· Private foundation
The Bidart Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KHSD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $16,000 |
| TRANSFORMATIONS BY BAKERSFIELD ANGELS | $3,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KERN COUNTY | $3,500 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF BAKERSFIELD | $3,500 |
| KERN COUNTY 4-H CLUBS | $3,500 |
| VALLEY CENTER FOR THE BLIND | $3,500 |
| THE OPEN DOOR NETWORK | $3,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against -24% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TBTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KERN COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +147%
- ALASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF BAKERSFIELD9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +64%
- TOTHE OPEN DOOR NETWORK4× · 2022–2025 · $13k · revenue +632%
Funded once
- MAMASTERING ABILITIES RIDING EQUINESone grant, 2017 · $3k
- GSGirl Scouts of Central California South Incone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue -24%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
assist developmentally disabled individuals.
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…
Provide residential and outpatient treatment for drug and alcohol abuse.
Berkeley Community Scholars empowers Berkeley youth who face racial, economic, and other barriers to achieving their college dreams by providing a unique experience of scholarships, advising, mentoring, and a community of support.
To end homelessness in kern county through collaborative planning and action.
Provide support, networking, and education to the business community of bakersfield and kern county.
To serve individuals and families by providing them with the charitable and educational resources needed to overcome hardship and improve their lives, health and career.
The purpose of this corporation is to help people of all ages and walks of life build personal strengths needed to succeed in life, through operating challenging experiential learning courses and programs in school, urban and wilderness…
to raise general operating capital for bakersfield arc, inc., so that bakersfield arc, inc. can focus on improving the quality of life for adults with developmental disabilities.
Dedicated to assisting kern county residents who need financial assistance in obtaining treatment for cancer and associated diseases.
To unlock the potential of families and individuals. to develop employees that model integrity and healthy living. to build a legacy for all of our clients.
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KERN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF BAKERSFIELD ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR NETWORK ↗
- Who funds VALLEY CENTER FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds Transformations by Bakersfield Angels ↗
- Who funds BAKERSFIELD COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BETHANY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Central California South Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Virginia and Alfred Harrell Foundation · Kern Community Foundation · Resnick Foundation · CARE - Childrens Advocates Resource Endowment · Valley Strong Cu Fka Kern Schools Federal Credit Union · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bidart Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bidart Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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