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Condors Community Foundation

The Condors Community Foundation (the Foundation) mission is to support community organizations whose purpose is to enhance the health, education and general well-being of Kern County residents, particularly children and families in need.

$7k
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$7k
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 2021.

Health$90kRecreation & Sports$54kYouth Development$44kCrime & Legal$31kCommunity Improvement$7k
02FY2021 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$7,117
Median grant
1
States reached
$102k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Active 20-30 Club$7,117
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 17%BARC: $7k → 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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$98k · 4 repeat orgs$130k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2021, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
11

Total granted

$98k
$130k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-59%
+66%

Still filing today

100%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21
HealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • CF
    CBCC FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY WELLNESS INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $33k · revenue -68%
  • AM
    Al Malaikah Shriners Kern County Shrine Club
    4× · 2017–2020 · $27k
  • A2
    Active 20-30 United States & Canada 27
    2× · 2018–2019 · $20k · revenue -59%

Funded once

  • KC
    Kern County Law Enforcement Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · $24k · revenue -42% · 84% of their budget
  • KC
    Kern County Hockey Clubgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $23k · revenue +78%
  • KC
    KERN COUNTY FIRE FIGHTERS BURN SURVIVORS TRUST
    one grant, 2018 · $21k · revenue +14% · 44% of their budget
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
Kern County Fire Department Retired Employees Asso

Support of local retired firefighters

Recreation & Sports
2
Bakersfield Police Activities League

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

Youth Development
3
Epilepsy Society of Kern County
Health
4
Kern County Farm Bureau

To represent, protect and advance the social, economic and educational interest of the farmers in kern county, california.

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5
Kern County Library Foundation
Education
6
Wounded Heroes Fund Kern County

The organization provides financial assistance and moral support to active, discharged and retired military service men and women, with emphasis on those injured in the iraq and afganistan conflicts.

Human Services
7
Kern County Sheriffs Mounted Posse

Provide various services for handicapped

Community Improvement
8
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Kern County

To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

Youth Development
9
Light Brigade

Supported various Kern County youth baseball programs through sponsorships and donations and equipment and supplies.

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10
Bakersfield Recovery Services

Provide residential and outpatient treatment for drug and alcohol abuse.

Health
11
Kern County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Business Education Foundation

To support and enhance business education programs, resources and economic development primarily within the business community of Kern County.

Education
12
Kern County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

To create, promote and enhance business opportunities for our membership, and provide business, cultural and resource linkages, with special emphasis on the Hispanic community.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kern County Hockey Club; the most unlike its peers is Houchin Community Blood Bank. 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

14 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. 14 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Al Malaikah Shriners Kern County Shrine Club: $26,741 · OtherAl Malaikah Shriners Kern County Shrine ClubKern County Law Enforcement Foundation: $24,435 · OtherKern County Law Enforcement FoundationActive 20-30 United States & Canada 27: $20,000 · OtherActive 20-30 United States & Canada 27MARE Riding Center: $15,750 · OtherMARE Riding CenterWASCO JUNIOR WOMANS CLUB: $7,000 · OtherWASCO JUNIOR WOMANS CLUBBAKERSFIELD POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION: $7,000 · OtherBAKERSFIELD POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATIONBRIGADE RECREATIONAL YOUTH SOCCER LEAGUE: $5,521 · OtherCBCC FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY WELLNESS INC: $33,380 · HealthCBCC FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY …KERN COUNTY FIRE FIGHTERS BURN SURVIVORS TRUST: $21,100 · HealthKERN COUNTY FIRE FIGHTERS BURN…HOUCHIN COMMUNITY BLOOD BANK: $7,000 · HealthHOUCHIN COMMUNITY BLOOD BANKKern County Hockey Club: $22,849 · Recreation & SportsKern County H…BAKERSFIELD SOUTHWEST BASEBALL INC: $5,100 · Recreation & SportsBAKERSFIELD S…Foundation of Active 20-30 Club of Bakersfield Inc: $17,455 · Human ServicesFoundation o…Bakersfield Arc Inc: $7,000 · Human ServicesBakersfield …KERN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · Community Improvement
Other$106,447Health$61,480Recreation & Sports$27,949Human Services$24,455Community Improvement$7,000

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 budgetCBCC FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY WELLNESS INC: $33,380 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetKern County Law Enforcement Foundation: $24,435 over 1y, 84% of budgetKern County Hockey Club: $22,849 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetKERN COUNTY FIRE FIGHTERS BURN SURVIVORS TRUST: $21,100 over 1y, 44% of budgetActive 20-30 United States & Canada 27: $20,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetFoundation of Active 20-30 Club of Bakersfield Inc: $17,455 over 2y, 26% of budgetMARE Riding Center: $15,750 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetBakersfield Arc Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOUCHIN COMMUNITY BLOOD BANK: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKERN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBAKERSFIELD POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION: $7,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBAKERSFIELD SOUTHWEST BASEBALL INC: $5,100 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

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…Amazonsmile Foundation
Kern Community FoundationCA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Condors Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Condors Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
    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.
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    How do I get to Condors Community Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Condors Community 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 15 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $190k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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