· Public charity
Kern Dance Alliance
to promote/expand understanding and appreciation of dance through education and performance outreach.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $2,664,449 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,383,212 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $718,763 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k2 grants · $69k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $555k
- $250k+8 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Dance Camera West | $255,000 |
| Outsiders Entrepreneurs Inc | $255,000 |
| Community Media Access Collab | $255,000 |
| Fresno Arts Council Inc | $255,000 |
| Modesto Sound | $255,000 |
| Childrens Musical Theaterwor | $255,000 |
| Dolores Huerta Foundation | $255,000 |
| Garden Pathways Inc | $255,000 |
| Kern River Valley Art Associa | $196,350 |
| Arts Council of Kern | $168,300 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Kern Co | $95,519 |
| Camp Taylor Inc | $95,081 |
| Bakersfield Symphony Orchestr | $36,763 |
| Eastern Sierra Artists | $32,436 |
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 (FY23–23, $255k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
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.
The Center for the Arts is a cultural and educational organization that promotes and presents the literary, visual and performing arts for the enrichment of the community.
The Stanislaus Arts Council supports, promotes, and advocates for artists, and creative endeavors of all forms that provide essential cultural opportunities for our community in Stanislaus County
Arts presenter serving the greater Reedsburg area.
Occidental Center for the Arts exists to provide a welcoming and accessible venue for the performing and visual arts in Sonoma County California for local regional national and international artists. our mission is to enrich our community…
The Bakersfield Regional Ballet strives to support the dreams and development of dancers throughout the central valley and the state of California. We are committed to providing exceptional dance performances, outreach for the local…
To develop, elevate, and celebrate the arts and cultural community by providing resources, opportunities, and professional development
To champion the performing arts in Santa Rosa for all. To connect people with one another and with art that can enrich their lives. To embrace people from all backgrounds. To provide exceptional service to our resident companies and to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arts Council of Kern and the most unlike its peers is Dance Camera West. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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.
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 COMMUNITY MEDIA ACCESS COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds Garden Pathways Inc ↗
- Who funds MODESTO SOUND ↗
- Who funds Fresno Arts Council Inc ↗
- Who funds Dance Camera West ↗
- Who funds DOLORES C HUERTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Childrens Musical Theatreworks Inc ↗
- Who funds Outsiders Nation Inc ↗
- Who funds KERN RIVER VALLEY ART ASSOCIAT ↗
- Who funds THE ARTS COUNCIL OF KERN ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KERN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CAMP TAYLOR INC ↗
- Who funds Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds EASTERN SIERRA ARTISTS ↗
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: The California Endowment · Kern Community Foundation · The Virginia and Alfred Harrell Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Dance Alliance 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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