· Public charity
Bakersfield West Rotary-Stroope Family Foundation
Funding of various community services, educational programs, temporary and immediate needs of the community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $50,424 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $108,424 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $58,000 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $42k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $13,858 |
| BAKERSFIELD YOUTH SYMPHONY | $13,858 |
| BAKERSFIELD ART FOUNDATION | $13,858 |
| BAKERSFIELD WEST ROTARY CLUB - MISCELLANEOUS DONATIONS | $8,850 |
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 (FY17–23, $34k) 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Bakersfield West Rotary-Stroope Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 96% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +147% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- TBTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KERN COUNTY7× · 2017–2024 · $74k · revenue +147%
- BMBAKERSFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2020 · $37k · revenue +161%
- BWBAKERSFIELD WEST ROTARY-STROOPE FAMILY FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2024 · $29k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- TLTHE LEAGUE OF DREAMS INCone grant, 2019 · $13k · revenue +4%
- TOTHE OPEN DOOR NETWORKgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +885%
- SJSan Joaquin Community Hospital dba Adventist Health Bakersfieldgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +74%
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.
Dedicated to assisting kern county residents who need financial assistance in obtaining treatment for cancer and associated diseases.
Assure community services to children
Support of local law enforcement
Provide residential and outpatient treatment for drug and alcohol abuse.
Kern medical center foundation is dedicated to promote education and programs that support the mission of kern medical center
The Condors Community Foundation (the Foundation) mission is to support community organizations whose purpose is to enhance the health, education and general well-being of Kern County residents, particularly children and families in need.…
To end homelessness in kern county through collaborative planning and action.
Committed to serving our Kern County frontline emergency responders by facilitating free, confidential counseling services specializing in trauma, behavioral health, and family support.
Support of local retired firefighters
To create, promote and enhance business opportunities for our membership, and provide business, cultural and resource linkages, with special emphasis on the Hispanic community.
Serving the educational, financial, and emotional needs of kern county cancer patients and their families. providing assistance to individuals with financial hardship to relieve medical debt.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Assistance League of Bakersfield and the most unlike its peers is Kern County Library Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
24 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. 24 of the 30 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 THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KERN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BAKERSFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAKERSFIELD WEST ROTARY-STROOPE FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Adventist Health Physicians Network ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds BAKERSFIELD YOUTH SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds Bakersfield Art Foundation Inc DBA Bakersfield Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds THE LEAGUE OF DREAMS INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR NETWORK ↗
- Who funds San Joaquin Community Hospital dba Adventist Health Bakersfield ↗
- Who funds HEARTS CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds Magdalene Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED HEROES FUND KERN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds Bakersfield Police Activities League ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF BAKERSFIELD ↗
- Who funds JIM BURKE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF KERN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COVENANT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JJs Legacy ↗
- Who funds Global Family Care Network Inc ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Kern County Library Foundation ↗
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 · Valley Strong Cu Fka Kern Schools Federal Credit Union · Diane S Lake Charitable Trust Lake Diane S Ttee · Dignity Health · Lazzerini Family Foundation · William & Florence Wheeler Foundation · The Cynthia Lake Charitable Trust · Bakersfield North Rotary Foundation · Trichell Family Foundation · CARE - Childrens Advocates Resource Endowment · Harry and Ethel West 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 West Rotary-Stroope Family 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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