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Kern Community Foundation

KERN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION's mission is growing community and growing philanthropy.

$5.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$2.9M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$4.3MEnvironment$3.9MReligion$1.9MHealth$1.5MYouth Development$1.3MArts & Culture$1.1MPhilanthropy$947kHuman Services$887kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $404k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+1 grant · $2.9M
$40,585
Median grant
3
States reached
$46M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AERA ENERGY FUND$2,918,446
YOUTH FOR CHRIST KERN COUNTY FUND$243,000
LINKED FUND$229,000
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD$219,066
UPPER KERN FISHERIES ENHANCEMENT FUND$204,886
AERA ENERGY FUND FOR CONSERVATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT$150,000
HAY FAMILY FOUNDATION FUND$129,041
ROD STIEFVATER FOUNDATION FUND$124,560
BAKERSFIELD MUSEUM OF ART FUND$100,561
SOUTHERN SIERRA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - CAMP KERN FUND$89,611
MCCARTHY FAMILY FUND$82,600
KERN AND DANCE ALLIANCE$81,000
BATEY CHARITABLE FUND$78,500
BOREL FIRE RELIEF FUND$64,575
CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY SAN LUIS OBISPO$41,375
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $958k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SYMPHONY OF HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 9%CALIFORNIA SERVICE DOG ACADEMY: $6k → 18%HOFFMANN HOSPICE: $38k → 18%MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $12k → 10%HOFFMANN HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY INC: $25k → 18%VISALIA EMERGENCY AID COUNCIL: $3k → 18%DYNAMIC CHURCH PLANTING INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 11%TRINITY MEDICAL TRANSPORT FOUNDATION: $2k → 18%WOUNDED HEROES FUND: $31k → 18%WOUNDED HEROES FUND: $25k → 18%WOMEN'S CENTER-HIGH DESERT INC: $28k → 18%CALIFORNIA VETERANS ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $42k → 18%CALIFORNIA VETERANS ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $28k → 18%BAKERSFIELD SENIOR CENTER INC: $17k → 18%BAKERSFIELD ANGELS: $61k → 18%HOFFMANN HOSPICE: $25k → 18%HOFFMANN HOSPICE: $20k → 18%HOFFMANN HOSPICE: $9k → 18%HOFFMANN HOSPICE: $6k → 18%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN: $48k → 18%HENRIETTA WEILL MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC: $33k → 18%HENRIETTA WEILL MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC: $23k → 18%HENRIETTA WEILL MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC: $23k → 18%HENRIETTA WEILL MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC: $21k → 18%HENRIETTA WEILL MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC: $21k → 18%HENRIETTA WEILL MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC: $21k → 18%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN: $8k → 18%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN: $6k → 18%MADOROM FOUNDATION: $2k → 18%SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL: $6k → 18%KERN PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $11k → 18%KERN PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $11k → 18%SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL: $4k → 18%ALPHA HOUSE A PLACE FOR NEW BEGINNINGS: $10k → 18%GARDEN PATHWAYS INC: $87k → 18%GARDEN PATHWAYS INC: $49k → 18%GARDEN PATHWAYS INC: $45k → 18%GARDEN PATHWAYS INC: $16k → 18%ALLIANCE AGAINST FAMILY VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT: $15k → 18%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $14k → 18%GARDEN PATHWAYS INC: $12k → 18%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $11k → 18%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $11k → 18%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF FRESNO: $10k → 18%ALLIANCE AGAINST FAMILY VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT: $8k → 18%ALLIANCE AGAINST VIOLENCE: $4k → 18%PUBLIC SAFETY PROFESSIONALS RETREAT: $1k → 18%BAGS4KIDS: $20k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.9M · 121 repeat orgs$7.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

121 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 105 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

121
269

Total granted

$9.9M
$3.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+25%

Still filing today

79%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.1M 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
EducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther

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

  • CS
    CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +18%
  • TB
    THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KERN COUNTY
    5× · 2017–2022 · $512k · revenue +147%
  • BS
    Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra Inc
    6× · 2017–2022 · $326k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO
    one grant, 2022 · $326k · revenue +4%
  • BS
    BAKERSFIELD SOUTHWEST BASEBALL INC
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue 0% · 42% of their budget
  • MV
    MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $218k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
California State University Foundation

Established in 1962, the foundation is the central foundation for the california state university (csu) system and serves the office of the chancellor. the foundation exists to support excellence in teaching and learning, and to serve the…

Philanthropy
2
Kern Medical Center Foundation

Kern medical center foundation is dedicated to promote education and programs that support the mission of kern medical center

Health
3
Central California Food Bank

Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…

Food & Nutrition
4
Foundation of California State University Monterey Bay

To further the scientific, literary, educational and charitable purposes of california state university, monterey bay, including fundraising, development, endowment management, financial assistance, public relations and other support.

Education
5
The California Endowment
Philanthropy
6
Cal State Fullerton Philanthropic Foundation

To actively promote, pursue and steward private support for the advancement of california state university, fullerton.

Philanthropy
7
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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8
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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9
The University Foundation At Sacramento State

Raise private resources to advance the mission and priorities of the university and serve as ambassadors in the community. provide stewardship in the prudent investment of resources and ensure the integrity of the foundation through…

Education
10
Credit Unions in the State of California Sierra Central Credit Union

As your financial institution, we pledge to serve you and our community faithfully. we will be friendly, helpful, and professional, and we will provide great products and competitive rates.

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11
Califonia State University East Bay Foundation Inc

Csu east bay foundation is an auxiliary organization of california state university east bay and the california state university system. the organization's mission is to provide services that aid, supplement, and advance the educational…

Education
12
Foundation for California Community Colleges

The foundation's mission is to benefit, support, and enhance the missions of the california community college system.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dolores C Huerta Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Rod Stiefvater Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFamily Philanthropic Founda…Affordable Housing Developm…University Foundation Suppo…Regional Business ChambersLow-Income Housing and Shel…Evangelical Christian Churc…Youth Sports & Recreation P…Community Health Care Provi…Labor Union LocalsAnimal Rescue and AdoptionChild & Family ServicesUnion Benefit Trust FundsEnvironmental Policy Advoca…School Parent-Teacher Assoc…Regional Land ConservationService Club Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%4%<5yr16%8%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr17%21%20–35yr11%21%35–55yr13%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%3%<5yr16%4%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr17%17%20–35yr11%17%35–55yr13%51%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%9/390
the rest of the field
15%
14,643/99,504

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

303 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. 303 of the 414 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.

16
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
87
Early backer (in before they grew)
282/303
Grantees still filing
222/303
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AERA ENERGY FUND — $2,918,446 · OtherAERA ENERGY FUND+107 more — $7,105,630 · Other+107 moreCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD FOUNDATION — $1,244,738 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UN…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $355,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH…UCLA FOUNDATION — $185,735 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $149,338 · EducationBAKERSFIELD COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $142,808 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION — $122,042 · EducationUniversity of California Merced Foundation — $118,230 · Education+21 more — $690,276 · Education+21 moreTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KERN COUNTY — $512,281 · Youth DevelopmentKERN COUNTY YOUTH FOR CHRIST — $273,000 · Youth DevelopmentSHEPOWER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY — $100,487 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $68,000 · Youth DevelopmentBakersfield Police Activities League — $38,000 · Youth Development+5 more — $119,000 · Youth DevelopmentBakersfield Symphony Orchestra Inc — $325,641 · Arts & CultureBakersfield Art Foundation Inc DBA Bakersfield Museum of Art — $229,039 · Arts & CultureKERN COUNTY MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $145,971 · Arts & CultureKern Dance Alliance — $86,000 · Arts & CultureBAKERSFIELD CIVIC LIGHT OPERA ASSOCIATION — $85,000 · Arts & CultureCITYSERVE INTERNATIONAL — $70,500 · Arts & CultureSHAFTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $49,858 · Arts & CultureValley Public Television Inc — $40,100 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $35,000 · Arts & CultureGarden Pathways Inc — $208,200 · Human ServicesTHE HENRIETTA WEILL MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC — $141,319 · Human ServicesHoffmann Hospice of The Valley — $123,450 · Human ServicesCalifornia Veterans Assistance — $69,650 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN — $61,782 · Human ServicesTRANSFORMATIONS BY AUSTIN ANGELS — $61,100 · Human ServicesWOUNDED HEROES FUND KERN COUNTY — $55,000 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities of the Diocese of Fresno — $46,000 · Human ServicesKERN PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES — $33,235 · Human Services+9 more — $171,526 · Human ServicesBAKERSFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $218,384 · Health911 AT EASE INTERNATIONAL INC — $191,370 · HealthShielding the Frontline Kern County Inc — $100,000 · HealthBakersfield Recovery Services — $48,428 · HealthSan Joaquin Community Hospital dba Adventist Health Bakersfield — $28,750 · HealthBAKERSFIELD CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER — $27,500 · Health+12 more — $194,743 · HealthROD STIEFVATER FOUNDATION — $124,560 · PhilanthropyTHE GRIMM FAMILY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $98,200 · PhilanthropyBATEY FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST — $78,500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY — $55,000 · PhilanthropyVENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 · PhilanthropyYOUTH 2 LEADERS EDUCATION FOUNDATIO — $43,977 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF VENTURA COUNTY INC — $30,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL EASTERN CALIFORNIA DBA UNITED WAY OF KERN COUNTY — $17,500 · Philanthropy
Other$10,024,076Education$3,008,667Youth Development$1,110,768Arts & Culture$1,067,109Human Services$971,262Health$809,175Philanthropy$498,237

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD FOUNDATION — $1,244,738 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KERN COUNTY — $512,281 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $355,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBakersfield Symphony Orchestra Inc — $325,641 over 6y, 10% of budgetTHE AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO — $325,600 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA TROUT INC — $296,073 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetKERN COUNTY YOUTH FOR CHRIST — $273,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetBAKERSFIELD SOUTHWEST BASEBALL INC — $250,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetSOUTHERN SIERRA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $249,546 over 7y, 20% of budgetBakersfield Art Foundation Inc DBA Bakersfield Museum of Art — $229,039 over 7y, 9.1% of budgetBAKERSFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $218,384 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetGarden Pathways Inc — $208,200 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetPLUMAS CORPORATION — $193,576 over 4y, 3.2% of budget911 AT EASE INTERNATIONAL INC — $191,370 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $185,735 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $149,338 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetKERN COUNTY MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $145,971 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetBAKERSFIELD COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $142,808 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetTHE HENRIETTA WEILL MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC — $141,319 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetBAKERSFIELD RESCUE MISSION DBA THE MISSION AT KERN COUNTY — $138,478 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetALL ABOUT CARE — $130,000 over 2y, 41% of budgetSANTA BARBARA POLICE FOUNDATION — $126,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetHoffmann Hospice of The Valley — $123,450 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HATCHERY — $123,400 over 2y, 82% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION — $122,042 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of California Merced Foundation — $118,230 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetFaith and Learning International NFP — $101,745 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSHEPOWER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY — $100,487 over 1y, 44% of budgetTHE WOMANS CLUB OF BAKERSFIELD — $100,000 over 1y, 64% of budgetShielding the Frontline Kern County Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetTHE GRIMM FAMILY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $98,200 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetKern Dance Alliance — $86,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetBAKERSFIELD CIVIC LIGHT OPERA ASSOCIATION — $85,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetBAKERSFIELD CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL — $83,173 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMERCY FOUNDATION BAKERSFIELD — $80,053 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetBATEY FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST — $78,500 over 1y, 20% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $77,335 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHAGGAI INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED LEADERSHIP TRAINING INC — $77,300 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTAFT COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $72,500 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetCITYSERVE INTERNATIONAL — $70,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCalifornia Veterans Assistance — $69,650 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $68,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN — $61,782 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRANSFORMATIONS BY AUSTIN ANGELS — $61,100 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetKern Literacy Council — $61,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetUnited Way of Fresno and Madera Counties — $56,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetWOUNDED HEROES FUND KERN COUNTY — $55,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budget
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 CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KERN COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA TROUT INC ↗
  • Who funds KERN COUNTY YOUTH FOR CHRIST ↗
  • Who funds BAKERSFIELD SOUTHWEST BASEBALL INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN SIERRA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds Bakersfield Art Foundation Inc DBA Bakersfield Museum of Art ↗
  • Who funds BAKERSFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Garden Pathways Inc ↗
  • Who funds PLUMAS CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds 911 AT EASE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KERN COUNTY MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BAKERSFIELD COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE HENRIETTA WEILL MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds BAKERSFIELD RESCUE MISSION DBA THE MISSION AT KERN COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds ALL ABOUT CARE ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ROD STIEFVATER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Hoffmann Hospice of The Valley ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HATCHERY ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION ↗

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.

The Virginia and Alfr…Resnick FoundationValley Strong Cu Fka …Diane S Lake Charitab…Bakersfield Memorial …Dignity HealthSeedcore FoundationWilliam & Florence Wh…Robert Grimm Family F…San Joaquin Community…The Cynthia Lake Char…Bakersfield West Rota…
The Virginia and Alfred Harrell FoundationCA103.3× affinity50 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Virginia and Alfred Harrell Foundation · Resnick Foundation · Valley Strong Cu Fka Kern Schools Federal Credit Union · Diane S Lake Charitable Trust Lake Diane S Ttee · Bakersfield Memorial Hospital · Dignity Health · Seedcore Foundation · William & Florence Wheeler Foundation · Robert Grimm Family Foundation · San Joaquin Community Hospital dba Adventist Health Bakersfield · The Cynthia Lake Charitable Trust · Bakersfield West Rotary-Stroope Family 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 Kern Community 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 414 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home