· Private foundation
The Joan and George Kessel 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $34k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASPCA | $19,000 |
| Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America | $15,000 |
| St Jude Children's Research | $9,000 |
| Melanoma Research Foundation | $5,000 |
| The Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy | $5,000 |
| Jewish Insititute for the Blind | $2,500 |
| Wounded Warrior Project | $2,500 |
| Ramapo-Bergen Animal Refuge | $1,500 |
| Shriners Hospital | $1,000 |
| Jewish National Fund - USA | $1,000 |
| World Wildlife Fund | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 5 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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $79k · revenue +15%
- TATHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS7× · 2019–2025 · $58k · revenue +60%
- ALAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC4× · 2019–2022 · $48k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- ATAMERICAN TECHION SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · $50k
- SBSAVE BENNY AND JOSH INC D/B/A CURE CANAVAN FUNDone grant, 2019 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
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.
Jewish national fund gives all generations of jews a unique voice in building a prosperous future for the land of israel and its people.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
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To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.
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Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
National Jewish Health's mission since 1899 is to heal, discover and educate as a preeminent healthcare institution. We serve by providing the best integrated and innovative care for patients and their families; by understanding and…
To advance the science that will predict, prevent, reverse, and cure diseases of the immune system such as autoimmune disease, allergy, and asthma.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 34 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds The Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds ASTHMA & ALLERGY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Canavan Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC ↗
- Who funds RAMAPO-BERGEN ANIMAL REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE BENNY AND JOSH INC D/B/A CURE CANAVAN FUND ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds Yehudi Inc ↗
- Who funds DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Joan and George Kessel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Joan and George Kessel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Yehudi Inc: 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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