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· Private foundation
RAY J KAHLER TRUST
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$19k
Granted FY2024
5
Grants
1
Communities
$7k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of RAY J KAHLER TRUST’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02FY2024 · 5 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$3,250
Median grant
1
States reached
$498k
Total assets
Largest grants
- CALIFORNIA AQUATIC THERAPY$7,250
- THERAPY CENTER INC$3,500
- VISTA HILL FOUNDATION$3,250
- ARMS WIDE OPEN$2,500
- YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY$2,500
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$94k · 8 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else
8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
8
4
Total granted
$94k
$12k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+61%
+85%
Still filing today
63%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyPublic BenefitArts & CultureOther
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
- CACALIFORNIA AQUATIC THERAPY &3× · 2020–2022 · $27k · revenue +212%
- TCTHERAPY CENTER INC4× · 2021–2024 · $13k · revenue +23%
- VHVISTA HILL FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2024 · $10k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- RCRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +82%
- RJRESOUNDING JOYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +85%
- CDCASA DE AMPAROgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +44%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Rady Children's Hospital - San Diego
The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric medical services in san diego, southern riverside, and imperial counties.
Health
2
Cascadia Health
Cascadia health delivers whole health care - integrated mental health and addiction services, primary care, and housing - to support our communities and provide hope and well-being for those we serve.
Health
3
Via Rehabilitation Services Inc
Our mission is to empower people with disabilities and their familes to grow, develop, and thrive by providing essential skill-building, therapeutic, and recreational programs.
Health
4
Abilitypath
Empower people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative inclusive programs and community partnerships.
Employment
5
The Rehabilitation Center
Provides occupational, physical, and speech therapies.
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6
Capability Health & Human Services
Capability health & human services serves families and children who have been diagnosed with developmental delays and other disorders and adults with physical and intellectual limitations.
Human Services
7
Disability Rights California
Drc defends, advances, and strengthens the rights & opportunities of people with disabilities.
Civil Rights
8
The Arc of San Antonio Inc
To improve the quality of life for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and those who care for them.
Health
9
Connectability
ConnectAbility's mission is to empower those with life altering disabilities and their caregivers to reach their fullest potential.
Human Services
10
Abilitypath Housing
To advance advocacy, inclusion, and independence for people with developmental disabilities
Human Services
11
Dynamic Strides Therapy Inc
Dynamic Strides Therapy is a non-profit outpatient pediatric therapy facility that offers occupational, physical and speech therapies to children with special needs. Patients receive unique treatment that combines traditional occupational,…
Health
12
Rady Children's Hospital Research Center
Rady children's hospital research center was formed to engage in scientific medical research on behalf of rady children's hospital - san diego.
Health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa De Amparo and the most unlike its peers is Resounding Joy Inc. 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
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$46,000Recreation & Sports$27,000Health$12,000Human Services$9,000Arts & Culture$5,000Philanthropy$5,000Public Benefit$2,000
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.
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.
Boys and Girls Aid SocietyCA16× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Boys and Girls Aid Society · Pratt Memorial Fund · The Thursday Club Foundation · Art Pratt Foundation of Old Mission Rc · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organisation RAY J KAHLER TRUST 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CALIFORNIA AQUATIC THERAPY &.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~14 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.1× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 952382016 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on CALIFORNIA AQUATIC THERAPY &, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 14 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to Ray J Kahler Trust?
Find your warmest path to Ray J Kahler Trust through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines