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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $143k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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.
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 +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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- CSCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2025 · $305k · revenue +18%
- RIRADIUS INTERNATIONAL3× · 2023–2025 · $95k · revenue +52%
- TBTHE BROOM TREE REFUGE7× · 2019–2025 · $75k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- CBCSU BAKERSFIELDone grant, 2021 · $250k
- CCCOVENANT COMMUNITYone grant, 2024 · $25k
- BCBAKERSFIELD CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTERone 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.
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.
Provide support, networking, and education to the business community of bakersfield and kern county.
Dedicated to assisting kern county residents who need financial assistance in obtaining treatment for cancer and associated diseases.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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…
Provide residential and outpatient treatment for drug and alcohol abuse.
assist developmentally disabled individuals.
Kern medical center foundation is dedicated to promote education and programs that support the mission of kern medical center
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…
The objective of the foundation is ownership of real property.
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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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