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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.

$136k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$104kYouth Development$96kArts & Culture$50kCommunity Improvement$25kRecreation & Sports$15kHealth$10k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $41,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $135,735 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $94,235 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$878k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF KERN COUNTY$20,000
THE MISSION AT KERN COUNTY$15,000
BAKERSFIELD MUSEUM OF ART$6,500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $5k → 14%CHURCH WITHOUT WALLS: $5k → 18%SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $5k → 14%BAKERSFIELD MUSEUM OF ART: $8k → 18%SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $5k → 14%BAKERSFIELD MUSEUM OF ART: $7k → 18%BAKERSFIELD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $6k → 18%BAKERSFIELD MUSEUM OF ART: $5k → 18%BAKERSFIELD MUSEUM OF ART: $5k → 18%BAKERSFIELD MUSEUM OF ART: $5k → 18%BAKERSFIELD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5k → 18%BAKERSFIELD MUSEUM OF ART: $5k → 18%BAKERSFIELD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5k → 18%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.
$261k · 5 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
3

Total granted

$261k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+29%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Arts & CultureHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementReligionRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • BR
    BAKERSFIELD RESCUE MISSION DBA THE MISSION AT KERN COUNTY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $99k · revenue +0%
  • TB
    THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KERN COUNTY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $96k · revenue +147%
  • BA
    Bakersfield Art Foundation Inc DBA Bakersfield Museum of Art
    6× · 2018–2025 · $34k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • GB
    GREATER BAKERSFIELD VISION 2020 INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +29% · 48% of their budget
  • BM
    BAKERSFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +102%
  • CW
    Church Without Walls
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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
Bakersfield Youth Symphony

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…

Arts & Culture
2
The Baker Foundation
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3
Bakersfield Police Activities League

the organization's mission is the prevention of juvenile delinquency in kern county.

Youth Development
4
Baker Community Arts Association
Arts & Culture
5
Bakersfield Country Club

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…

—
6
Fox Theater Foundation

The fox theater foundation is dedicated to restoring and operating the fox theater located in bakersfield, california.

Unclassified
7
Bakersfield City Ballet

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Bakersfield Police Officers Association

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…

—
9
Bakersfield Art Association

To promote art and local artists in the community.

Arts & Culture
10
Baker County Chamber of Commerce

The chamber is organized for the purpose of advancing agriculture, industrial, civic and general interest of baker county and its trade area.

—
11
Bakersfield Foundation

To fund beautification public safety cultural and recreational projects that benefit the citizens of the city of bakersfield

Arts & Culture
12
Bakersfield Kern Regional Homeless Collaborative

To end homelessness in kern county through collaborative planning and action.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Boys and Girls Clubs of Kern County; 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.
04the grantee network

8 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BAKERSFIELD RESCUE MISSION DBA THE MISSION AT KERN COUNTY: $99,300 · Housing & ShelterBAKERSFIELD RESCUE MISSION DBA THE MI…THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KERN COUNTY: $96,456 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KERN COU…Bakersfield Art Foundation Inc DBA Bakersfield Museum of Art: $34,000 · Arts & CultureBakersfield Art Fo…Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra Inc: $15,750 · Arts & CultureBakersfield Sympho…GREATER BAKERSFIELD VISION 2020 INC: $25,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER B…SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsBAKERSFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthChurch Without Walls: $5,150 · Religion
Housing & Shelter$99,300Youth Development$96,456Arts & Culture$49,750Community Improvement$25,000Recreation & Sports$15,000Health$10,000Religion$5,150

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 budgetBAKERSFIELD RESCUE MISSION DBA THE MISSION AT KERN COUNTY: $99,300 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KERN COUNTY: $96,456 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBakersfield Art Foundation Inc DBA Bakersfield Museum of Art: $34,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER BAKERSFIELD VISION 2020 INC: $25,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetBakersfield Symphony Orchestra Inc: $15,750 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBAKERSFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetChurch Without Walls: $5,150 over 1y, 3.7% 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.

Kern Community Founda…Bakersfield West Rota…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…Amazonsmile Foundation
Kern Community FoundationCA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Bakersfield North Rotary Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bakersfield North Rotary Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 8 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 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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