· Private foundation
Ben H and Gladys Arkelian Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $86k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $32,975 |
| KERN CO MUSEUM | $23,000 |
| BAKERSFIELD HOMELESS CENTER | $18,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF KERN COUNTY | $12,000 |
| FLOOD MINISTRIES | $9,000 |
| ALLIANCE AGAINST FAM VIOLENCE | $6,000 |
| CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER | $5,000 |
| JJ'S LEGACY | $5,000 |
| RESURRECTION CHURCH | $4,914 |
| GLOBAL FAMILY CARE NETWORK | $2,500 |
| MARE | $2,500 |
| TEHACHAPI BUILD-A-PLANE | $2,500 |
| BRIDGES FOR PEACE | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,400 |
| KERN COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL | $1,350 |
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 (FY17–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +40% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 6 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- BSBETHANY SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $161k · revenue +63%
- VCVALLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL4× · 2017–2020 · $45k · revenue +55%
- BMBAKERSFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL4× · 2018–2024 · $35k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $15k
- NFNICHOLAS FD FOR EDUCATIONone grant, 2017 · $7k
- KCKERN COMMUNITY FUNDone grant, 2017 · $5k
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 primary exempt purpose of children's healthcare of california includes without limitation the receipt of distributions and grants for the making of distributions and grants to children's hospital of orange county (choc) and to…
To ensure that children with complex health care needs have access to timely and high quality medical care, and that pediatric specialists are able to thrive in californias health care
To increase access to medical care for children with serious illnesses and support their families.
To support health care activities and programs for the benefit of, and to provide health care services to, children and adults in central california with diseases, disorders and other health problems of pediatric origin, and to enhance the…
The Organization provides shelter, meals, clothing and counseling for victims of domestic violence, housing crisis, and/or poverty.
To nurture, advance and protect the health and well-being of children.
Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…
Our mission is to advance the well-being of children, promote access to high quality pediatric health care, and ensure the long-term viability of childrens hospitals.
Giving our most vulnerable children support, opportunity and hope by breaking destructive cycles through community partnerships.
The mission of children's home society of california is to provide children, families, and communities with supportive services to thrive.
California Alliance of Caregivers represents the voices of relative and non-relative caregivers to promote the well-being of children in foster care. California Alliance of Caregivers provides training information support and advocacy for…
Children Now harnesses our collective power to advance equitable solutions for California's kids. Children Now breaks down systemic barriers so that all children have the services and supports they need to reach their full potential. By…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bakersfield Crisis Pregnancy Center and the most unlike its peers is Sleepy Baby Box Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
23 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. 23 of the 89 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 BETHANY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds COYOTE CLUB ↗
- Who funds BAKERSFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Global Family Care Network Inc ↗
- Who funds Christian Youth Film Society Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CAT PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds JJs Legacy ↗
- Who funds BAKERSFIELD CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY OAK CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
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: Harry and Ethel West Foundation · Kern Community Foundation · The Virginia and Alfred Harrell Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Ben H and Gladys Arkelian 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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