· Public charity
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 common good; collaborating with other organizations to leverage resources around critical community…
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL EASTERN CALIFORNIA DBA UNITED WAY OF KERN COUNTY’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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- $10k–50k1 grant · $26k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $265k
- $250k+1 grant · $466k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOUSING AUTHORITY | $465,968 |
| BAKERSFIELD HOMELESS CENTER | $130,538 |
| CALIFORNIA VETERANS ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION | $77,305 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION PARNTERSHIP OF KERN | $57,000 |
| OTHER SMALL GRANTS - CO UNITED WAY OF KERN COUNTY | $25,907 |
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 (FY17–20, $713k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 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.
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 +63% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $466k 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
- BSBETHANY SERVICES INC3× · 2017–2020 · $1.0M · revenue +63%
- CVCalifornia Veterans Assistance2× · 2019–2020 · $110k · revenue +15%
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN2× · 2017–2020 · $82k · revenue +142%
Funded once
- TOTHE OPEN DOOR NETWORKgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +885%
- TMTHE MISSION AT KERN COUNTYone grant, 2017 · $30k
- GEGOLDEN EMPIRE GLEANERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $18k · revenue +36%
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.
Mary's Mercy Center reaffirms the dignity of the poor and marginalized by providing food, clothing, and transitional housing to homeless families and individuals.
To end homelessness in kern county through collaborative planning and action.
Welcome Home Housing is a non-profit organization in Sacramento California that provides affordable housing and services to individuals with mental illness.
To meet the physical, relational and spiritual needs of the homeless, sober living home residents, motel dwellers and those entrenched in generational poverty within kern county
The Organization provides shelter, meals, clothing and counseling for victims of domestic violence, housing crisis, and/or poverty.
The rescue mission provides services to the homeless population in madera county in california. it provides housing for men, women, and families on an emergency short-term basis. it also operates a rehabilitation program for men and women.
to engage in social action through self-determination for all individuals by providing educational, financial, housing, and other support services.
Hands of Hope works to enhance the quality of life in the Yuba-Sutter area by: Providing core support services to the homeless; Reintegrating the homeless within our community; Engaging the community to respond to the challenge of…
The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.
Address the homeless crisis in California.
Provide residential and outpatient treatment for drug and alcohol abuse.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bethany Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alpha House a Place for New Beginnings. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 13 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 BETHANY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING AND OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION OF KERN ↗
- Who funds California Veterans Assistance ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR NETWORK ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL EASTERN CALIFORNIA DBA UNITED WAY OF KERN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN EMPIRE GLEANERS INC ↗
- Who funds The Hope Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Alpha House A Place for New Beginnings ↗
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: Bakersfield Memorial Hospital · Kern Community Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 United Way of Kern County 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.