· Public charity
Bakersfield Rotary- Waterman Foundation
To assist in the continued development of charitable and educational organizations.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +676% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 BETHANY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BAKERSFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Hoffmann Hospice of The Valley ↗
- Who funds Independence Through GRACE Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KERN COUNTY ↗
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: Kern Community Foundation · The Virginia and Alfred Harrell Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bakersfield Rotary- Waterman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bakersfield Rotary- Waterman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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