California · Private foundation
Kirchgessner Vision Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $598k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $105,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 40
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $20M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Kirchgessner Vision Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 24 | $598k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $572k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $642k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $578k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $501k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $573k | 34% |
| FY2019 | 40 | $560k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vision to Learn | $280,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Blind Childrens Center Inc | $270,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Venice Family Clinic | $231,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Wayfinder Family Services | $225,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Marshall B Ketchum University | $210,000 | 7 | 0% |
| International Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America | $200,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Therapeutic Living Centers for the Blind Inc | $185,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Los Angeles | $182,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Valley Community Healthcare | $180,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Los Angeles City College Foundation | $175,574 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 61 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($648k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kirchgessner Vision Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About Kirchgessner Vision Foundation
- How much does Kirchgessner Vision Foundation give?
- Kirchgessner Vision Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $598,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 40 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Kirchgessner Vision Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (53%), Education (16%), Philanthropy (9%).
- Who are Kirchgessner Vision Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Vision to Learn ($280k), The Blind Childrens Center Inc ($270k), Venice Family Clinic ($231k).
- Does Kirchgessner Vision Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kirchgessner Vision Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Kirchgessner Vision Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ralph M Parsons Foundation, California Community Foundation, Henry L Guenther Foundation.
- Where is Kirchgessner Vision Foundation based?
- Kirchgessner Vision Foundation is based in CA.
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