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The Cynthia Lake Charitable Trust

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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$700k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$2.8MEducation$1.8MArts & Culture$1.2MHealth$599kCrime & Legal$497kHuman Services$269kInternational$250kRecreation & Sports$164kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $231k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $390k
  • $250k+1 grant · $700k
$26,615
Median grant
4
States reached
$49M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARTY STUARTS CONGRESS OF COUNTRY MUSIC$700,000
NASHVILLE STEAM PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC$200,000
LINKS FOR LIFE$75,000
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF BAKERSFIELD$65,000
NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART$50,000
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER$45,000
ILLUMINATIONS CENTER FOR DYSLEXIA$34,000
ADAKC$30,000
DAVID J DRAKULICH ART FOUNDATION$27,700
NOTE-ABLE MUSICAL THERAPY$27,000
MARE THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER$26,615
GREATER BAKERSFIELD LEGAL ASSISTANCE$21,583
KERN ATHLETIC FENCING FOUNDATION$19,250
CROSSROADS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP$8,500
BAKERSFIELD ANGELS$5,000
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 (FY20–24, $195k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COVENANT COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 18%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF BAKERSFIELD: $65k → 18%BAKERSFIELD ANGELS: $15k → 18%BAKERSFIELD ANGELS: $10k → 18%BAKERSFIELD ANGELS: $10k → 18%BAKERSFIELD ANGELS: $5k → 18%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER: $45k → 10%NORTHERN NEVADA RAVE FAMILY FOUNDATION: $30k → 10%PROJECT 150: $5k → 10%GARDEN PATHWAYS: $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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
WI
MI
NY
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CA
KY
MD
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TN
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GA
TX
FL

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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.9M · 30 repeat orgs$4.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +56% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
40

Total granted

$3.9M
$3.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+56%

Still filing today

73%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $426k 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyYouth 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

  • AL
    ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE
    4× · 2018–2023 · $1.6M · revenue +105%
  • CA
    COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF KERN COUNTY
    7× · 2017–2023 · $435k · revenue +37%
  • AI
    Awaken INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $128k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • SS
    STEVEN SAMPSON CHARITABLE FUND INC CO GOOSSEN & SCHULTZ CPAS LLPgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1.2M · revenue +861%
  • CL
    CYNTHIA LAKE CHARITABLE FUND WHITTIER 00 5225
    one grant, 2023 · $905k
  • CL
    CYNTHIA LAKE CHAIRTABLE FUND WHITTIER 76 5225
    one grant, 2020 · $450k

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 County Cancer Foundation

Dedicated to assisting kern county residents who need financial assistance in obtaining treatment for cancer and associated diseases.

Health
3
Shielding the Frontline Kern County Inc

Committed to serving our Kern County frontline emergency responders by facilitating free, confidential counseling services specializing in trauma, behavioral health, and family support.

Health
4
Epilepsy Society of Kern County
Health
5
Kern County Law Enforcement Foundation

Support of local law enforcement

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6
Wounded Heroes Fund Kern County

The organization provides financial assistance and moral support to active, discharged and retired military service men and women, with emphasis on those injured in the iraq and afganistan conflicts.

Human Services
7
Kern County Wwii Veterans Memorial

To create a permanent tribute honoring all kern county wwii veterans and those who supported them. to serve our community with a beautiful memorial that will be a permanent place of reverence and tribute, and will also provide historical…

Arts & Culture
8
Kern County Fire Department Retired Employees Asso

Support of local retired firefighters

Recreation & Sports
9
Kern County Network for Children

Assure community services to children

Human Services
10
Independent Living Center of Kern County

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…

Human Services
11
Kern Community Foundation

Kern community foundation's mission is growing community and growing philanthropy.

Philanthropy
12
Bakersfield Recovery Services

Provide residential and outpatient treatment for drug and alcohol abuse.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Assistance League of Bakersfield and the most unlike its peers is Chelsea Mcclintock Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Legal Aid & Immigration Ser…Veteran Support ServicesChild and Family ServicesCancer Support OrganizationsAnimal Rescue and AdoptionElementary Literacy TutoringDevelopmental Disabilities …Senior Support ServicesClassical Music EnsemblesProfessional Ballet Compani…Community Arts OrganizationsUrban Agriculture & Food Ac…Community Health CentersChristian Missionary Organi…Domestic Violence Crisis Se…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%30%10–20yr16%36%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%42%20–35yr13%7%35–55yr16%39%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/53
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,512

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

50 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. 50 of the 79 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/50
Grantees still filing
41/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CYNTHIA LAKE CHARITABLE FUND WHITTIER 00 5225 — $904,617 · OtherCYNTHIA LAKE CHARITABLE FUND WHITTIER 00 5225MARTY STUARTS CONGRESS OF COUNTRY MUSIC — $706,835 · OtherMARTY STUARTS CONGRESS OF COUNTRY MUSICCYNTHIA LAKE CHAIRTABLE FUND WHITTIER 76 5225 — $450,000 · OtherCYNTHIA LAKE CHAIRTABLE FUND WHITTIER 76 5225MARE THERAPEUTIC RIDIING CENTER — $152,000 · OtherAwaken INC — $128,200 · Other+45 more — $1,277,396 · Other+45 moreALICE LLOYD COLLEGE — $1,610,000 · EducationALICE LLOYD COLLEGEILLUMINATIONS CENTER FOR DYSLEXIA — $87,500 · Education+4 more — $30,700 · EducationSTEVEN SAMPSON CHARITABLE FUND INC CO GOOSSEN & SCHULTZ CPAS LLP — $1,235,000 · PhilanthropySTEVEN SAMPSON CH…+3 more — $31,087 · PhilanthropyCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF KERN COUNTY — $435,000 · Civil RightsNASHVILLE STEAM PRESERVATION SOCIETY — $200,000 · Arts & CultureNevada Museum of Art — $56,000 · Arts & CultureDAVID J DRAKULICH ART FOUNDATION — $45,400 · Arts & CultureNOTE-ABLE MUSIC THERAPY SERVICES — $27,800 · Arts & CultureHONOR FLIGHT KERN COUNTY — $17,000 · Arts & CultureKern Dance Alliance — $14,025 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $24,100 · Arts & CultureSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $250,000 · ReligionThe Great Passion Play — $42,000 · ReligionLINKS FOR LIFE — $92,000 · HealthFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION — $76,000 · HealthKern Medical Center Foundation — $61,680 · HealthBAKERSFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $50,000 · Health+3 more — $7,800 · Health
Other$3,619,048Education$1,728,200Philanthropy$1,266,087Civil Rights$435,000Arts & Culture$384,325Religion$292,000Health$287,480

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 budgetALICE LLOYD COLLEGE — $1,610,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF KERN COUNTY — $435,000 over 7y, 8.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE STEAM PRESERVATION SOCIETY — $200,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetAwaken INC — $128,200 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetKERN COUNTY YOUTH FOR CHRIST — $99,100 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetLINKS FOR LIFE — $92,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetILLUMINATIONS CENTER FOR DYSLEXIA — $87,500 over 3y, 15% of budgetFOX THEATER FOUNDATION — $77,692 over 2y, 14% of budgetFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION — $76,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF BAKERSFIELD — $65,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetVeterans Guest House Inc — $62,950 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetKern Medical Center Foundation — $61,680 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGreater Bakersfield Legal Assistance Inc — $61,583 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNevada Museum of Art — $56,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetBAKERSFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAVID J DRAKULICH ART FOUNDATION — $45,400 over 2y, 33% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER — $45,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe Great Passion Play — $42,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTRANSFORMATIONS BY AUSTIN ANGELS — $40,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetAUSTIN YOUTH & COMMUNITY FARM INC DBA URBAN ROOTS — $30,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetFAMILY RESPITE CARE OF NEVADA — $30,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetCHELSEA MCCLINTOCK FOUNDATION — $29,687 over 4y, 88% of budgetTHE LEAGUE OF DREAMS INC — $29,650 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $28,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNOTE-ABLE MUSIC THERAPY SERVICES — $27,800 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKern Athletic Fencing Foundation Inc — $19,250 over 1y, 12% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT KERN COUNTY — $17,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetKern Dance Alliance — $14,025 over 4y, 9.6% of budgetLIFESAVERS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT NEVADA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetKern County Basque Club — $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetBALBOA ISLAND MUSEUM — $9,100 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetGarden Pathways Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT 150 — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCBCC FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY WELLNESS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetKern Literacy Council — $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCOVENANT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA 9-11 MEMORIAL — $5,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetVALLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBAKERSFIELD FIREFIGHTERS HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBAKERSFIELD CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVolunteer Center of Kern County Inc — $400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJJs Legacy — $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRenown Health Foundation — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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…The Virginia and Alfr…Dignity HealthGreater HorizonsLazzerini Family Foun…Amicus FoundationThe Nell J Redfield F…Resnick FoundationCommunity Foundation …Dermody Properties Fo…Bakersfield West Rota…Diane S Lake Charitab…
Kern Community FoundationCA39.9× affinity17 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kern Community Foundation · The Virginia and Alfred Harrell Foundation · Dignity Health · Greater Horizons · Lazzerini Family Foundation · Amicus Foundation · The Nell J Redfield Foundation · Resnick Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · Dermody Properties Foundation · Bakersfield West Rotary-Stroope Family Foundation · Diane S Lake Charitable Trust Lake Diane S Ttee

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 The Cynthia Lake Charitable Trust 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%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 79 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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