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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
MI
NY
NV
CA
KY
MD
AR
TN
NC
MS
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

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%
+73%

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

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Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

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
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.

04Its field

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.

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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Assistance League of Bakersfield; 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.
04the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 79 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/50
Grantees still filing
40/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetHONOR FLIGHT NEVADA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetKern County Basque Club: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetLIFESAVERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBALBOA ISLAND MUSEUM: $9,100 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCBCC FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY WELLNESS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetCOVENANT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGarden Pathways Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA 9-11 MEMORIAL: $5,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetKern Literacy Council: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPROJECT 150: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVALLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBAKERSFIELD CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBAKERSFIELD FIREFIGHTERS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 1.9% 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
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.

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…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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Cynthia Lake Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cynthia Lake Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 79 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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