New York · Private foundation
The Kustel Fund
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.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2025
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 3%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $333,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 41
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $17M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations The Kustel Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 37 | $1.2M | 8% |
| FY2024 | 36 | $1.2M | 3% |
| FY2023 | 39 | $990k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 41 | $1.1M | 10% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $1.1M | 20% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $970k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $900k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glide Foundation | $865,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Homeward Bound of Marin | $435,000 | 7 | 1% |
| San Francisco Food Bank | $365,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Seeds of Learning | $325,000 | 7 | 18% |
| Project Open Hand | $315,000 | 7 | 0% |
| 10000 Degrees | $275,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Alameda Emergency Food DBA Alameda Food Bank | $160,000 | 7 | 1% |
| The American India Foundation | $112,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Carpenter's Shelter Inc | $110,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Ceres Community Project | $70,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Kustel Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: 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
How this is measured
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How do I get to The Kustel Fund?
Find your warmest path to The Kustel Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About The Kustel Fund
- How much does The Kustel Fund give?
- The Kustel Fund reported 37 grants totaling $1,153,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 41 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Kustel Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (19%), Human Services (13%), Civil Rights (12%).
- Who are The Kustel Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Glide Foundation ($865k), Homeward Bound of Marin ($435k), San Francisco Food Bank ($365k).
- Does The Kustel Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Kustel Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Kustel Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation, Hobsonlucas Family Foundation.
- Where is The Kustel Fund based?
- The Kustel Fund is based in NY.
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