· Private foundation
The Kessler Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $24k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SETPATH | $300,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,302 |
| CHOICE HUMANITARIAN | $2,413 |
| CORNER CANYON HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,623 |
| AGOSTINA NOELIA PAGANO ANDRADA | $1,605 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,535 |
| KATHERINE JESUS DEBSIE SERRANO | $1,500 |
| NATALIA YAMILE CARDENAS CARATAR | $1,474 |
| MIRYAM MERCEDES MALDONADO RODRIGUEZ | $1,218 |
| GIOSMARA KATHERINE CANARTE ABAD | $1,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,109 |
| NORMA CONSTANZA MARTIN VARGAS | $1,100 |
| ANGEE CAROLINA BARBOSA GONZALEZ | $1,029 |
| MARIA CAROLINA TOVAR ANEZ | $929 |
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 US giving — 83% of grant dollars ($902k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 17% that went abroad ($185k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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
Beyond the US — 17% of all-years giving ($185k)
3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 +586795% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 20 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, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $323k 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
RISE AGAINST HUNGER INC5× · 2018–2023 · $66k · revenue +59%- AFACADEMY FOUNDATION FOR THE FUTURE2× · 2019–2021 · $65k · revenue ×5,869
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2019–2020 · $14k
Funded once
- TITHE INTERPRETER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue -1%
- FSFOUNDATION SERVING PEOPLE SAGone grant, 2021 · $72k
- SSSIXTO STALIN TUSTON TORRESone grant, 2020 · $53k
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.
Ummah relief international is a dedicated grassroots relief organization providing humanitarian services to bring help and hope to thousands of victims of natural and human disasters with quick and targeted action.
Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.
USA for UNHCR protects and supports refugees by mobilizing resources, elevating awareness, and driving action through a network of engaged supporters.
Working together to create a just and sustainable world through transformative farmer training that nourishes communities and the Earth.
URF is a 501(c)(30 nonprofit based in California. We receive funds through private donations and spend them on several programs, providing aid, rescue, and relief for Ukrainian war victims in the form of cash donations for food, shelter,…
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
To resource, train, and mobilize volunteers, churches,& other organizations to respond to disasters in the united states & world-wide
Unitus Labs provides consulting support loans grants and investments to partner organizations who are implementing innovative market-based approaches to reducing global poverty with potential for very large scale impact.
The quincy institute promotes ideas that move u.s. foreign policy away from endless war and toward vigorous diplomacy in the pursuit of international peace. qi's staff and non-resident experts expose the costs and consequences of…
U.s. digital response is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that helps governments, nonprofits, and public entities respond quickly to critical public needs. the organization serves the public by leveraging a network of pro bono…
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
Rigorous biblical and accessible education, training and resources for churches worldwide.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fisher House Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Academy Foundation for the Future. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 75 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 SETPATH ↗
- Who funds THE INTERPRETER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RISE AGAINST HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY FOUNDATION FOR THE FUTURE ↗
- Who funds Stand With Ukraine Inc dba To Ukraine With Love ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds INTERWEAVE SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HUMANITARIAN OUTREACH AND INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
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: University Impact · The Community Foundation of Utah · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Kessler Family Foundation 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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