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Clifford & Bradford Athletic Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$73k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$328kEducation$64kHealth$11kReligion$1k
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$100k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BAKERSFIELD COLLEGE FOUNDATION$15,000
RENEGADE DIAMOND CLUB$10,000
THE BOB ELIAS KERN COUNTY SPORTS HA$10,000
BAKERSFIELD SOUTHWEST BASEBALL$5,500
SHAKE-A-LEG MIAMI$5,000
HAIL MARY CLUB$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
WASCO FAMILIES WRESTLING FOUNDATION$5,000
LIGHT BRIGADE$3,500
BAKERSFIELD JOCKEY CLUB$2,500
GARCES MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL$1,500
BAKERSFIELD BLACK AND GOLD BASEBALL$1,000
ST FRANCIS SCHOOL FOUNDATION$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
HIGHLAND HIGH SCHOOL$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%PERU STATE COLLEGE: $20k → 14%GIANTS YOUTH BASEBALL: $1k → 10%RENEGADE HELMET CLUB: $13k → 18%PLAY YOUR GAME: $5k → 18%SHAKE-A-LEG MIAMI: $5k → 15%PERU STATE COLLEGE: $10k → 14%RENEGADE HELMET CLUB: $2k → 18%SHAKE-A-LEG MIAMI: $5k → 15%PERU STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 14%PERU STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 14%BAKERSFIELD JOCKEY CLUB: $3k → 18%WASCO FAMILIES WRESTLING FOUNDATION: $5k → 18%WASCO FAMILIES WRESTLING FOUNDATION: $5k → 18%CALIFORNIA STATE BAKERSFIELD UNIVER: $10k → 18%WASCO AA BOOSTERS: $4k → 18%WASCO AA BOOSTERS: $3k → 18%HAIL MARY CLUB: $5k → 18%HAIL MARY CLUB: $5k → 18%BAKERSFIELD MAVERICKS BASEBALL CLUB: $1k → 18%MONSIGNOR CRAIG HARRISON YOUTH ATHL: $10k → 18%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $20k → 18%BAKERSFIELD COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15k → 18%BAKERSFIELD COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $13k → 18%BAKERSFIELD COLLEGE ATHLETICS: $13k → 18%BAKERSFIELD COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 18%BAKERSFIELD COLLEGE ATHLETICS - GAD: $8k → 18%BAKERSFIELD COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $6k → 18%GARCES MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL: $2k → 18%GARCES MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL: $2k → 18%RENEGADE DIAMOND CLUB: $20k → 18%RENEGADE DIAMOND CLUB: $20k → 18%BAKERSFIELD NORTHWEST BASEBALL: $5k → 18%RENEGADE DIAMOND CLUB: $10k → 18%BAKERSFIELD CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $1k → 18%RENEGADE DIAMOND CLUB: $10k → 18%RENEGADE DIAMOND CLUB: $10k → 18%SHAFTER HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 18%BVC BOOSTERS: $2k → 18%BVC BOOSTERS: $2k → 18%EAST HIGH SCHOOL - BASEBALL PROGRAM: $8k → 18%EAST HIGH SCHOOL - BASEBALL PROGRAM: $5k → 18%LIGHT BRIGADE: $4k → 18%THE LIGHT BRIGADE: $3k → 18%LIGHT BRIGADE: $3k → 18%BAKERSFIELD BANDITS FOOTBALL: $3k → 18%THE LIGHT BRIGADE: $3k → 18%LIGHT BRIGADE: $2k → 18%THE LIGHT BRIGADE: $2k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$315k · 19 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
24

Total granted

$315k
$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-16%
+50%

Still filing today

37%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationRecreation & SportsHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • RD
    RENEGADE DIAMOND CLUB
    5× · 2017–2024 · $70k
  • BC
    BAKERSFIELD COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2024 · $44k · revenue -16%
  • TB
    THE BOB ELIAS KERN COUNTY SPORTS HA
    6× · 2017–2024 · $39k

Funded once

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • SH
    SHAFTER HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • MC
    MONSIGNOR CRAIG HARRISON YOUTH ATHL
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Baker Baseball Booster Inc

To promote and support Baker High School Baseball Program

Recreation & Sports
2
Baker Soccer United

Support Baker City Soccer.

Recreation & Sports
3
Baker Baseball Association

Local baseball association

Recreation & Sports
4
Bakersfield Police Activities League

the organization's mission is the prevention of juvenile delinquency in kern county.

Youth Development
5
Central California Blast

A travel baseball and softball club located in Bakersfield, California for boys and girls 13 and under.

Recreation & Sports
6
Martinez Baseball Club
Recreation & Sports
7
Nor Cal Batbusters

Nor Cal Batbusters promoted and provided the student athlete the opportunity to learn and play the game of softball. Resources were dedicated to developing and maintaining basic fundimental skills in players while emphasizing the value of…

Recreation & Sports
8
Baldwinsville Baseball Booster Club
Recreation & Sports
9
So Cal Aces Baseball Club

Youth sports

Religion
10
Harry Bridges Little League

Little league baseball

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11
Burbank High Baseball Booster Club

Promote and support baseball program

Philanthropy
12
Marauders Baseball Club

Youth Baseball league

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bakersfield Southwest Baseball Inc; the most unlike its peers is Firecrackers - Escarcega. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 54 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RENEGADE DIAMOND CLUB: $70,000 · OtherRENEGADE DIAMOND CLUBTHE BOB ELIAS KERN COUNTY SPORTS HA: $39,000 · OtherTHE BOB ELIAS KERN COUNTY SPORTS HAPERU STATE COLLEGE: $30,041 · OtherPERU STATE COLLEGEBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $20,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBBAKERSFIELD COLLEGE ATHLETICS: $14,519 · OtherLight Brigade: $14,000 · OtherEAST HIGH SCHOOL - BASEBALL PROGRAM: $12,600 · OtherCALIFORNIA STATE BAKERSFIELD UNIVER: $10,500 · Other+35 more: $97,471 · Other+35 moreBAKERSFIELD COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $44,376 · EducationBAKERSFIELD COLLEGE F…Renegade Helmet Club CO Brown Armstrong Accountancy Corporat: $14,000 · EducationRenegade Helmet Club …Peru State College Foundation: $12,675 · EducationPeru State College Fo…BAKERSFIELD CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationBAKERSFIELD CATHOLIC …+1 more: $1,377 · EducationSHAKE A LEG MIAMI INC: $10,000 · HealthBakersfield Recovery Services: $500 · HealthBAKERSFIELD SOUTHWEST BASEBALL INC: $5,500 · Recreation & SportsNorthwest Bakersfield Baseball: $500 · Recreation & SportsFIRECRACKERS - ESCARCEGA: $250 · Recreation & SportsBakersfield Braves Baseball Club: $1,500 · Youth Development
Other$308,131Education$77,428Health$10,500Recreation & Sports$6,250Youth Development$1,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBAKERSFIELD COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $44,376 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLight Brigade: $14,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetRenegade Helmet Club CO Brown Armstrong Accountancy Corporat: $14,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetPeru State College Foundation: $12,675 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSHAKE A LEG MIAMI INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBAKERSFIELD CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBakersfield Braves Baseball Club: $1,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetBAKERSFIELD CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $1,377 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Francis School Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNorthwest Bakersfield Baseball: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBakersfield Recovery Services: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRECRACKERS - ESCARCEGA: $250 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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 BAKERSFIELD COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Light Brigade ↗
  • Who funds Renegade Helmet Club CO Brown Armstrong Accountancy Corporat ↗
  • Who funds Peru State College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SHAKE A LEG MIAMI INC ↗
  • Who funds BAKERSFIELD SOUTHWEST BASEBALL INC ↗
  • Who funds BAKERSFIELD CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Bakersfield Braves Baseball Club ↗
  • Who funds BAKERSFIELD CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds St Francis School Foundation Inc ↗

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.

Kern Community Founda…Diane S Lake Charitab…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Kern Community FoundationCA19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kern Community Foundation · Diane S Lake Charitable Trust Lake Diane S Ttee · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Clifford & Bradford Athletic Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Clifford & Bradford Athletic Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Clifford & Bradford Athletic Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Clifford & Bradford Athletic Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 54 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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