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Robert Raskind Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$355k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
46%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$34,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$75,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 13
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$257k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 46% of the organizations Robert Raskind Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving13$355k0%
FY202413$502k46%
FY20239$130k22%
FY20229$125k0%
FY202110$183k20%
FY20208$108k13%
FY20198$98k13%
FY20187$76k0%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Golden Empire Gleaners Inc$457,50093%
Bakersfield Art Foundation Inc DBA Bakersfield Museum of Art$126,00094%
The Open Door Network$90,00030%
Alpha Canine Sanctuary$74,000931%
The Arts Council of Kern$40,00054%
Shar-On Corporation$23,5005n/a
Bags4Kids LaJuana Moser$10,00028%
Bakersfield Arc Inc$7,00020%
Bakersfield Art Association$5,00025%
Kern River Valley Art Associat$2,50014%

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($801k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Robert Raskind Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

Kern Community Founda…The Virginia and Alfr…Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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.

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About Robert Raskind Charitable Foundation

How much does Robert Raskind Charitable Foundation give?
Robert Raskind Charitable Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $355,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Robert Raskind Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Food & Nutrition (28%), Philanthropy (14%).
Who are Robert Raskind Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Golden Empire Gleaners Inc ($458k), Bakersfield Art Foundation Inc DBA Bakersfield Museum of Art ($126k), The Open Door Network ($90k).
Does Robert Raskind Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Robert Raskind Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Robert Raskind Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kern Community Foundation, The Virginia and Alfred Harrell Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Robert Raskind Charitable Foundation based?
Robert Raskind Charitable Foundation is based in CA.

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

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