· Private foundation
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 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 $10k15 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $143k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER | $25,000 |
| BROOM TREE REFUGE | $20,000 |
| RADIUS INTERNATIONAL | $20,000 |
| KEEPERS TRANSFORMATION HOUSE | $15,200 |
| BAKERSFIELD COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $13,000 |
| FRENCH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| KERN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CROSSOVER CHURCH | $10,000 |
| FIVESTONES CHURCHES | $10,000 |
| MISSION AT KERN COUNTY | $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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +18% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 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 KERN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAKERSFIELD CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Skeet Varner Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Skeet Varner Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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