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CARE - Childrens Advocates Resource Endowment
The primary purpose of CARE - Childrens' Advocates Resource Endowment is to raise money for the benefit of children's charities of Kern County.
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 7 grants below total $64,616 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $83,296 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $18,680 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 $10k6 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Open Door Network | $16,956 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,759 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Bakers | $9,731 |
| Valley Achievement Center | $9,689 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,354 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| Community Action Partnership | $5,127 |
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 (FY19–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 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 +51% since the first grant, against +51% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 5 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, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- TOTHE OPEN DOOR NETWORK4× · 2019–2024 · $44k · revenue +722%
- KCKERN COUNTY MUSEUM FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2019 · $35k · revenue +12%
- TBTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KERN COUNTY3× · 2018–2024 · $30k · revenue +126%
Funded once
- JCJamison Childrens Centerone grant, 2018 · $10k
- GEGOLDEN EMPIRE YOUTH TACKLE FOOTBALL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue +54%
- MRMARE Riding Centergraduatedone grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +127%
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.
assist developmentally disabled individuals.
Operate and run a boys and girls club for merced, california
The mission of the united way of kern county is to "mobilize donors, advocates and volunteers to improve lives in kern county." the organization accomplishes this by raising and investing financial resources in programs that advance the…
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…
Dedicated to assisting kern county residents who need financial assistance in obtaining treatment for cancer and associated diseases.
Provide support, networking, and education to the business community of bakersfield and kern county.
Attracting new business & industry to all cities & communities in kern county. retain existing industry & compile data to attract new industry.
Membership - country club.bakersfield country club is a private family club, providing social and recreational activities for the benefit of its members and their guests. the club is committed to maintain its reputation for excellence and…
To provide general, after school and day care, recreational, educational and social services for youths 2 through 18.
Enable young people, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances to realize their full potential as productive, responsible & caring citizens.
Provide residential and outpatient treatment for drug and alcohol abuse.
realize each persons full potential. In pursuit of that we maintain twelve group homes in eight locations, a main campus, and we run four innovative and creative day program sites, all in Marin County, California.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Boys and Girls Clubs of Kern County and the most unlike its peers is Mare Riding Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 18 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 OPEN DOOR NETWORK ↗
- Who funds KERN COUNTY MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KERN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE LEAGUE OF DREAMS INC ↗
- Who funds BETHANY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Valley Achievement Center ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN EMPIRE YOUTH TACKLE FOOTBALL INC ↗
- Who funds MARE Riding Center ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Central California South Inc ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF BAKERSFIELD ↗
- Who funds RM PYLES BOYS CAMP ↗
- Who funds MERCY FOUNDATION BAKERSFIELD ↗
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: The Virginia and Alfred Harrell Foundation · Kern Community Foundation · The Bidart Family Foundation · Diane S Lake Charitable Trust Lake Diane S Ttee · Resnick Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Bakersfield West Rotary-Stroope Family Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 CARE - Childrens Advocates Resource Endowment 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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