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The Skeet Varner 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.

$174k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$25k
Largest
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 FY20172025.

Religion$586kFood & Nutrition$574kEducation$396kCommunity Improvement$250kHuman Services$57kHousing & Shelter$41kPhilanthropy$34kHealth$23kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $143k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$796k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER$25,000
RADIUS INTERNATIONAL$20,000
BROOM TREE REFUGE$20,000
KEEPERS TRANSFORMATION HOUSE$15,200
BAKERSFIELD COLLEGE FOUNDATION$13,000
KERN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
MISSION AT KERN COUNTY$10,000
CROSSOVER CHURCH$10,000
FRENCH FOUNDATION$10,000
FIVESTONES CHURCHES$10,000
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD FOUNDATION$7,000
MARKET OF HOPE$5,001
YOUTH FOR CHRIST OF KERN COUNTY$5,000
GARDEN PATHWAYS$3,750
BAKERSFIELD ANGELS$2,500
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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%CALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER: $25k → 10%CALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER: $5k → 10%BAKERSFIELD ANGELS: $3k → 18%BAKERSFIELD ANGELS: $3k → 18%BAKERSFIELD ANGELS: $3k → 18%GARDEN PATHWAYS: $4k → 18%GARDEN PATHWAYS: $4k → 18%GARDEN PATHWAYS: $4k → 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

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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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 21 repeat orgs$336k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
8

Total granted

$1.6M
$307k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+2%

Still filing today

52%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthReligionYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther

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

  • CS
    CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2025 · $305k · revenue +18%
  • RI
    RADIUS INTERNATIONAL
    3× · 2023–2025 · $95k · revenue +52%
  • TB
    THE BROOM TREE REFUGE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $75k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • CB
    CSU BAKERSFIELD
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
  • CC
    COVENANT COMMUNITY
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • BC
    BAKERSFIELD CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +1%

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
Greater Bakersfield Chamber of Commerce

Provide support, networking, and education to the business community of bakersfield and kern county.

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
California Budget & Policy Center

The budget center provides dependable, timely, policy guidance and public education through our independent research and analysis, public education, strategic collaborations, and communications to expand economic opportunities and promote…

Education
4
Cbcc Foundation for Community Wellness Inc

Serving the educational, financial, and emotional needs of kern county cancer patients and their families. providing assistance to individuals with financial hardship to relieve medical debt.

Health
5
Baker Family Foundation of California

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.

Philanthropy
6
Bakersfield Arc Foundation

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.

Health
7
United Way of Central Eastern California Dba United Way of Kern County

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…

Philanthropy
8
Bakersfield Recovery Services

Provide residential and outpatient treatment for drug and alcohol abuse.

Health
9
Bakersfield Arc Inc

assist developmentally disabled individuals.

Human Services
10
Kern Medical Center Foundation

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

Health
11
Central California Food Bank

Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…

Food & Nutrition
12
Bakersfield Pregnancy Center Foundation

The objective of the foundation is ownership of real property.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bakersfield Crisis Pregnancy Center and the most unlike its peers is Market of Hope. 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

18 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 38 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
11/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE MISSION AT KERN COUNTY — $609,300 · OtherTHE MISSION AT KERN COUNTYCSU BAKERSFIELD — $250,000 · OtherCSU BAKERSFIELDLAURELGLEN BIBLE CHURCH — $230,100 · OtherLAURELGLEN BIBLE CHURCHRIVERLAKES COMMUNITY CHURCH — $68,400 · OtherKEEPERS TRANSFORMATION HOUSE — $53,200 · Other+21 more — $134,001 · Other+21 moreCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD FOUNDATION — $305,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVE…BAKERSFIELD COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $88,500 · EducationBAKERSFIELD COLLEGE FO…+1 more — $2,500 · EducationRADIUS INTERNATIONAL — $95,000 · InternationalTHE BROOM TREE REFUGE — $75,000 · Religion+1 more — $1,000 · ReligionCALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER — $30,000 · Human ServicesGarden Pathways Inc — $11,250 · Human ServicesTRANSFORMATIONS BY AUSTIN ANGELS — $7,500 · Human ServicesBAKERSFIELD CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER — $20,000 · HealthTEEN CHALLENGE OF SOUTH CALIF INC — $3,000 · HealthKERN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,345,001Education$396,000International$95,000Religion$76,000Human Services$48,750Health$23,000Philanthropy$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD FOUNDATION — $305,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetRADIUS INTERNATIONAL — $95,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetBAKERSFIELD COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $88,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BROOM TREE REFUGE — $75,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetCALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBAKERSFIELD CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetKERN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBAKERSFIELD NORTH ROTARY FOUNDATION — $14,300 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetKERN COUNTY YOUTH FOR CHRIST — $12,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGarden Pathways Inc — $11,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOYOTE CLUB — $10,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetTRANSFORMATIONS BY AUSTIN ANGELS — $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KERN COUNTY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEEN CHALLENGE OF SOUTH CALIF INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Bible Study — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKERN COUNTY MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $500 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.

  • Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD FOUNDATION
  • Who funds RADIUS INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds BAKERSFIELD COLLEGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE BROOM TREE REFUGE
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER
  • Who funds BAKERSFIELD CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER
  • Who funds KERN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BAKERSFIELD NORTH ROTARY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds KERN COUNTY YOUTH FOR CHRIST
  • Who funds Garden Pathways Inc
  • Who funds COYOTE CLUB
  • Who funds TRANSFORMATIONS BY AUSTIN ANGELS
  • Who funds MARKET OF HOPE
  • Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KERN COUNTY
  • Who funds TEEN CHALLENGE OF SOUTH CALIF INC
  • Who funds TAFT COLLEGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Community Bible Study
  • Who funds KERN COUNTY MUSEUM FOUNDATION

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 FoundationCA28.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kern Community Foundation · Amicus Foundation · Diane S Lake Charitable Trust Lake Diane S Ttee · Valley Strong Cu Fka Kern Schools Federal Credit Union · California Community Foundation · Louis and Sheryl Barbich Foundation · Batey Family Charitable Trust · Lazzerini Family Foundation · Seedcore Foundation · The Virginia and Alfred Harrell Foundation · Dignity Health · The California Endowment

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 Skeet Varner 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.

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no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Skeet Varner Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Skeet Varner Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 38 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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