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.

Kirchgessner Vision Foundation

Kirchgessner Vision Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Kirchgessner Vision Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$598k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$105k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$2.4MEducation$720kPhilanthropy$402kHuman Services$299kArts & Culture$206kAnimals$172kInternational$158kFood & Nutrition$100kOther$0

02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k6 grants · $17k
$10k–50k17 grants · $477k
$50k–250k1 grant · $105k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$20M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES	$35,000
WESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES	$35,000
LOS ANGELES CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION	$31,500
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES	$30,000
VENICE FAMILY CLINIC	$30,000
FAMILY HEALTH CARE CENTERS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES	$30,000
HEALING CALIFORNIA	$30,000
BRAILLE INSTITUTE	$25,000
CHOC FOUNDATION	$25,000
THERAPEUTIC LIVING CENTERS FOR THE BLIND	$25,000
VALLEY COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE	$20,000
ARTSUPLA	$20,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.6M · 40 repeat orgs$383k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +29% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.6M

$356k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

+29%

Still filing today

70%

66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalReligionOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 LEARN
5× · 2020–2025 · $280k · revenue +151%
TB
The Blind Childrens Center Inc
7× · 2019–2025 · $270k · revenue +105%
VENICE FAMILY CLINIC
7× · 2019–2025 · $231k · revenue +98%

Funded once

TU
THE UCLA FOUNDATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE UNCLE CLAUDE FUND
one grant, 2019 · $150k
LA
LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK
one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -1%
MO
MEALS ON WHEELS WEST
one grant, 2020 · $50k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

University of Southern California

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…

Education

Altamed Health Services Corporation

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.

Health

California Dental Association Foundation

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.

Science & Tech

Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health

California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement

La Clinica Del Valle Family Health Care Center Inc

La clinica provides primary and preventive medical, dental, behavioral health, and other health promotion services to underserved and low-income patients.

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South Central Family Health Center

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.

Health

Doheny Eye Institute

To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).

—

Community Medical Centers Inc

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.

Health

Usc Care Medical Group Inc

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…

Health

The California Channel

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…

—

Via Care Community Health Center

Providing health care services to the poor and underserved of los angeles.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pediatric and Family Medical Center Dba Eisner Health; 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.

04the grantee network

54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

54/54

Grantees still filing

45/54

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Health$1,411,547Education$1,093,394Other$1,041,363Human Services$456,981Philanthropy$245,400International$155,527Arts & Culture$115,450

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Ralph M Parsons FoundationCA23.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kirchgessner Vision Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kirchgessner Vision Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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