· Public charity
Bakersfield Rotary- Waterman Foundation
To assist in the continued development of charitable and educational organizations.
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 4 grants below total $89,464 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $93,964 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,500 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 · $8k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $82k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CSUB | $44,000 |
| Open Door Network | $26,000 |
| Empty Space Productions | $11,964 |
| Independence Through GRACE | $7,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 100% 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.
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 +676% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
- BPBakersfield Police Activities League2× · 2017–2018 · $75k · revenue ×12
- GEGOLDEN EMPIRE GLEANERS INC2× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +30%
- TOTHE OPEN DOOR NETWORK2× · 2021–2025 · $35k · revenue +676%
Funded once
- BVBUENA VISTA MUSEUMone grant, 2019 · $31k
- WWWhite Wolf Wellness Foundationone grant, 2022 · $18k · revenue +2%
- KTKeepers Transformation Houseone grant, 2022 · $12k
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.
Provide residential and outpatient treatment for drug and alcohol abuse.
The mission of Independent Living Center of Kern County is to empower people with disabilities to grow creatively, professionally, and personally; and to educate the community about disability related issues. The vision of Independent…
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.
To meet the physical, relational and spiritual needs of the homeless, sober living home residents, motel dwellers and those entrenched in generational poverty within kern county
To end homelessness in kern county through collaborative planning and action.
Provide the community with volunteer services
Molding Heartsis a residential community designed to enrich and empower adults with life disabilities by providing quality residential care, community services, recreation, life skills, and occupational skills training.
Church Without Walls provides for spiritual & physical needs of homeless individuals in Bakersfield and the surrounding areas.
Committed to serving our Kern County frontline emergency responders by facilitating free, confidential counseling services specializing in trauma, behavioral health, and family support.
Assure community services to children
To create, promote and enhance business opportunities for our membership, and provide business, cultural and resource linkages, with special emphasis on the Hispanic community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bethany Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Independence Through Grace Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 22 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 Bakersfield Police Activities League ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN EMPIRE GLEANERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR NETWORK ↗
- Who funds White Wolf Wellness Foundation ↗
- Who funds EMPTY SPACE PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds BAKERSFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds BETHANY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Hoffmann Hospice of The Valley ↗
- Who funds Independence Through GRACE Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KERN COUNTY ↗
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 · The Virginia and Alfred Harrell Foundation · 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 Rotary- Waterman 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.
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