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The Virginia and Alfred Harrell Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$567k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of THE VIRGINIA AND ALFRED HARRELL FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $427k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$14,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CALIFORNIA LIVING MUSEUM FOUNDATION$50,000
KERN RIVER CONSERVANCY$50,000
VALLEY ACHIEVEMENT CENTER$47,437
THE HUB OF BAKERSFIELD$35,000
SJV WATER$30,000
RM PYLES BOYS CAMP$25,600
TRANSFORMATIONS BY BAKERSFIELD ANGELS$25,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA SOUTH$25,000
HELPING ANIMALS LIVE TOMORROW$25,000
LOS PADRES FOREST WATCH$25,000
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL EASTERN CALIFORNIA$20,000
APPLE CORE PROJECT INC$20,000
MERCY FOUNDATION-BAKERSFIELD$19,602
LABORERS OF THE HARVEST$15,000
ARTS COUNCIL OF KERN$15,000
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 (FY17–23, $682k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF BAKERSFIELD: $10k → 18%OILDALE COMMUNITY ACTION TEAM: $48k → 18%SLEEPY BABY BOX FOUNDATION: $21k → 18%HOFFMAN HOSPICE: $38k → 18%HOFFMAN HOSPICE: $23k → 18%HOFFMAN HOSPICE: $3k → 18%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN: $87k → 18%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN: $35k → 18%INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER OF KERN COUNTY: $20k → 18%HEARTS CONNECTION: $13k → 18%BAKERSFIELD SENIOR CENTER: $15k → 18%KERN PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $20k → 18%BAKERSFIELD ARC: $20k → 18%BAKERSFIELD ARC: $20k → 18%KERN PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $20k → 18%KERN PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $10k → 18%FLOOD BAKERSFIELD MINISTRIES: $72k → 18%CHILDREN FIRST CAMPAIGN: $55k → 18%GARDEN PATHWAYS: $50k → 18%CHILDREN FIRST CAMPAIGN: $30k → 18%ALLIANCE AGAINST FAMILY VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT: $20k → 18%CHILD GUIDANCE GUILD OF BAKERSFIELD INC: $18k → 18%ALLIANCE AGAINST FAMILY VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT: $7k → 18%CHILD GUIDANCE GUILD OF BAKERSFIELD INC: $17k → 18%THE OPEN DOOR NETWORK: $4k → 18%CHILD GUIDANCE GUILD OF BAKERSFIELD INC: $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.

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.8M · 64 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

64 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
76

Total granted

$3.8M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+58%

Still filing today

72%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k 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
Human ServicesAnimalsEnvironmentArts & CultureEducationHealthOther

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

  • TF
    TREE FOUNDATION OF KERN INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $309k · revenue +38% · 88% of their budget
  • TB
    THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KERN COUNTY
    6× · 2017–2023 · $231k · revenue +147%
  • KC
    KERN COUNTY MUSEUM FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2023 · $171k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • KM
    Kern Medical Center Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -72%
  • BH
    BAKERSFIELD HOMELESS SHELTER
    one grant, 2019 · $95k
  • AA
    ALLIANCE AGAINST FAMILY AND SEXUAL ASSAULT
    one grant, 2022 · $78k

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
Epilepsy Society of Kern County
Health
3
Bakersfield Kern Regional Homeless Collaborative

To end homelessness in kern county through collaborative planning and action.

Human Services
4
Bakersfield Recovery Services

Provide residential and outpatient treatment for drug and alcohol abuse.

Health
5
The Kern Project

To save homeless animals of kern county through rescue, rehabilitation, rehoming, and the promotion of spay-neuter

Animals
6
Kern County Sheriffs Department Search and Rescue-Kern Valley Unit

The specific purpose for which this corporation is organized are to provide rescue and emergency services beneficial to the public interest, to assist the Kern County Sheriff's Department, Office of Emergency Services of the State of…

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Kern County Fire Department Retired Employees Asso

Support of local retired firefighters

Recreation & Sports
8
Kern County Farm Bureau

To represent, protect and advance the social, economic and educational interest of the farmers in kern county, california.

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9
Kern County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

To create, promote and enhance business opportunities for our membership, and provide business, cultural and resource linkages, with special emphasis on the Hispanic community.

—
10
Kern County Network for Children

Assure community services to children

Human Services
11
Kern County Law Enforcement Foundation

Support of local law enforcement

—
12
Friends of the Kern County Fair

The primary purpose of Friends of the Kern County fair is to raise money for the benefit of the 15th district agricultural association and showcasing agricultural industries to the community.

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kern County Museum Foundation and the most unlike its peers is SJVWater. 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 backsteadyBakersfield Community Organ…Family Philanthropic Founda…Higher Education Institutio…Kern County Community Organ…Jewish Youth Education & Ca…Youth Sports LeaguesFraternal Service LodgesDog Rescue and AdoptionCommunity Cultural Organiza…
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 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%5%<5yr13%12%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr15%29%20–35yr10%14%35–55yr16%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%2%<5yr13%9%5–10yr19%27%10–20yr15%27%20–35yr10%8%35–55yr16%26%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/111
the rest of the field
17%
425/2,496

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

95 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. 95 of the 151 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
40
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/95
Grantees still filing
69/95
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MERCY FOUNDATION BAKERSFIELD — $130,528 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY — $126,378 · OtherWhite Wolf Wellness Foundation — $122,500 · OtherUNITED WAY OF KERN — $100,000 · OtherBAKERSFIELD HOMELESS SHELTER — $95,126 · Other+94 more — $2,165,450 · Other+94 moreTREE FOUNDATION OF KERN INC — $308,731 · EnvironmentTREE FOUNDATION …KERN RIVER CONSERVANCY — $128,805 · EnvironmentKERN RIVER CONSE…The Wildlands Conservancy — $85,000 · EnvironmentThe Wildlands Co…California Native Plant Society — $81,500 · EnvironmentCalifornia Nativ…SJVWater — $80,000 · EnvironmentSJVWaterPROJECT CLEAN AIR INC — $56,399 · EnvironmentPROJECT CLEAN AI…Tejon Ranch Conservancy — $45,000 · EnvironmentTejon Ranch Cons…+2 more — $30,509 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN — $122,396 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTI…CHILDRENS FIRST INC — $85,000 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS FIRS…FLOOD BAKERSFIELD MINISTRIES INC — $71,900 · Human ServicesFLOOD BAKERSFI…Hoffmann Hospice of The Valley — $64,013 · Human ServicesHoffmann Hospi…KERN PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES — $50,000 · Human ServicesKERN PARTNERSH…Garden Pathways Inc — $50,000 · Human ServicesGarden Pathway…OILDALE COMMUNITY ACTION TEAM — $48,304 · Human ServicesOILDALE COMMUN…Bakersfield Arc Inc — $40,000 · Human ServicesBakersfield Ar…Child Guidance Guild of Bakersfield — $39,380 · Human ServicesChild Guidance…THE OPEN DOOR NETWORK — $31,778 · Human Services+5 more — $89,660 · Human Services+5 moreKERN COUNTY MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $171,159 · Arts & CultureKern Dance Alliance — $38,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ARTS COUNCIL OF KERN — $31,500 · Arts & CultureBakersfield Symphony Orchestra Inc — $30,000 · Arts & CultureTUBATULABALS OF KERN VALLEY — $25,500 · Arts & CultureBakersfield Art Foundation Inc DBA Bakersfield Museum of Art — $22,027 · Arts & CultureTEHACHAPI COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA FOUNDATION — $16,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $14,950 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD FOUNDATION — $96,750 · EducationKern Literacy Council — $83,085 · EducationValley Achievement Center — $47,437 · EducationBAKERSFIELD PLAY CENTER — $35,555 · EducationBAKERSFIELD COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $24,340 · EducationREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $18,614 · EducationLIGHTWAVE EDUCATION — $15,000 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORG — $12,000 · EducationKern Medical Center Foundation — $100,000 · HealthCSF Medical Non Profit Foundation — $73,400 · HealthKERN COUNTY CANCER FOUNDATION — $45,000 · HealthLINKS FOR LIFE — $30,600 · HealthAdventist Health Delano — $15,000 · HealthSan Joaquin Community Hospital dba Adventist Health Bakersfield — $15,000 · HealthJJs Legacy — $12,500 · Health+1 more — $5,940 · HealthTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KERN COUNTY — $230,814 · Youth DevelopmentBakersfield Police Activities League — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentSHINE TOGETHER INC — $18,000 · Youth Development
Other$2,739,982Environment$815,944Human Services$692,431Arts & Culture$349,136Education$332,781Health$297,440Youth Development$268,814

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 budgetTREE FOUNDATION OF KERN INC — $308,731 over 5y, 88% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KERN COUNTY — $230,814 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetKERN COUNTY MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $171,159 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetMERCY FOUNDATION BAKERSFIELD — $130,528 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetKERN RIVER CONSERVANCY — $128,805 over 5y, 44% of budgetWhite Wolf Wellness Foundation — $122,500 over 3y, 44% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN — $122,396 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKern Medical Center Foundation — $100,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD FOUNDATION — $96,750 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE WOMANS CLUB OF BAKERSFIELD — $86,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetGirl Scouts of Central California South Inc — $85,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCHILDRENS FIRST INC — $85,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetThe Wildlands Conservancy — $85,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKern Literacy Council — $83,085 over 4y, 22% of budgetCalifornia Native Plant Society — $81,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSJVWater — $80,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetTHE HUB OF BAKERSFIELD INC — $77,000 over 3y, 45% of budgetBakersfield Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals — $75,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetLABORERS OF THE HARVEST — $75,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetCSF Medical Non Profit Foundation — $73,400 over 3y, 33% of budgetFLOOD BAKERSFIELD MINISTRIES INC — $71,900 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWeill Child Guidance Foundation — $70,733 over 2y, 51% of budgetHoffmann Hospice of The Valley — $64,013 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT CLEAN AIR INC — $56,399 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTransformations by Bakersfield Angels — $51,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetKERN PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES — $50,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetGarden Pathways Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCALIFORNIA LIVING MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetRM PYLES BOYS CAMP — $47,817 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetValley Achievement Center — $47,437 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL EASTERN CALIFORNIA DBA UNITED WAY OF KERN COUNTY — $45,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetKERN COUNTY CANCER FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetTejon Ranch Conservancy — $45,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetCritters Without Litters Inc — $40,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBakersfield Arc Inc — $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetChild Guidance Guild of Bakersfield — $39,380 over 3y, 13% of budgetKern Dance Alliance — $38,000 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetBAKERSFIELD PLAY CENTER — $35,555 over 1y, 17% of budgetKern Athletic Fencing Foundation Inc — $33,900 over 4y, 18% of budgetHAVE-A-HEART HUMANE SOCIETY — $32,454 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR NETWORK — $31,778 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ARTS COUNCIL OF KERN — $31,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetSTRENGTH OF SHADOW DOG RESCUE INC — $31,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetLINKS FOR LIFE — $30,600 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetBakersfield Symphony Orchestra Inc — $30,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetKERN RIVER FOUNDATION — $29,000 over 4y, 31% of budgetMARE Riding Center — $28,755 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetTUBATULABALS OF KERN VALLEY — $25,500 over 1y, 7.0% 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…Resnick FoundationDiane S Lake Charitab…Dignity HealthValley Strong Cu Fka …Bakersfield Memorial …Bakersfield West Rota…The Cynthia Lake Char…CARE - Childrens Advo…Lazzerini Family Foun…William & Florence Wh…Patricia Crail Brown …
Kern Community FoundationCA103.3× affinity50 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kern Community Foundation · Resnick Foundation · Diane S Lake Charitable Trust Lake Diane S Ttee · Dignity Health · Valley Strong Cu Fka Kern Schools Federal Credit Union · Bakersfield Memorial Hospital · Bakersfield West Rotary-Stroope Family Foundation · The Cynthia Lake Charitable Trust · CARE - Childrens Advocates Resource Endowment · Lazzerini Family Foundation · William & Florence Wheeler Foundation · Patricia Crail Brown Foundation

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 Virginia and Alfred Harrell 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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How do I get to The Virginia and Alfred Harrell Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Virginia and Alfred Harrell 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 151 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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