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Bakersfield Memorial Hospital

BAKERSFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL (bmh) is dedicated to delivering health services that are compassionate, high-quality and affordable.

$16M
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$14M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$86MEducation$252kHuman Services$120kCrime & Legal$75kHousing & Shelter$70kYouth Development$52kInternational$39kFood & Nutrition$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $230k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+3 grants · $16M
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DIGNITY HEALTH MEDICAL FOUNDATION$13,677,360
CALIFORNIA HEALTH FOUNDATION AND TRUST$1,231,858
BAKERSFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$956,116
FLOOD BAKERSFIELD MINISTRIES INC$50,000
YOUTH CONNECTION INC$37,500
TEEN CHALLENGE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$37,500
KERN PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES$25,000
KERN COUNTY NETWORK FOR CHILDREN$25,000
LINKS FOR LIFE INC$25,000
KERN COUNTY CANCER FOUNDATION$22,500
CITYSERVE NETWORK$20,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CA$20,000
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE ASSOCIATION OF KERN COUNTY INC$17,250
RE-PLATE INC$5,590
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $473k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GROSSMAN BURN FOUNDATION: $13k → 14%HOFFMAN HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY INC: $27k → 18%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF FRESNO: $15k → 19%HOFFMAN HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY INC: $17k → 18%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF FRESNO: $14k → 19%HEALTH THROUGH WHOLENESS INC: $10k → 18%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF FRESNO: $8k → 19%WOUNDED HEROES FUND KERN COUNTY CHAPTER: $7k → 18%THE HOPE CENTER INC: $6k → 18%HOFFMANN HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY INC DBA HOFFMANN HOSPICE: $22k → 18%HOFFMANN HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY DBA HOFFMANN HOSPIC: $19k → 18%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN: $7k → 18%ST VINCENT DE PAUL STORE INC: $38k → 18%THE OPEN DOOR NETWORK: $13k → 18%BAKERSFIELD ARC INC: $15k → 18%BAKERSFIELD KERN REGIONAL HOMELESS COLLABORATIVE: $8k → 18%BAKERSFIELD KERN REGIONAL HOMELESS COLLABORATIVE: $8k → 18%ALPHA HOUSE A PLACE FOR NEW BEGINNINGS: $38k → 18%GARDEN PATHWAYS INC: $55k → 18%GARDEN PATHWAYS INC: $54k → 18%FLOOD BAKERSFIELD MINISTRIES INC: $50k → 18%KERN COUNTY NETWORK FOR CHILDREN: $25k → 18%HOUSING & OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION OF KERN: $7k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$87M · 21 repeat orgs$467k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
23

Total granted

$87M
$327k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
0%

Still filing today

95%
96%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $141k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEducationYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther

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

  • DH
    DIGNITY HEALTH MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $68M · revenue +81%
  • BM
    BAKERSFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.7M · revenue +71%
  • DH
    DIGNITY HEALTH
    4× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • CE
    CASA ESPERANZA TRANSITIONAL HOME FOR WOMEN
    one grant, 2024 · $38k · revenue -34%
  • AH
    Alpha House A Place for New Beginnings
    one grant, 2024 · $38k · revenue -73% · 30% of their budget
  • SV
    ST VINCENT DE PAUL CENTER OF BAKERSFIELD
    one grant, 2024 · $38k · revenue 0%

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.

1
Bakersfield Recovery Services

Provide residential and outpatient treatment for drug and alcohol abuse.

Health
2
Kern Medical Center Foundation

Kern medical center foundation is dedicated to promote education and programs that support the mission of kern medical center

Health
3
Epilepsy Society of Kern County
Health
4
United Way of Central Eastern California Dba United Way of Kern County

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…

Philanthropy
5
Shielding the Frontline Kern County Inc

Committed to serving our Kern County frontline emergency responders by facilitating free, confidential counseling services specializing in trauma, behavioral health, and family support.

Health
6
Kern Economic Development Corporation

Attracting new business & industry to all cities & communities in kern county. retain existing industry & compile data to attract new industry.

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7
Volunteer Center of Kern County Inc

Provide the community with volunteer services

Philanthropy
8
Legacy Behavioral Services Inc

To unlock the potential of families and individuals. to develop employees that model integrity and healthy living. to build a legacy for all of our clients.

Human Services
9
Central California Food Bank

Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…

Food & Nutrition
10
Baker Family Foundation of California

To serve individuals and families by providing them with the charitable and educational resources needed to overcome hardship and improve their lives, health and career.

Philanthropy
11
Pathway Family Services Inc

None

Human Services
12
Kern Regional Center

To provide quality services and support in a cost effective manner to people with developmental disabilities. kern regional center is one of the 21 regional centers in california, 100% funded by the state of california department of…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bethany Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Harvey L Hall Charitable Family Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr14%14%5–10yr18%31%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr14%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr18%3%10–20yr17%1%20–35yr13%83%35–55yr14%13%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/51
the rest of the field
13%
2,309/17,899

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.

04the grantee network

50 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
29/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DIGNITY HEALTH MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $67,877,289 · HealthDIGNITY HEALTH MEDICAL FOUNDATIONBAKERSFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $4,674,740 · HealthBAKERSFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION+12 more — $2,892,526 · HealthCALIFORNIA HEALTH FOUNDATION AND TRUST — $9,371,541 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA H…+2 more — $22,500 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD FOUNDATION — $1,366,550 · Education+1 more — $10,000 · EducationGarden Pathways Inc — $108,275 · Human ServicesHoffmann Hospice of The Valley — $85,201 · Human ServicesFLOOD BAKERSFIELD MINISTRIES INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesKERN PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES — $45,000 · Human ServicesAlpha House A Place for New Beginnings — $37,500 · Human ServicesST VINCENT DE PAUL CENTER OF BAKERSFIELD — $37,500 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities of the Diocese of Fresno — $36,548 · Human ServicesKern County Network for Children — $25,000 · Human Services+9 more — $92,833 · Human ServicesCITYSERVE NETWORK — $95,285 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KERN COUNTY — $52,100 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH CONNECTION INC — $37,500 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $25,200 · OtherKEEPERS OF THE CROSS — $25,000 · OtherBETHANY SERVICES INC — $15,500 · OtherCASA ESPERANZA TRANSITIONAL HOME FOR WOMEN — $38,250 · OtherCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF KERN COUNTY — $37,800 · OtherMorning Star Fresh Food Ministry Inc — $10,000 · OtherBakersfield Symphony Orchestra Inc — $15,000 · OtherThe Wildlands Conservancy — $12,500 · Other+2 more — $12,590 · OtherGlobal Family Care Network Inc — $39,375 · International
Health$75,444,555Philanthropy$9,394,041Education$1,376,550Human Services$517,857Youth Development$147,385Other$229,340International$39,375

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDIGNITY HEALTH MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $67,877,289 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA HEALTH FOUNDATION AND TRUST — $9,371,541 over 9y, 4.2% of budgetBAKERSFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $4,674,740 over 9y, 24% of budgetDIGNITY HEALTH — $2,151,785 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD FOUNDATION — $1,366,550 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetDIGNITY COMMUNITY CARE — $489,066 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGarden Pathways Inc — $108,275 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCITYSERVE NETWORK — $95,285 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHoffmann Hospice of The Valley — $85,201 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTEEN CHALLENGE OF SOUTH CALIF INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLINKS FOR LIFE — $68,025 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KERN COUNTY — $52,100 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetKERN PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES — $45,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetGlobal Family Care Network Inc — $39,375 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCASA ESPERANZA TRANSITIONAL HOME FOR WOMEN — $38,250 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF KERN COUNTY — $37,800 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetAlpha House A Place for New Beginnings — $37,500 over 1y, 30% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL CENTER OF BAKERSFIELD — $37,500 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Diocese of Fresno — $36,548 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $25,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKern County Network for Children — $25,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE ASSOCIATION OF KERN COUNTY — $24,250 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetBAKERSFIELD KERN REGIONAL HOMELESS COLLABORATIVE — $16,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBETHANY SERVICES INC — $15,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBakersfield Symphony Orchestra Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBakersfield Arc Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCBCC FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY WELLNESS INC — $14,900 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetKERN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGrossman Burn Foundation — $12,500 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetThe Wildlands Conservancy — $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR NETWORK — $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget911 AT EASE INTERNATIONAL INC — $12,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetALPHA PSI EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP AND LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetVALLEY CHILDREN'S MEDICAL GROUP — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Harvey L Hall Charitable Family Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetMorning Star Fresh Food Ministry Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHealth Through Wholeness Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetMENDIBURU MAGIC FOUNDATION AGAINST CANCER — $7,500 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetHOUSING AND OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION OF KERN — $7,250 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetJJs Legacy — $7,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSt Francis School Foundation Inc — $7,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN — $6,933 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED HEROES FUND KERN COUNTY — $6,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetThe Hope Center Inc — $6,150 over 1y, 2.7% of budget
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.

Dignity HealthKern Community Founda…The Virginia and Alfr…San Joaquin Community…Valley Strong Cu Fka …Diane S Lake Charitab…Amicus FoundationKaiser Foundation Hos…For All the Children …William & Florence Wh…Seedcore FoundationThe California Endowm…
Dignity HealthAZ62.7× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Bakersfield Memorial Hospital 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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