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· Public charity

Kern Dance Alliance

to promote/expand understanding and appreciation of dance through education and performance outreach.

$3.4M
Granted FY2023
14
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$255k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01FY2023 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $2,664,449, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,383,212 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $718,763 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $69k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $555k
  • $250k+8 grants · $2.0M
$255,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$94k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Dolores Huerta Foundation$255,000
Childrens Musical Theaterwor$255,000
Community Media Access Collab$255,000
Fresno Arts Council Inc$255,000
Modesto Sound$255,000
Garden Pathways Inc$255,000
Dance Camera West$255,000
Outsiders Entrepreneurs 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
02The need
02

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Garden Pathways Inc: $255k → 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 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
San Bernardino Valley Concert Association
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2
California Desert Arts Council Llc
Arts & Culture
3
Artworks Community Arts Education C
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4
Baker Community Arts Association
Arts & Culture
5
Northern California Center for the Arts

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Central California Art League Inc Dba Stanislaus Arts Council

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 & Culture
7
Occidental Center for the Arts

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Cal Center Presents

Arts presenter serving the greater Reedsburg area.

Arts & Culture
9
The California Theatre of Santa Rosa

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Amador County Arts Council

To develop, elevate, and celebrate the arts and cultural community by providing resources, opportunities, and professional development

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11
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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12
Fillmore Community Art Center
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arts Council of Kern; 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.
03the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Fresno Arts Council Inc: $255,000 · Arts & CultureFresno Arts Council IncCOMMUNITY MEDIA ACCESS COLLABORATIVE: $255,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY MEDIA ACCESS COLLABORATIVEDance Camera West: $255,000 · Arts & CultureDance Camera WestChildrens Musical Theatreworks Inc: $255,000 · Arts & CultureChildrens Musical Theatreworks IncKERN RIVER VALLEY ART ASSOCIAT: $196,350 · Arts & CultureKERN RIVER VALLEY ART ASSOCIATTHE ARTS COUNCIL OF KERN: $168,300 · Arts & CultureTHE ARTS COUNCIL OF KERN+1 more: $36,763 · Arts & CultureMODESTO SOUND: $255,000 · Youth DevelopmentMODESTO SOUNDOutsiders Nation Inc: $255,000 · Youth DevelopmentOutsiders Nation IncTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KERN COUNTY: $95,519 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF K…CAMP TAYLOR INC: $95,081 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP TAYLOR INCDOLORES C HUERTA FOUNDATION: $255,000 · Community ImprovementDOLORES C HU…EASTERN SIERRA ARTISTS: $32,436 · Community ImprovementEASTERN SIER…Garden Pathways Inc: $255,000 · Human ServicesGarden Pat…
Arts & Culture$1,421,413Youth Development$700,600Community Improvement$287,436Human Services$255,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMODESTO SOUND: $255,000 over 1y, 92% of budgetFresno Arts Council Inc: $255,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetOutsiders Nation Inc: $255,000 over 1y, 94% of budgetCOMMUNITY MEDIA ACCESS COLLABORATIVE: $255,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetDance Camera West: $255,000 over 1y, 64% of budgetChildrens Musical Theatreworks Inc: $255,000 over 1y, 82% of budgetGarden Pathways Inc: $255,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetDOLORES C HUERTA FOUNDATION: $255,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE ARTS COUNCIL OF KERN: $168,300 over 1y, 27% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KERN COUNTY: $95,519 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCAMP TAYLOR INC: $95,081 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetBakersfield Symphony Orchestra Inc: $36,763 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetEASTERN SIERRA ARTISTS: $32,436 over 1y, 16% 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.

The California Endowm…Kern Community Founda…The Virginia and Alfr…Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
The California EndowmentCA17× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Kern Dance Alliance funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kern Dance Alliance. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 Kern Dance Alliance?

    Find your warmest path to Kern Dance Alliance 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 14 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 2023, released 2023. 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 $1k 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 FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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