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The Ernest and Marilyn Kussmaul Charitable 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.

$687k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
33
Grants FY2024
32
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$18,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$55,000
Organizations funded a year
29 to 32
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
9
Total assets, FY2024
$4.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Ernest and Marilyn Kussmaul Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving33$687k9%
FY202332$372k0%
FY202232$368k3%
FY202131$184k6%
FY202029$160kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

International$487kFood & Nutrition$421kArts & Culture$373kEducation$218kHealth$169kHuman Services$68kMembership Benefit$36k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NY
NJ
CT
MO
VA
MD
KS
TN

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 15 grantees
All grantees of The Ernest and Marilyn Kussmaul Charitable Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Long Island Maritime Museum$97,50057%
West Sayville Christian School$97,500510%
Island Harvest Ltd$92,00050%
Long Island Cares Inc$92,00050%
New York Medical College$72,50050%
Johns Hopkins University$72,50050%
The Interfaith Nutrition Network Inc$67,00050%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$48,00050%
The Morgan Center$48,00054%
The Actors' Fund of America$36,00040%
Music Theatre Wichita$29,00050%
Musical Theater Heritage Inc$29,00051%
Quality Hill Productions$29,00052%
Bohemia Historical Society$14,0005n/a
Performing Arts Foundation of Kansas City$5,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($942k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Ernest and Marilyn Kussmaul Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLong Island Maritime Museum: $97,500 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetWest Sayville Christian School: $97,500 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetIsland Harvest Ltd: $92,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLong Island Cares Inc: $92,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNew York Medical College: $72,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJohns Hopkins University: $72,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Interfaith Nutrition Network Inc: $67,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $48,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Morgan Center: $48,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetThe Actors' Fund of America: $36,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMusic Theatre Wichita: $29,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMusical Theater Heritage Inc: $29,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetQuality Hill Productions: $29,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetPerforming Arts Foundation of Kansas City: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

Theater League IncMO13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Theater League 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.

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About The Ernest and Marilyn Kussmaul Charitable Foundation Inc

How much does The Ernest and Marilyn Kussmaul Charitable Foundation Inc give?
The Ernest and Marilyn Kussmaul Charitable Foundation Inc reported 33 grants totaling $686,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 32 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Ernest and Marilyn Kussmaul Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (27%), Food & Nutrition (24%), Arts & Culture (21%).
Who are The Ernest and Marilyn Kussmaul Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Long Island Maritime Museum ($98k), West Sayville Christian School ($98k), Island Harvest Ltd ($92k).
Does The Ernest and Marilyn Kussmaul Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Ernest and Marilyn Kussmaul Charitable Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Ernest and Marilyn Kussmaul Charitable Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Theater League Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Ernest and Marilyn Kussmaul Charitable Foundation Inc based?
The Ernest and Marilyn Kussmaul Charitable Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 35 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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