· Private foundation
Louis and Sheryl Barbich Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KERN COUNTY MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $5,555 |
| GARDEN PATHWAYS | $1,250 |
| KERN HIGH SCHOOL DIST FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +63% since the first grant, against -27% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CSCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +18%
- KCKERN COUNTY MUSEUM FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +12%
- TUTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2024 · $18k · revenue +148%
Funded once
- AAALLIANCE AGAINST FAMILY VIOLENCEone grant, 2020 · $3k
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBone grant, 2020 · $2k
- BCBAKERSFIELD COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
Dedicated to assisting kern county residents who need financial assistance in obtaining treatment for cancer and associated diseases.
Kern medical center foundation is dedicated to promote education and programs that support the mission of kern medical center
The mission of the united way of kern county is to "mobilize donors, advocates and volunteers to improve lives in kern county." the organization accomplishes this by raising and investing financial resources in programs that advance the…
Kern real estate foundation functions exclusively to benefit and support the kern community 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…
Support of local law enforcement
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
The objective of the foundation is to gather, raise, and collect donations for the benefit of education programs of the Kern High School District.
Attracting new business & industry to all cities & communities in kern county. retain existing industry & compile data to attract new industry.
Serving the educational, financial, and emotional needs of kern county cancer patients and their families. providing assistance to individuals with financial hardship to relieve medical debt.
To support the scientific and educational purposes of the regents of the university of california (the "university"), in its specific capacity as manager and operator of the lawrence berkeley national laboratory and to carry on other…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kern County Museum Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Casa De Kids Ii. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 23 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 CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KERN COUNTY MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bakersfield Art Foundation Inc DBA Bakersfield Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds BETHANY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Garden Pathways Inc ↗
- Who funds KERN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARTS COUNCIL OF KERN ↗
- Who funds CASA DE KIDS II ↗
- Who funds Kern Literacy Council ↗
- Who funds BAKERSFIELD COLLEGE 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.
Open a dossier: Kern Community Foundation · The Virginia and Alfred Harrell Foundation · Diane S Lake Charitable Trust Lake Diane S Ttee · The California Endowment · Batey Family Charitable Trust · The Skeet Varner Foundation · Valley Strong Cu Fka Kern Schools Federal Credit Union · Lazzerini Family Foundation · San Joaquin Community Hospital dba Adventist Health Bakersfield · Ravi and Naina Patel Foundation · California Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Louis and Sheryl Barbich 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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