· Private foundation
Semloh Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $323k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $399k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEST SIDE REC AND PARK DISTRICT | $120,000 |
| GREATER HORIZONS | $98,850 |
| HRS TRUE HOPE | $70,000 |
| BAKERSFIELD PREGNANCY CENTER | $60,000 |
| YOUNG AMERICA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| YOUTH FOR CHRIST OF KERN COUNTY | $46,150 |
| ACRES | $45,000 |
| MARE RIDING CENTER | $40,000 |
| KEEPERS OF THE CROSS CHURCH | $37,000 |
| CRISIS PREGANCY CENTER | $30,000 |
| AMERICA'S MIGHTY WARRIORS | $20,000 |
| WEST SIDE REC AND PARK DISTRICT | $20,000 |
| WESTERN KERN OIL MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| HELPS INTERNATIONAL | $20,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $15,000 |
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, $176k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +19% since the first grant, against -33% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 8 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $184k 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
- ALALICE LLOYD COLLEGE3× · 2020–2022 · $2.7M · revenue +78%
- KCKERN COUNTY YOUTH FOR CHRIST8× · 2017–2024 · $648k · revenue +52%
- HTHRS TRUE HOPE INC6× · 2018–2024 · $456k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- WKWEST KERN OIL MUSEUM INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +362%
- IGInternational Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of Americaone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -33%
- BRBAKERSFIELD RESCUE MISSION DBA THE MISSION AT KERN COUNTYone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -34%
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.
To stop domestic violence and sexual assault in kern county and assist survivors in reclaiming their lives.
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…
Dedicated to assisting kern county residents who need financial assistance in obtaining treatment for cancer and associated diseases.
The rescue mission provides services to the homeless population in madera county in california. it provides housing for men, women, and families on an emergency short-term basis. it also operates a rehabilitation program for men and women.
To meet the physical, relational and spiritual needs of the homeless, sober living home residents, motel dwellers and those entrenched in generational poverty within kern county
i58 Global is a Christian ministry dedicated to recruiting, sending and organizing relief workers to provide aid and share hope to refugees in various European countries.
Union rescue mission embraces people with the compassion of christ. we assist people experiencing homelessness by providing a comprehensive array of emergency and long-term services to our guests, including: food, shelter, clothing,…
To transform lives through the treatment of addiction.
To end homelessness in kern county through collaborative planning and action.
Our mission is to connect people to quality giving and volunteer opportunities worldwide. universalgiving is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, whose vision is to create a world where giving and volunteering are a natural part of everyday…
The mission of Independent Living Center of Kern County is to empower people with disabilities to grow creatively, professionally, and personally; and to educate the community about disability related issues. The vision of Independent…
Border Kindness provides vulnerable populations with comprehensive services that include food, shelter, clothing, medical care, and legal services. Our programs and interventions are designed to identify, protect and nurture the most…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canine Companions for Independence Inc and the most unlike its peers is West Kern Oil Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
22 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. 22 of the 36 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 ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Greater Horizons ↗
- Who funds KERN COUNTY YOUTH FOR CHRIST ↗
- Who funds HRS TRUE HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF KERN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BAKERSFIELD CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds BETHANY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MARE Riding Center ↗
- Who funds HELPS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Alpha House A Place for New Beginnings ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S MIGHTY WARRIORS ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds WEST KERN OIL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds International Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED HEROES FUND KERN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BAKERSFIELD RESCUE MISSION DBA THE MISSION AT KERN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds HIGHER IMPACT ↗
- Who funds Project Sweet Peas ↗
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 · Greater Horizons · Amicus Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Dignity Health · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good
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 Semloh 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.