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Robert Raskind Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$355k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$75k
Largest
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 FY20172025.

Human Services$472kFood & Nutrition$458kPhilanthropy$228kYouth Development$193kArts & Culture$192kAnimals$74kHealth$20k
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $264k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$34,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$257k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GOLDEN EMPIRE GLEANERS$75,000
BARC$38,300
OPEN DOOR NETWORK$34,000
THE MISSION OF KERN CO$34,000
BAKERSFIELD MUSEUM OF ART$34,000
Individual grant recipient$34,000
CASA ESPERANZA - BAKERSFIELD$34,000
BOYS GIRLS CLUBBAKERSFIELD$30,000
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE ASSOC$13,000
ALPHA CANINE SANCTUARY$13,000
KERN COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL$8,500
BAGS 4 KIDS$5,000
BAKERSFIELD ART ASSN$2,500
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 (FY21–25, $107k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 17%BAKERSFIELD ARC: $4k → 18%BAKERSFIELD ARC: $3k → 18%OPEN DOOR NETWORK: $40k → 18%OPEN DOOR NETWORK: $34k → 18%OPEN DOOR NETWORK: $16k → 18%BAGS 4 KIDS: $5k → 18%BAGS 4 KIDS: $5k → 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.

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 18 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
1

Total granted

$1.6M
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+260%

Still filing today

44%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesFood & NutritionAnimalsOther

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

  • GE
    GOLDEN EMPIRE GLEANERS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $458k · revenue +36%
  • BA
    Bakersfield Art Foundation Inc DBA Bakersfield Museum of Art
    9× · 2017–2025 · $126k · revenue +48%
  • TO
    THE OPEN DOOR NETWORK
    3× · 2023–2025 · $90k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • KR
    KERN RIVER VALLEY ART ASSOCIATgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +260%

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
Bakersfield Kern Regional Homeless Collaborative

To end homelessness in kern county through collaborative planning and action.

Human Services
2
Baker Community Arts Association
Arts & Culture
3
Kern County Library Foundation
Education
4
Bakersfield Recovery Services

Provide residential and outpatient treatment for drug and alcohol abuse.

Health
5
Fox Theater Foundation

The fox theater foundation is dedicated to restoring and operating the fox theater located in bakersfield, california.

Unclassified
6
Berkeley Art Center Association

Berkeley Art Center BAC works with artists and thinkers of all ages, backgrounds and experience levels to nurture their creative and professional potential. In collaboration with respected guest curators and a volunteer program committee,…

Arts & Culture
7
Kern Autism Network Inc

Kern Autism Network, Inc. provides support, awareness, information and education to families, professionals and the public throughout Kern County. We work towards cooperation, coordination and the creation of services between individuals…

Health
8
Epilepsy Society of Kern County
Health
9
Bakersfield City Ballet

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…

Arts & Culture
10
California Desert Arts Council Llc
Arts & Culture
11
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
12
Bakersfield Boxers & Bullies Rescue

To rescue stray dogs

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arts Council of Kern and the most unlike its peers is Bags4Kids LaJuana Moser. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 19 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BARC — $196,900 · OtherBARCIndividual grant recipient — $181,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBOYS GIRLS CLUBBAKERSFIELD — $138,000 · OtherBOYS GIRLS CLUBBAKERSFIELDCASA ESPERANZA - BAKERSFIELD — $74,000 · OtherCASA ESPERANZA - BAKERSFIELDTHE MISSION OF KERN CO — $74,000 · OtherTHE MISSION OF KERN COBOYS & GIRLS CLUBBAKERSFIELD — $55,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBBAKERSFIELDTHE MISSION OF KERN COUNTY — $36,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $28,000 · Other+2 more — $42,000 · OtherGOLDEN EMPIRE GLEANERS INC — $457,500 · Food & NutritionGOLDEN EMPIRE GLEANERS INCBakersfield Art Foundation Inc DBA Bakersfield Museum of Art — $126,000 · Arts & CultureBakersfield …THE ARTS COUNCIL OF KERN — $40,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ARTS COU…+2 more — $7,500 · Arts & CultureTHE OPEN DOOR NETWORK — $90,000 · Human ServicesBags4Kids LaJuana Moser — $10,000 · Human ServicesBakersfield Arc Inc — $7,000 · Human ServicesALPHA CANINE SANCTUARY — $74,000 · Animals
Other$824,900Food & Nutrition$457,500Arts & Culture$173,500Human Services$107,000Animals$74,000

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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGOLDEN EMPIRE GLEANERS INC — $457,500 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetBakersfield Art Foundation Inc DBA Bakersfield Museum of Art — $126,000 over 9y, 3.6% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR NETWORK — $90,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetALPHA CANINE SANCTUARY — $74,000 over 9y, 31% of budgetTHE ARTS COUNCIL OF KERN — $40,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetBags4Kids LaJuana Moser — $10,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetBakersfield Arc Inc — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBakersfield Art Association — $5,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetKERN RIVER VALLEY ART ASSOCIAT — $2,500 over 1y, 4.2% 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 GOLDEN EMPIRE GLEANERS INC
  • Who funds Bakersfield Art Foundation Inc DBA Bakersfield Museum of Art
  • Who funds THE OPEN DOOR NETWORK
  • Who funds ALPHA CANINE SANCTUARY
  • Who funds THE ARTS COUNCIL OF KERN
  • Who funds Bags4Kids LaJuana Moser
  • Who funds Bakersfield Arc Inc
  • Who funds Bakersfield Art Association
  • Who funds KERN RIVER VALLEY ART ASSOCIAT

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.

Kern Community FoundationCA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kern Community Foundation · The Virginia and Alfred Harrell Foundation · 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 Robert Raskind Charitable 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 19 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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