· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $320k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $450k
- $250k+1 grant · $333k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STINSON BEACH VOLUNTEER FIRE ASSN | $333,000 |
| GLIDE FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| CANAL ALLIANCE OF MARIN COUNTY | $125,000 |
| HOUSE OF BLUE HOPE | $50,000 |
| HOMEWARD BOUND OF MARIN | $50,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO-MARIN FOOD BANK | $50,000 |
| THE KITCHEN | $50,000 |
| SEEDS OF LEARNING | $40,000 |
| PROJECT OPEN HAND | $35,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICE OF MARIN | $35,000 |
| ALAMEDA FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CARPENTERS SHELTER | $20,000 |
| PLAY MARIN | $15,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $162k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +50% for those funded once.
47 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GFGLIDE FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $865k · revenue +51%
- HBHomeward Bound of Marin7× · 2019–2025 · $435k · revenue +269%
- SFSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK7× · 2019–2025 · $365k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- VVivalongraduatedone grant, 2019 · $12k · revenue +50%
- CTCommunity Transition Academyone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -45%
- TCTHE CHILD AND FAMILY NETWORK CENTERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +43%
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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…
We are Marin's champion in the movement to end domestic violence - working at the intersection of survivors, systems, and community.
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,…
Our mission is to empower youth, adults and families in our diverse community to achieve well-being, growth and success, and we envision a strong community with opportunities for all. See Schedule O for further details.
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.
Canal alliance has been the leading service provider and community advocate for marin's extremely low-income immigrant community for 39 years. each year, the organization collaborates with over 60 agencies and engages hundreds of…
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…
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…
How this is measured
29 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. 29 of the 58 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 PLAY MARIN ↗
- Who funds SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Boys to Men Mentoring Network Inc ↗
- Who funds Women Helping All People ↗
- Who funds Bridge the Gap College Prep ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE FAIR SENTENCING OF YOUTH ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA PAROLE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BOMA FOUNDATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Kustel Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kustel Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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