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The Kustel Fund
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $410k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $445k
- $250k+1 grant · $333k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STINSON BEACH VOLUNTEER FIRE ASSN | $333,000 |
| CANAL ALLIANCE OF MARIN COUNTY | $125,000 |
| GLIDE FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| THE KITCHEN | $85,000 |
| HOMEWARD BOUND OF MARIN | $60,000 |
| HOUSE OF BLUE HOPE | $50,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO-MARIN FOOD BANK | $45,000 |
| SEEDS OF LEARNING | $40,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICE OF MARIN | $35,000 |
| PROJECT OPEN HAND | $35,000 |
| 10000 DEGREES | $30,000 |
| ALAMEDA FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| CARPENTERS SHELTER | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT | $10,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY19–24, $142k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 77% 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
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.
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.
46 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $333k 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
- GFGLIDE FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $740k · revenue +51%
- HBHomeward Bound of Marin6× · 2019–2024 · $385k · revenue +269%
- SFSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK6× · 2019–2024 · $315k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- VVivalongraduatedone grant, 2019 · $12k · revenue +50%
- HHHOPE HOUSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +68%
- TCTHE CHILD AND FAMILY NETWORK CENTERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +43%
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.
Foodwise grows thriving communities through the power and joy of local food. We envision a world that nourishes all people, local economies, and the living earth.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
The mission of the agricultural institute of marin is to educate, inspire, and connect communities, farmers, and producers in order to create a healthy, earth-friendly, equitable local and regional food and agricultural system.
We make it possible for people in marin to achieve well-being by providing the vital services they need. together, we break down the barriers that get in the way of fair and lasting change in service to better outcomes for all.
Food Rescue - The Organization rescues excess fresh food from Bay Area businesses, schools and non-profits and immediately delivers the food to safety net partners - such as senior housing centers, after-school programs, and homeless…
We are Marin's champion in the movement to end domestic violence - working at the intersection of survivors, systems, and community.
To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…
San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…
Improve the quality of life for individuals in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Solano County, Monterey County, Sacramento County and the surrounding area in the State of California.
By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…
Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marin General Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Community Transition Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 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. 27 of the 55 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 GLIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Homeward Bound of Marin ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Seeds of Learning ↗
- Who funds Project Open Hand ↗
- Who funds 10000 DEGREES ↗
- Who funds Alameda Emergency Food DBA Alameda Food Bank ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARPENTER'S SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds PLAY MARIN ↗
- Who funds Women Helping All People ↗
- Who funds Bridge the Gap College Prep ↗
- Who funds Boys to Men Mentoring Network Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE FAIR SENTENCING OF YOUTH ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA PAROLE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT INVESTING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION 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: Marin Community Foundation · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · Hobsonlucas Family Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The San Francisco Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Ayco Charitable 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 Kustel Fund 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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