· Private foundation
Jim and Elouise Elder Foundation a Private Foundation
Jim Elder was an impoverished youth from Arkansas who came to Kern County after service in the US Navy.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $435k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| Covenant Community Services | $85,000 |
| Bakersfield College Foundation' | $50,000 |
| Kern Youth Rugby | $30,000 |
| The Open Door Network | $25,000 |
| Kern Dance Alliance | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| The League oof Dreams | $25,000 |
| Bakersfield Rescue Mission | $25,000 |
| Together spay it Forward | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $110k) 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
6 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. 6 of the 11 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: Kern Community Foundation · The Virginia and Alfred Harrell Foundation · Resnick Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jim and Elouise Elder Foundation a Private Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jim and Elouise Elder Foundation a Private Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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