· Private foundation
Ben H and Gladys Arkelian Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
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 |
| TEHACHAPI BUILD-A-PLANE | $2,500 |
| BRIDGES FOR PEACE | $2,500 |
| MARE | $2,500 |
| GLOBAL FAMILY CARE NETWORK | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,400 |
| KERN COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL | $1,350 |
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 (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 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 +40% since the first grant, against +38% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BSBETHANY SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $161k · revenue +63%
- VCVALLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL4× · 2017–2020 · $45k · revenue +76%
- 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
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.
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…
How this is measured
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 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 BAKERSFIELD CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JJs Legacy ↗
- Who funds VALLEY OAK CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ben H and Gladys Arkelian Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ben H and Gladys Arkelian Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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