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San Joaquin Community Hospital dba Adventist Health Bakersfield

Living Gods love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope.

$147k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$2.1MHealth$690kEducation$317kArts & Culture$131kYouth Development$124kHuman Services$118kCivil Rights$54kPublic Benefit$21kCommunity Improvement$11kOther$290k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 5 grants below total $135,036 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $146,536 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $11,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$721M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CA Hlth Fund & Trust$80,036
Kern County Cancer Fund$25,000
Bakersfield Women Bus Conf$15,000
Kern County Law Enforcement$7,500
Garden Pathways Inc$7,500
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 (FY17–24, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%wounded heroes fund: $13k → 18%Comm of Excellence 2026 Inc: $25k → 15%Bakersfield Kern Regional Hom: $20k → 18%Alliance Against Family Viole: $8k → 18%Alliance Against Family Viole: $8k → 18%Bakersfield Kern Regional Hom: $10k → 18%Bakersfield Kern Regional Hom: $8k → 18%Garden Pathways Inc: $8k → 18%Garden Pathways Inc: $8k → 18%Garden Pathways Inc: $6k → 18%Garden pathways inc: $6k → 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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.3M · 24 repeat orgs$463k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
24

Total granted

$3.3M
$456k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+36%

Still filing today

96%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    6× · 2017–2022 · $300k · revenue +33%
  • JL
    JJs Legacy
    6× · 2017–2023 · $167k · revenue +71%
  • TG
    THE GRIMM FAMILY EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2022 · $119k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • TE
    The Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institutegraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $90k · revenue +134%
  • CB
    CSU BAKERSFIELD AUXILIARY FOR SPONSORED PROGRAMS ADMINISTRATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $55k · revenue +74%
  • CC
    CENTRAL CALIFORNIA CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS
    one grant, 2019 · $33k

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
Kern County Library Foundation
Education
2
Kern Medical Center Foundation

Kern medical center foundation is dedicated to promote education and programs that support the mission of kern medical center

Health
3
Epilepsy Society of Kern County
Health
4
Kern County Network for Children

Assure community services to children

Human Services
5
Kern County Fire Department Retired Employees Asso

Support of local retired firefighters

Recreation & Sports
6
Kern Literacy Council

To empower individuals to improve their quality of life through literacy education.

Education
7
Friends of the Kern County Fair

The primary purpose of Friends of the Kern County fair is to raise money for the benefit of the 15th district agricultural association and showcasing agricultural industries to the community.

Recreation & Sports
8
Kern Partnership for Children & Families

The purpose of this Corporation shall be to provide support to the Kern County Department of Human Services to provide for non-funded approved activities or projects that serve in meeting the Department's vision to assure that every…

Human Services
9
Volunteer Center of Kern County Inc

Provide the community with volunteer services

Philanthropy
10
Kern High School District Educational Foundation

The objective of the foundation is to gather, raise, and collect donations for the benefit of education programs of the Kern High School District.

Education
11
Kern Fire Safe Council

The mission of The Kern Fire Safe Council through education, collaboration, and action is to safeguard the people of our communities and their property from the effects of catastrophic wildfire.

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Kern River Foundation
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kern County Museum Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Edible Schoolyard Project dba the Alice Waters Institute. 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 34 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%0%<5yr13%10%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr15%28%20–35yr10%18%35–55yr15%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%0%<5yr13%5%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr15%12%20–35yr10%2%35–55yr15%73%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/51
the rest of the field
17%
425/2,556

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.

04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 51 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
Grantees still filing
28/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CALIFORNIA HEALTH FOUNDATION AND TRUST — $1,911,975 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA HEALTH FOUNDATION AND TRUSTTHE GRIMM FAMILY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $118,537 · PhilanthropyTHE GRIMM FAMILY EDUCATION FOUNDATION+2 more — $80,000 · PhilanthropyAmerican Heart Association Inc — $300,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Assoc…JJs Legacy — $167,000 · HealthJJs LegacyLINKS FOR LIFE — $76,135 · HealthLINKS FOR LIFECBCC FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY WELLNESS INC — $32,500 · HealthKERN COUNTY CANCER FOUNDATION — $30,100 · Health+7 more — $84,450 · Health+7 moreThe Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute — $90,000 · EducationThe Edibl…Bakersfield Womens Business Conference — $68,960 · EducationBakersfie…CSU BAKERSFIELD AUXILIARY FOR SPONSORED PROGRAMS ADMINISTRATION — $55,000 · EducationCSU BAKER…CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EducationCALIFORNI…Kern County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Business Education Foundation — $33,360 · EducationKern Coun…BAKERSFIELD CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL — $12,500 · Education+1 more — $7,500 · EducationGREATER BAKERSFIELD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $82,470 · OtherGREATER BAK…KERN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $62,900 · OtherKERN ECONOM…CENTRAL CALIFORNIA CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS — $32,500 · OtherCENTRAL CAL…LUTHERAN CHURCH MISSOURI SYNOD — $30,000 · OtherLUTHERAN CH…BETHANY SERVICES INC — $25,000 · OtherBETHANY SER…Kern County Farm Bureau — $15,000 · OtherCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF KERN COUNTY — $53,500 · OtherCOURT APPOI…Kern County Taxpayers Education Fund Inc — $21,000 · OtherKern County…+7 more — $53,451 · Other+7 moreBakersfield Symphony Orchestra Inc — $60,000 · Arts & CultureBAKERSFIELD FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Arts & CultureKERN COUNTY MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ARTS COUNCIL OF KERN — $16,000 · Arts & CultureCITYSERVE NETWORK — $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentCondors Community Foundation — $21,000 · Youth DevelopmentChristian Youth Film Society Inc — $17,750 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KERN COUNTY — $5,700 · Youth DevelopmentBAKERSFIELD KERN REGIONAL HOMELESS COLLABORATIVE — $38,000 · Human ServicesGarden Pathways Inc — $27,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITIES OF EXCELLENCE 2026 INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE OPEN DOOR NETWORK — $15,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED HEROES FUND KERN COUNTY — $12,500 · Human Services
Philanthropy$2,110,512Health$690,185Education$317,320Other$375,821Arts & Culture$131,000Youth Development$124,450Human Services$118,000

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$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCALIFORNIA HEALTH FOUNDATION AND TRUST — $1,911,975 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $300,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJJs Legacy — $167,000 over 6y, 20% of budgetTHE GRIMM FAMILY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $118,537 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetThe Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute — $90,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetGREATER BAKERSFIELD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $82,470 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetCITYSERVE NETWORK — $80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLINKS FOR LIFE — $76,135 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetBakersfield Womens Business Conference — $68,960 over 4y, 41% of budgetKERN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $62,900 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetBakersfield Symphony Orchestra Inc — $60,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetCSU BAKERSFIELD AUXILIARY FOR SPONSORED PROGRAMS ADMINISTRATION — $55,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF KERN COUNTY — $53,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetKERN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBAKERSFIELD KERN REGIONAL HOMELESS COLLABORATIVE — $38,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetKern County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Business Education Foundation — $33,360 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetCBCC FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY WELLNESS INC — $32,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL EASTERN CALIFORNIA DBA UNITED WAY OF KERN COUNTY — $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGarden Pathways Inc — $27,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBETHANY SERVICES INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES OF EXCELLENCE 2026 INC — $25,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetKERN COUNTY MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetKern County Taxpayers Education Fund Inc — $21,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetCondors Community Foundation — $21,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Youth Film Society Inc — $17,750 over 2y, 12% of budgetTHE ARTS COUNCIL OF KERN — $16,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetKern County Farm Bureau — $15,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR NETWORK — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWOUNDED HEROES FUND KERN COUNTY — $12,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBAKERSFIELD CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL — $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA NURSE LEADERS — $11,400 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKERN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC — $11,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetVALLEY CENTER FOR THE BLIND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMENDIBURU MAGIC FOUNDATION AGAINST CANCER — $10,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetKern County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce — $9,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBAKERSFIELD COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKern County Law Enforcement Foundation — $7,500 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KERN COUNTY — $5,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVV Family Foundation — $5,550 over 1y, 6.9% 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.

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 Founda…Bakersfield Memorial …Dignity HealthThe Virginia and Alfr…Robert Grimm Family F…For All the Children …Diane S Lake Charitab…Valley Strong Cu Fka …The California Endowm…Lazzerini Family Foun…Louis and Sheryl Barb…Batey Family Charitab…
Kern Community FoundationCA40.4× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kern Community Foundation · Bakersfield Memorial Hospital · Dignity Health · The Virginia and Alfred Harrell Foundation · Robert Grimm Family Foundation · For All the Children Foundation · Diane S Lake Charitable Trust Lake Diane S Ttee · Valley Strong Cu Fka Kern Schools Federal Credit Union · The California Endowment · Lazzerini Family Foundation · Louis and Sheryl Barbich Foundation · Batey Family Charitable Trust

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 San Joaquin Community Hospital dba Adventist Health Bakersfield 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%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
    12report 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, FY20–25

    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 51 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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