· Private foundation
Ray J Kahler Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY | $7,500 |
| CALIFORNIA AQUATIC THERAPY | $7,500 |
| ANGEL FLIGHT WEST | $5,000 |
| THERAPY CENTER INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +45% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- YOYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY6× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +81%
- CACalifornia Aquatic Therapy & Wellness Center Inc3× · 2020–2022 · $27k · revenue +117%
- VHVISTA HILL FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2024 · $10k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- RCRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGOone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -39%
- RJResounding Joy Incone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -12%
- CDCasa De Amparoone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +6%
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.
Rady children's health (formerly rady children's hospital and health center (rchhc)) was formed to acquire, establish, maintain, conduct, operate, raise funds for, and otherwise support, directly or indirectly through its affiliates,…
To restore, sustain and enhance the health and developmental potential of children through excellence in care, education, research and advocacy.
The institute seeks to: translate research findings into new clinical tests and treatments to improve patient outcomes, enhance the knowledge in this field among current and future healthcare providers, and generate and share data and…
Rady children's health services san diego was formed to aid and assist rady children's hospital san diego in carrying out the hospital's exempt purpose.
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,…
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.
The center provides diagnostic evaluations, client coordination and lifelong planning of services for persons with developmental disabilities and their families in accordance with the lanterman developmental disabilities act.
Our mission is to empower people with disabilities and their families to grow, develop, and thrive by providing essential skill-building, therapeutic, and recreational programs.
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
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.
MISSION STATEMENT: Our mission is to provide connection, wellness, and healing opportunities that change the lives of anyone touched by pain, suffering, or health challenges. Integrative Touch is a leader in integrative medicine committed…
CPTO provides therapy services for children birth to three years old. Therapy services include early intervention physical therapy and occupational therapy. Our mission is to reduce developmental delays in young children to give them the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa De Amparo and the most unlike its peers is Ymca of San Diego County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 12 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 YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds California Aquatic Therapy & Wellness Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THERAPY CENTER INC DBA CHALLENGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds VISTA HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC ↗
- Who funds RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds Arms Wide Open Corporation ↗
- Who funds Resounding Joy Inc ↗
- Who funds Casa De Amparo ↗
- Who funds UNITED THROUGH READING ↗
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: Boys and Girls Aid Society of San Diego Ltd · The Cushman Foundation · Pratt Memorial Fund · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The Thursday Club Foundation · Art Pratt Foundation of Old Mission Rc · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · 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 organization 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.
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.