· Public charity
Bakersfield North Rotary Foundation
The mission of BAKERSFIELD NORTH ROTARY FOUNDATION is to support charities in the greater bakersfield area, particularly those serving children and youth, and to support the club-sponsored interact and rotaract clubs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $41,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $135,735 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $94,235 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF KERN COUNTY | $20,000 |
| THE MISSION AT KERN COUNTY | $15,000 |
| BAKERSFIELD MUSEUM OF ART | $6,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your 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.
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 +38% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BRBAKERSFIELD RESCUE MISSION DBA THE MISSION AT KERN COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $99k · revenue +0%
- TBTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KERN COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $96k · revenue +147%
- BABakersfield Art Foundation Inc DBA Bakersfield Museum of Art6× · 2018–2025 · $34k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- GBGREATER BAKERSFIELD VISION 2020 INCone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0% · 48% of their budget
- BMBAKERSFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +102%
- CWChurch Without Wallsone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.
The bakersfield youth symphony provides gifted young musicians an opportunity to further their education in orchestra performance. the bakersfield youth symphony also introduces its members to advanced orchestral literature and presents…
the organization's mission is the prevention of juvenile delinquency in kern county.
Membership - country club.bakersfield country club is a private family club, providing social and recreational activities for the benefit of its members and their guests. the club is committed to maintain its reputation for excellence and…
The fox theater foundation is dedicated to restoring and operating the fox theater located in bakersfield, california.
The Bakersfield Regional Ballet strives to support the dreams and development of dancers throughout the central valley and the state of California. We are committed to providing exceptional dance performances, outreach for the local…
To promote and improve upon general welfare, including but not limited to wages, hours and working conditions and to represent the occupational interest of those employees of the bakersfield police department who are designated and…
To promote art and local artists in the community.
The chamber is organized for the purpose of advancing agriculture, industrial, civic and general interest of baker county and its trade area.
To fund beautification public safety cultural and recreational projects that benefit the citizens of the city of bakersfield
To end homelessness in kern county through collaborative planning and action.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Boys and Girls Clubs of Kern County and the most unlike its peers is Church Without Walls. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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.
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 BAKERSFIELD RESCUE MISSION DBA THE MISSION AT KERN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KERN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Bakersfield Art Foundation Inc DBA Bakersfield Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds GREATER BAKERSFIELD VISION 2020 INC ↗
- Who funds Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds BAKERSFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Church Without Walls ↗
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 · Bakersfield West Rotary-Stroope Family Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Bakersfield North Rotary 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.