· Private foundation
Amicus Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| GRACES MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| RIVERLAKES CHURCH | $4,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| CAHP WIDOWS & ORPHANS TRUST FUND | $1,500 |
| ENNIS BOOSTER CLUB | $1,000 |
| WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA | $500 |
| GUIDEPOSTS FOUNDATION | $300 |
| MONTANA NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION | $250 |
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 (FY17–20, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +103% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- NCNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC3× · 2021–2024 · $2.1M · revenue ×103
- BCBAKERSFIELD CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER3× · 2017–2021 · $105k · revenue +134%
- MVMADISON VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2021 · $98k · revenue +224%
Funded once
- CNCITYSERVE NETWORKone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -79%
- CFCOMMUNITAS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $45k
- APAFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $30k
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
The mission of the California Farmland Trust is to help farmers protect the best farmland in the world.
Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…
Dedicated to assisting kern county residents who need financial assistance in obtaining treatment for cancer and associated diseases.
Equipping followers of christ to give wisely to advance his kingdom by inspiring biblical stewardship and generosity.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
Ccof certification services, llc, a wholly owned subsidiary of california certified organic farmers inc., provides a wide array of cost-effective, organic certification programs. ccof certifies farm and livestock operations, processors,…
The mission of the united way of kern county is to "mobilize donors, advocates and volunteers to improve lives in kern county." the organization accomplishes this by raising and investing financial resources in programs that advance the…
To provide Christian Radio Broadcasts.
The league of california community foundations promotes and strengthens community foundations in california. through collaboration and shared learning among member foundations and building partnerships with private and public entities, we…
Ccof advances organic agriculture for a healthy world. we accomplish our purpose through organic certification, education, advocacy and promotion. we envision a world where organic is the norm.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bakersfield Crisis Pregnancy Center and the most unlike its peers is Right to Life of Kern County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
55 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. 55 of the 123 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 NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BAKERSFIELD CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MADISON VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Pacific Justice Institute ↗
- Who funds Moms in Prayer Int'l ↗
- Who funds UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITYSERVE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Right To Life Of Kern County ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds KERN COUNTY YOUTH FOR CHRIST ↗
- Who funds DSC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROOM TREE REFUGE ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds LOVE DEAF HAITI ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURAL LEADERSHIP FOUND ↗
- Who funds Bakersfield Arc Inc ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Kern Literacy Council ↗
- Who funds STANDING WITH HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF KERN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WOMEN AT RISK INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
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: Kern Community Foundation · Dignity Health · The Skeet Varner Foundation · Bakersfield Memorial Hospital · The Virginia and Alfred Harrell Foundation · Robert Grimm Family Foundation · Diane S Lake Charitable Trust Lake Diane S Ttee · The Cynthia Lake Charitable Trust · Seedcore Foundation · Valley Strong Cu Fka Kern Schools Federal Credit Union · Blue Adobe Foundation · Semloh 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 Amicus Foundation 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.