· Private foundation
Robert Grimm Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $212k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SLEEPY BABY BOX FOUNDATION | $61,840 |
| BAKERSFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $50,300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $45,000 |
| ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH | $30,000 |
| STARS | $25,000 |
| BAKERSFIELD MASTER CHORALE | $20,000 |
| HOFFMAN HOSPICE | $10,000 |
| MARE | $10,000 |
| KERN DANCE ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| BAKERSFIELD CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL | $9,643 |
| GARCES ALUMNI FUND | $5,000 |
| OASIS | $5,000 |
| VV FAMILY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $455k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
42 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- CPCAL POLY CORPORATION3× · 2020–2022 · $2.5M · revenue +81%
- BMBAKERSFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +71% · 32% of their budget
- CUCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY IRVINE2× · 2017–2018 · $542k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- CSCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELDone grant, 2022 · $750k
- TGTHE GRIMM FAMILY EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $365k · revenue +20% · 27% of their budget
- VPVALKERIE PYLON FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $150k
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.
Kern medical center foundation is dedicated to promote education and programs that support the mission of kern medical center
Dedicated to assisting kern county residents who need financial assistance in obtaining treatment for cancer and associated diseases.
Support of local law enforcement
The objective of the foundation is to gather, raise, and collect donations for the benefit of education programs of the Kern High School District.
The mission of st. francis foundation of santa barbara is to promote and support health care.
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…
The Central Valley Health Foundation (CVHF) is a California not-for-profit corporation. The Foundation was organized to coordinate the solicitation of contributions through its operations and to disburse such contributions, earnings, and…
The Foundation's mission is to endeavor to support programs and projects that measurably improve the physical and emotional health and health, wholeness and hope is coupled with a vision to transform the well-being in Paradise, and the…
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.
Provide residential and outpatient treatment for drug and alcohol abuse.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bakersfield Christian High School and the most unlike its peers is Sleepy Baby Box Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
35 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. 35 of the 71 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 CAL POLY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAKERSFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY IRVINE ↗
- Who funds SLEEPY BABY BOX FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA SERVICE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE GRIMM FAMILY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STARS ↗
- Who funds Country Christian School Inc ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds PASTORAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BAKERSFIELD CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF KERN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds VV Family Foundation ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties ↗
- Who funds Bakersfield Master Chorale Inc ↗
- Who funds Kern Dance Alliance ↗
- Who funds San Luis Obispo Christian School Inc ↗
- Who funds Hoffmann Hospice of The Valley ↗
- Who funds BAKERSFIELD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S MEDICAL CENTER 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 · Diane S Lake Charitable Trust Lake Diane S Ttee · William & Florence Wheeler Foundation · San Joaquin Community Hospital dba Adventist Health Bakersfield · Seedcore Foundation · The Virginia and Alfred Harrell Foundation · Lazzerini Family Foundation · Amicus Foundation · Valley Strong Cu Fka Kern Schools Federal Credit Union · Dignity Health · Sempra Foundation · The Harvey L Hall Charitable Family Foundation Inc
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 Robert Grimm Family 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.