· Private foundation
Harry and Ethel West Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $122k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $36,970 |
| RESURRECTION CHURCH | $30,000 |
| KERN CO MUSEUM | $24,950 |
| BAKERSFIELD HOMELESS CENTER | $18,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF KERN COUNTY | $12,000 |
| FLOOD MINISTRIES | $9,000 |
| ALLIANCE AGAINST FAM VIOLENCE | $6,000 |
| ASISTANCE LEAGUE OF BAKERSFIELD | $5,530 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| GLOBAL FAMILY CARE NETWORK | $5,125 |
| COYOTE CLUB | $5,000 |
| JJ'S LEGACY | $5,000 |
| CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC | $5,000 |
| THE CAT PEOPLE | $5,000 |
| BRIDGES FOR PEACE | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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 +40% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 31 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- BSBETHANY SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $153k · revenue +63%
- BMBAKERSFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL2× · 2018–2024 · $65k · revenue +53%
- CSCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $59k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $40k
- HBHOUCHIN BOOD BANKone grant, 2017 · $10k
- DSDEVELOPMENT SERVICES SUPPLY FDNone grant, 2022 · $7k
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.
Assure community services to children
The Bakersfield Museum of Art inspires and engages diverse audiences by providing a broad spectrum of creative visual arts experiences through the exhibition and preservation of fine art, educational programs, community outreach and…
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
Displaying historical artifacts pertaining to the Los Angeles and San Fernando Valley areas for the education and benefit of the public.
Bakersfield Parent Nursery is a parent cooperative preschool serving children and families from our community.
Education
Operation of a foster family care agency
To create, promote and enhance business opportunities for our membership, and provide business, cultural and resource linkages, with special emphasis on the Hispanic community.
Provide the community with volunteer services
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.…
Support of local law enforcement
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bakersfield Crisis Pregnancy Center and the most unlike its peers is West Kern Oil Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 93 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 BETHANY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BAKERSFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VALLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds COYOTE CLUB ↗
- Who funds Global Family Care Network Inc ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF BAKERSFIELD ↗
- Who funds THE CAT PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds Country Christian School Inc ↗
- Who funds Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds BAKERSFIELD CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
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: Ben H and Gladys Arkelian Foundation · Kern Community Foundation · The Virginia and Alfred Harrell Foundation · Bakersfield West Rotary-Stroope Family Foundation · Diane S Lake Charitable Trust Lake Diane S Ttee · The Cynthia Lake Charitable Trust · Resnick Foundation · Dignity Health · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Harry and Ethel West 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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