Kessler Family Foundation

Analysis

Kessler Family Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in San Francisco, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2007, 19 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2024, Kessler Family Foundation reported income of $133k and spending of $184k, spending 138% of what it took in. Across the 6 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2024, income fell from $204k to $133k (-35%), an average of -8.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 126%. Over the whole period it spent 107% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Kessler Family Foundation sits at the 49th percentile: it is larger than about 49% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 44th percentile, and in the 46th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Carson-Tahoe Hospital Medical Staff Fund Inc ($133k), American Friends of Hospice of the Upper Galilee ($133k) and Kingfish Medfield Booster Club Inc ($133k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 62% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.4m against liabilities of $5,252, net assets of $2.4m.