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Blue Adobe Foundation
Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k24 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $194k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $291k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAKERSFIELD PREGNANCY CENTER | $155,400 |
| CALVARY CHAPEL SOUTH LAKE TAHOE | $136,000 |
| RENO-SPARKS GOSPEL MISSION | $30,000 |
| SOUTHERN SIERRA COUNCIL BSA | $30,000 |
| PACIFIC JUSTICE INSTITUTE | $24,500 |
| LIFE CHOICES | $16,000 |
| JEWS FOR JESUS | $14,500 |
| ELEVATE CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $13,500 |
| LOVE INC | $13,000 |
| GOLDEN EMPIRE GLEANERS | $12,250 |
| AWAKEN INC | $10,000 |
| BAKERSFIELD ARC | $10,000 |
| CITY OF REFUGE | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS IN SERVICE (FISH) | $10,000 |
| CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST | $9,500 |
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 (FY17–17, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
Bible Thinker, Inc is a ministry dedicated to equipping people to think and live biblically. There are three main areas of teaching that we focus on:1. Teaching accurate theology based on exegeting the text of the Bible and confronting…
Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
Far Reaching Ministries (FRM) was founded to carry the Gospel Jesus Christ to the world with discipleship as our primary objective. We plant and edify evangelical churches, found Bible schools, gather intimate small groups, and sustain…
Freedom seekers international is a christian organization that exists to rescue the most severely persecuted for their religious faith in hostile and restrictive countries. through collaborative partnerships we deliver those who are…
To provide christian based outreach to clients by providing services and information free of charge to anyone in a crisis pregnancy situation, with the goal of assisting the client to carry the pregnancy to term and with continued care…
Life Network provides support and mentoring to women and men facing unexpected pregnancies; offers parenting support, material resources, and referrals; and promotes sexual risk avoidance through education to foster a culture that values…
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
To equip and assist christians and their churches to respond to conflict biblically.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Vision Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wounded Heroes Fund Kern County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 38 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 CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Pacific Justice Institute ↗
- Who funds LIFE CHOICES PREGNANCY CENTER ROBERTS ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN EMPIRE GLEANERS INC ↗
- Who funds Awaken INC ↗
- Who funds Bakersfield Arc Inc ↗
- Who funds City of Refuge ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED HEROES FUND KERN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CROWN FINANCIAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds The Rosser Foundation dba International Cooperating Ministries ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds LIFEWATER INC ↗
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: Blue Adobe Foundation · Amicus Foundation · Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Blue Adobe 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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