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The Kressel Family Foundation at a glance

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The Kressel Family 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.

$136k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$632kReligion$319kInternational$310kPhilanthropy$89kYouth Development$35kAnimals$18kEmployment$15kArts & Culture$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TZOHAR ISRAEL FOUNDATION$50,000
HAMPTON SYNAGOGUE$50,000
YESHIVA UNIVERSITY$20,000
OHR TORAH$10,000
CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL$5,000
CONGREGATION KEHILATH JESHURUN$500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $3k) 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.

area typical 10%THE BLUE CARD: $1k → 17%DOROT: $2k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of The Kressel Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 69%.

The Kressel Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 21% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 11 repeat orgs$138k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
19

Total granted

$1.3M
$88k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+11%

Still filing today

55%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalEducationPhilanthropyReligionHuman ServicesEmploymentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • YU
    YESHIVA UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2025 · $622k · revenue +39%
  • CF
    Central Fund of Israel
    7× · 2018–2025 · $250k · revenue +145%
  • TI
    TZOHAR ISRAEL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +70%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ASOR FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • TJ
    THE JAVNE FUND co ODONOGHUE & LAMB CPAS PLLC
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -63%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University of Judaism Foundation
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2
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
3
Sherit Isroel
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4
The Bnai Jacob Foundation
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5
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
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7
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
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8
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Jewish Life Foundation
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10
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
11
The Jerusalem Connection
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12
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Bar-Ilan University; the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $622,000 · EducationYESHIVA UNIVERSITY+1 more: $10,000 · EducationCentral Fund of Israel: $250,000 · InternationalCentral Fund of Israe…JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $10,000 · International+4 more: $13,600 · InternationalCONGREGATION KEHILATH JESHURUN: $51,136 · OtherCONGREGATION KEHILA…WESTHAMPTON SYNAGOGUE INC: $50,000 · OtherWESTHAMPTON SYNAGOG…MANHATTAN JEWISH EXPERIENCE SYNAGOGUE: $36,000 · OtherMANHATTAN JEWISH EX…Individual grant recipient: $35,000 · OtherIndividual grant re…BEIT CHAVERIM: $20,000 · OtherBEIT CHAVERIMFRIENDS OF ASOR FUND: $10,000 · OtherTHE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE: $10,000 · Other+11 more: $34,800 · Other+11 moreTZOHAR ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $100,000 · ReligionTZOHAR ISRA…OHR TORAH INC: $43,000 · ReligionOHR TORAH I…UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $88,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEW…PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $38,300 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL…The Abraham Foundation: $12,000 · PhilanthropyThe Abraha…THE JAVNE FUND co ODONOGHUE & LAMB CPAS PLLC: $10,000 · EmploymentANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $5,000 · Civil Rights
Education$632,000International$273,600Other$246,936Religion$143,000Philanthropy$138,800Employment$10,000Civil Rights$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $622,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $250,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTZOHAR ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $88,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOHR TORAH INC: $43,000 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $38,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Abraham Foundation: $12,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JAVNE FUND co ODONOGHUE & LAMB CPAS PLLC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NISHMAT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS CIRCLE ORGANIZATION OF YESHIVA HARAMBAN U BEIT YOSSEF INC: $5,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetDOROT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BLUE CARD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundJewish Federation of …FjcCombined Jewish Phila…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY21× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Fjc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Kressel Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kressel Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 33 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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