· Private foundation
Kirchgessner Vision Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $477k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VISION TO LEARN | $105,000 |
| MARSHALL B KETCHUM UNIVERSITY | $45,000 |
| BEYOND BLINDNESS FORMERLY KNOWN AS BLIND CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER | $40,000 |
| WESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES | $35,000 |
| WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES | $35,000 |
| LOS ANGELES CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $31,500 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES | $30,000 |
| HEALING CALIFORNIA | $30,000 |
| VENICE FAMILY CLINIC | $30,000 |
| FAMILY HEALTH CARE CENTERS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES | $30,000 |
| CHOC FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BRAILLE INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| THERAPEUTIC LIVING CENTERS FOR THE BLIND | $25,000 |
| ARTSUPLA | $20,000 |
| VALLEY COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE | $20,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $457k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 5 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
VISION TO LEARN5× · 2020–2025 · $280k · revenue +151%- TBThe Blind Childrens Center Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $270k · revenue +105%
VENICE FAMILY CLINIC7× · 2019–2025 · $231k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- TUTHE UCLA FOUNDATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE UNCLE CLAUDE FUNDone grant, 2019 · $150k
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS WESTone grant, 2020 · $50k
- LALOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANKone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -28%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
La clinica provides primary and preventive medical, dental, behavioral health, and other health promotion services to underserved and low-income patients.
To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.
To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).
The organization provides primary medical, behavior health, and dental care to the population of san joaquin, and solano counties without regard to patients' ability to pay.
To promote health by engaging in the practice of medicine for patients of hospitals affiliated with the university of southern california keck school of medicine and elsewhere. to provide medical care to the sick and injured who may come…
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
Providing health care services to the poor and underserved of los angeles.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pediatric and Family Medical Center Dba Eisner Health and the most unlike its peers is Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 80 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds VISION TO LEARN ↗
- Who funds The Blind Childrens Center Inc ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VENICE FAMILY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Wayfinder Family Services ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL B KETCHUM UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds International Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America ↗
- Who funds THERAPEUTIC LIVING CENTERS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds VALLEY COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE LOS ANGELES FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds CHOC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEALING CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds ARTSUP LA ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HEALTH CARE CENTERS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BLINDNESS ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOC OF OC ↗
- Who funds Academy of Music for the Blind ↗
- Who funds PEDIATRIC AND FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER DBA EISNER HEALTH ↗
- Who funds JVS SOCAL ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · Henry L Guenther Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Lon V Smith Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Ahmanson Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · QueensCare · The Rose Hills Foundation · California Physicians' Service Fdn Dba Blue Shield of California Fdn
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Kirchgessner Vision Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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