Arizona · Public charity
Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
BAKERSFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL (bmh) is dedicated to delivering health services that are compassionate, high-quality and affordable. We promote healthy lifestyles as an integral part of the community we serve, with a special concern for the underserved.
- $16M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $13,677,360
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2B
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 47% of the organizations Bakersfield Memorial Hospital funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $228k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $16M | 36% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $8.3M | 47% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $7.8M | 17% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $4.9M | 33% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $1.4M | 38% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $21M | 43% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $8.4M | 29% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $14M | 36% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dignity Health Medical Foundation | $67,877,289 | 8 | 2% |
| California Health Foundation and Trust | $9,371,541 | 9 | 4% |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital Foundation | $4,674,740 | 9 | 24% |
| Dignity Health | $2,151,785 | 4 | 0% |
| California State University Bakersfield Foundation | $1,366,550 | 7 | 4% |
| Dignity Community Care | $489,066 | 3 | 0% |
| Garden Pathways Inc | $108,275 | 2 | 3% |
| Cityserve Network | $95,285 | 6 | 0% |
| Hoffmann Hospice of The Valley | $85,201 | 4 | 0% |
| Teen Challenge of South Calif Inc | $75,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 49 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Bakersfield Memorial Hospital supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 43 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Dignity Health · Kern Community Foundation · The Virginia and Alfred Harrell Foundation · San Joaquin Community Hospital dba Adventist Health Bakersfield · Valley Strong Cu Fka Kern Schools Federal Credit Union · Diane S Lake Charitable Trust Lake Diane S Ttee · Amicus Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · For All the Children Foundation · William & Florence Wheeler Foundation · Seedcore Foundation · The California Endowment
How this is measured
About Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
- How much does Bakersfield Memorial Hospital give?
- Bakersfield Memorial Hospital reported 14 grants totaling $16,241,119 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bakersfield Memorial Hospital fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (99%), Education (0%), Human Services (0%).
- Who are Bakersfield Memorial Hospital's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Dignity Health Medical Foundation ($68M), California Health Foundation and Trust ($9.4M), Bakersfield Memorial Hospital Foundation ($4.7M).
- Does Bakersfield Memorial Hospital fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bakersfield Memorial Hospital?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dignity Health, Kern Community Foundation, The Virginia and Alfred Harrell Foundation.
- Where is Bakersfield Memorial Hospital based?
- Bakersfield Memorial Hospital is based in AZ.
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