The Kessel Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812422445
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Fairfield, IA, USA
- Phone
- 6414723161
- Rating
- 50
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Birth Defects, Genetic Diseases Research
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $161,674
- Expenses
- $177,072
- Assets
- $149,458
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Christie Kessel (President)
- Alex Kessel (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Aaron Kness (Treasurer)
- Christie Kessel (President)
- Alex Kessel (Vice President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Support to families in need for children's medical bills due to serious/chronic medical issues.
What it reported doing in 2025
Direct grants to families in need due to children's serious/chronic medical conditions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 11
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 11.4%; rating input score 11
- Program expense ratio: 10.4%; rating input score 10
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.5%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.84; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -14.6% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 11.4% of revenue deployed · 10.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $18K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 11/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.