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Ray J Kahler Trust at a glance

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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.

$25k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$90kHuman Services$31kArts & Culture$9kPublic Benefit$2k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$466k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CALIFORNIA AQUATIC THERAPY$7,500
YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY$7,500
ANGEL FLIGHT WEST$5,000
THERAPY CENTER INC$5,000
02The need
03

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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $8k → 11%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO: $4k → 11%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $4k → 11%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $3k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $3k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$114k · 7 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
4

Total granted

$114k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+6%

Still filing today

71%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyPublic BenefitArts & CultureOther
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

  • YO
    YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +81%
  • CA
    California Aquatic Therapy & Wellness Center Inc
    3× · 2020–2022 · $27k · revenue +117%
  • TC
    THERAPY CENTER INC DBA CHALLENGE CENTER
    5× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • RC
    RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -39%
  • RJ
    Resounding Joy Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -12%
  • CD
    Casa De Amparo
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +6%
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.

1
Rady Children's Health

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,…

Health
2
Rady Children's Hospital San Diego

To restore, sustain and enhance the health and developmental potential of children through excellence in care, education, research and advocacy.

Health
3
Rady Children's Hospital Research Center

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…

Health
4
Rady Children's Health Services San Diego

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.

—
5
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
6
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
7
Alta California Regional Center Inc

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.

—
8
Via Rehabilitation Services Inc

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.

Health
9
California Pacific Medical Center Foundation

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,…

Health
10
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
11
Integrative Touch

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…

Health
12
Childrens Physical Therapy Oakland

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa De Amparo; 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.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CALIFORNIA AQUATIC THERAPY: $22,750 · OtherCALIFORNIA AQUATIC THERAPYTHERAPY CENTER INC DBA CHALLENGE CENTER: $17,750 · OtherTHERAPY CENTER INC DBA CHALLENGE CENTE…ARTS IN MOTION: $4,000 · OtherARTS IN MOTIONYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $28,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTYCasa De Amparo: $2,500 · Human ServicesCasa De AmparoCalifornia Aquatic Therapy & Wellness Center Inc: $27,000 · Recreation & SportsCalifornia Aquatic Ther…VISTA HILL FOUNDATION: $9,500 · HealthVISTA HILL FOU…ANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC: $5,000 · HealthANGEL FLIGHT W…Resounding Joy Inc: $2,500 · HealthResounding Joy…Arms Wide Open Corporation: $5,000 · Arts & CultureRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO: $5,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED THROUGH READING: $2,000 · Public Benefit
Other$44,500Human Services$30,500Recreation & Sports$27,000Health$17,000Arts & Culture$5,000Philanthropy$5,000Public Benefit$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $28,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Aquatic Therapy & Wellness Center Inc: $27,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHERAPY CENTER INC DBA CHALLENGE CENTER: $17,750 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetVISTA HILL FOUNDATION: $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetArms Wide Open Corporation: $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetResounding Joy Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCasa De Amparo: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED THROUGH READING: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

Boys and Girls Aid So…The Cushman FoundationPratt Memorial FundThe Conrad Prebys Fou…The Thursday Club Fou…Art Pratt Foundation …Samuel I & John Henry…David C Copley Founda…Jewish Community Foun…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Boys and Girls Aid Society of San Diego LtdCA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ray J Kahler Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ray J Kahler Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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