Utah · Private foundation
The Kessler Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $324k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2024
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 97%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,200
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 33
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $754k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 97% of the organizations The Kessler Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 98% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $344k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 21 | $324k | 95% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $351k | 97% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $35k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $97k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $70k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $83k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $79k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $47k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Setpath | $300,000 | 1 | 38% |
| The Interpreter Foundation | $300,000 | 1 | 20% |
| Rise Against Hunger Inc | $65,897 | 5 | 0% |
| Academy Foundation for the Future | $65,400 | 2 | 2% |
| Stand With Ukraine Inc dba To Ukraine With Love | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Team Rubicon Inc | $10,101 | 1 | 0% |
| Interweave Solutions | $9,416 | 1 | 0% |
| Fisher House Foundation Inc | $6,727 | 1 | 0% |
| Center for Humanitarian Outreach and Intercultural Exchange | $2,413 | 1 | 0% |
| United Service Organizations Inc | $1,600 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 65 recipients with no EIN on record ($300k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Kessler Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: University Impact · The Community Foundation of Utah · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Kessler Family Foundation
- How much does The Kessler Family Foundation give?
- The Kessler Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $324,337 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Kessler Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (31%), Religion (28%), Youth Development (28%).
- Who are The Kessler Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Setpath ($300k), The Interpreter Foundation ($300k), Rise Against Hunger Inc ($66k).
- Does The Kessler Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 97% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Kessler Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Kessler Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include University Impact, The Community Foundation of Utah, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is The Kessler Family Foundation based?
- The Kessler Family Foundation is based in UT.
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