Carl E Kessler Family Foundation
EIN 75-2567397 · files IRS 990-PF
Where it gives
By cause and by place, from its own returns.
By cause
The cause each recipient registered with the IRS
Mostly grants abroad and recipients without a US registration. Shown, never hidden.
By place
Dollars received, by the recipient's state
half the top state or more10–50%2–10%under 2%
Grants abroad and place not on file: 310 grants · $807.0k
Who it funds most
53 of its 103 grantees were funded in more than one year.
Carl E Kessler Family Foundation's own IRS 990-PF returns, as filed, in USD
Who funds the same organisations
Counted over its 40 largest grantees, leaving out fiscal sponsors and donor-advised funds, which share an address rather than a cause. A fact, not a partnership.
Its board and officers
From its latest return.
Form 990PF Part VIII, tax year 2024, filing 202531609349100718
Name and title as its own return lists them. No pay, no address. A photograph appears only where the person's own organisation or a free licence publishes one, credited beside it; otherwise none. Anyone can ask to be removed: hello@philanova.ai.
Its money
What it gave, held and paid, by year.
Giving by year
A year with no bar has no grants on file yet: its returns may not be loaded. It is not a year without giving.
Its returns8 filings
| Tax year | Form | Filing | Where to read it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | IRS 990-PF | 202631359349101023 | IRS batch file |
| 2024 | IRS 990-PF | 202531609349100718 | IRS batch file |
| 2023 | IRS 990-PF | 202421379349101112 | IRS batch file |
| 2022 | IRS 990-PF | 202331589349100003 | IRS batch file |
| 2021 | IRS 990-PF | 202241609349100014 | IRS batch file |
| 2020 | IRS 990-PF | 202112519349100531 | IRS batch file |
| 2019 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202021979349101317 | IRS batch file |
| 2018 | IRS 990-PF | 201921309349102397 | IRS batch file |
An IRS batch file holds many returns; the filing number finds this one inside it.
The record as filedEvery table this page has always shown, in full.open
Carl E Kessler Family Foundation made 528 grants across 2018–2025, totalling $2.1m as filed.
- Grants
- 528
- Total, as filed
- $2.1m
- Years
- 2018–2025
- Filed in
- USD
Who it funds
| Organisation | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Charity Navigator | 7 | $824.8k |
| Military Museum of Fort Worth | 7 | $84.5k |
| Communities in Schools Dallas Region | 4 | $77.0k |
| Community Renewal International | 4 | $75.0k |
| Careity Foundation | 7 | $57.0k |
| Trinity Habitat for Humanity | 5 | $37.0k |
| Deki Inc | 4 | $36.0k |
| Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Services | 2 | $25.0k |
| Rainforest Trust | 4 | $23.5k |
| Mineral Wells Senior Center | 3 | $22.5k |
| Salvation Army | 1 | $22.5k |
| North Texas Giving | 1 | $22.4k |
| Salvation Army Mabee Center | 2 | $17.5k |
| Amazon Conservation Association | 4 | $16.0k |
| All Hands and Hearts | 3 | $13.5k |
By year
| Year | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 96 | $205.6k |
| 2020 | 112 | $245.7k |
| 2021 | 126 | $185.0k |
| 2022 | 148 | $403.5k |
| 2023 | 15 | $335.0k |
| 2024 | 14 | $294.6k |
| 2025 | 17 | $478.7k |
Where this came from
Identifier US-EIN-752567397. Register: Internal Revenue Service (US). Machine-readable: JSON.
What this page does not know
- Wrong if: a figure recovered from a subtotal is read as the sum of the recovered rows. A subtotal divides onto a whole penny whatever its parts did, so rows the per-row rule refuses are inside these figures.
- What they say they exist to do
- What each grant was for
- What they fund, by theme
- Balance sheet and financials
- Who runs it
- Whether they accept proposals
- Their own record on the register
- No website on file
- Leadership not yet identified