLUB OF AMERICA | $6,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 19% of Kessler Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 45 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- LALESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER2× · 2018–2024 · $500k · revenue +16%
Cornell University2× · 2018–2022 · $385k · revenue +49%- COCAREER OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC4× · 2017–2021 · $165k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- SUState University of Iowaone grant, 2017 · $450k
- ESEaster Seals Serving DC MD VA Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $450k · revenue +67%
- JHJEVS HUMAN SERVICESgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $450k · revenue +51%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Abilities solutions is a 501(c)(3), incorporated in 1963 in new jersey to provide employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities and other barriers to full participation in the workforce. we achive our goals by partenering with…
The mission of the agency is to provide innovative services that support independence and community inclusion. everas provides comprehensive, lifetime services that meet their potential for independence, and improve their quality of life.…
To enable individuals who have developmental and/or physical disabilities to have the opportunity to attain their highest level of skills, purpose and independence.
To serve individuals with disabilities by educating, counseling, providing residential, social, therapeutic and employment supports, so as to empower them to achieve meaningful and valued roles in society.
Abilites Inc is a non-profit agency dedicated to facilitating integrated employment and full participation of persons with disabilities in their work and living communities. Employment is accomplished through direct service to youth and…
Viability's mission is to build a world in which individuals with disabilities and other disadvantages realize acceptance, inclusion, and access.
We provide residential, vocational, social and spiritual programs for persons with developmental disabilities. we offer opportunities to become more active and valued members of society, and to participate fully in life with dignity and…
To build the skills of individuals with varying abilities and developmental needs, by providing clinical treatment, community integration, vocational training and work opportunities in order to achieve and maintain productive lives.
To actively seek employment for individuals with psychological or physical disabilities.
Lifeworks provides education, jobs and homes for persons with developmental disabilities empowering them to lead meaningful lives within the community. our guiding principles ensure that lifeworks staff and volunteers strive to create and…
Carelink community support services of new jersey's mission is to assist adult citizens of nj living with psychiatric disability in acquiring the tools necessary to live health and fulfilling lives.
To assist rhode islanders with differing abilities in their efforts to achieve full inclusion in society and to exercise their civil and human rights through the provision of legal advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Career Opportunity Development Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Legion Fugle Hummer Post 65. 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.
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 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
107 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. 107 of the 123 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
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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.
Open a dossier: Oceanfirst Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Columbia Bank Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Provident Bank Foundation · The Jay and Linda Grunin Foundation D/B/A Grunin Foundation · New Jersey Natural Gas Company Charity Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · The Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey Inc · Catholic Human Services Foundation
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 Kessler Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Employment Horizons Inc — 90% of income from government
- Center for Family Services — 73% of income from government
- Community Health Law Project Inc — 69% of income from government
- Prevention Resources Inc — 63% of income from government
- Habcore Inc — 50% of income from government
- Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc — 46% of income from government
- New Jersey Theatre Alliance Inc — 41% of income from government
- Association of University Centers On Disabilities — 34% of income from government
- Oaks Integrated Care Inc — 31% of income from government
- Food Bank of South Jersey Inc — 30% of income from government
- Easter Seals Serving Dc Md Va Inc — 29% of income from government
- Easter Seals New Jersey Inc — 28% of income from government
- New England Business Associates Inc — 28% of income from government
- Career Opportunity Development Inc — 25% of income from government
- Abilities of Northwest Jersey Inc — 22% of income from government
- Eva's Village Inc — 19% of income from government
- Hudson Community Enterprises Inc — 16% of income from government
- Community Access Unlimited Inc — 15% of income from government
- Adler Aphasia Center — 12% of income from government
- Resources for Independent Living Inc — 11% of income from government
- Advancing Opportunities Inc — 8% of income from government
- Shore Clubhouse Inc — 7% of income from government
- Family Resource Associates Inc — 7% of income from government
- Cheshire Home Inc — 6% of income from government
- Opportunity Project Inc — 6% of income from government
- Jewish Family Services of Atlantic County Inc — 6% of income from government
- Community Options Enterprises Inc — 5% of income from government
- Jewish Vocational Service of Metrowest Inc — 4% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Alternatives Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Arc of Camden County Inc — 3% of income from government
- Collier Services - Sisters of the Good Shepherd — 3% of income from government
- The Arc of Cape May County Inc — 2% of income from government
- Count Basie Theatre Inc — 2% of income from government
- Children's Aid and Family Services Inc — 1% of income from government
- Georgian Court University — 1% of income from government
- The Arc of Essex County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Reeves - Reed Arboretum — 1% of income from government
- Mane Stream Inc — 1% of income from government
- Pillar Care Continuum — 1% of income from government
- Marblejam Kids Inc — 0% of income from government
- Community Options Inc — 0% of income from government
- Two River Theatre Company Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Arc of Atlantic County Inc — 0% of income from government
- Centrastate Medical Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.