· Private foundation
Morris & Jeannette Kessel Fund
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $48k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $14,000 |
| RAINFOREST TRUST | $12,000 |
| SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| OCEANA | $10,000 |
| UNITED JEWISH APPEAL | $8,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC | $5,000 |
| ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND | $5,000 |
| CARNEGIE HALL | $4,000 |
| NATIONAL WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| RIPPOWAN CISQUA SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY | $3,000 |
| NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE | $2,000 |
| KENT LAND TRUST | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of your 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.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC3× · 2021–2024 · $44k · revenue +20%- CPCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC3× · 2021–2024 · $16k · revenue +0%
- ALANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC3× · 2021–2024 · $13k · revenue +34%
Funded once
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INCone grant, 2021 · $11k · revenue -24%- MMMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +39%
INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +49%
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…
See schedule onylcv is a non-partisan policy making and political action organization that works to make environmental protection a top priority with elected officials, decision-makers and the voters by evaluating incumbent performance and…
The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.
Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Park Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Wildlife Federation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 18 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.
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST ↗
- Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY ↗
- Who funds KENT LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC ↗
- Who funds The Rippowam Cisqua School Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Morris & Jeannette Kessel Fund 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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