· Private foundation
Wurster Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| HONOR FLIGHT KERN COUNTY | $10,000 |
| RM PYLES BOYS CAMP | $5,000 |
| CSUB FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,200 |
| NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| PLEASANT VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL | $300 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 76% of your 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.
10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +18%
- RPRM PYLES BOYS CAMP4× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +72%
- JLJJs Legacy3× · 2017–2021 · $17k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- TUTHE UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF THE MENNONITE BRETHREN CHURCHESone grant, 2017 · $18k
- WCWILDCAT COMITTEE BOYS CAMPone grant, 2021 · $5k
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETESgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +54%
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.
Dedicated to assisting kern county residents who need financial assistance in obtaining treatment for cancer and associated diseases.
Support of local law enforcement
The Condors Community Foundation (the Foundation) mission is to support community organizations whose purpose is to enhance the health, education and general well-being of Kern County residents, particularly children and families in need.…
To represent, protect and advance the social, economic and educational interest of the farmers in kern county, california.
Kern medical center foundation is dedicated to promote education and programs that support the mission of kern medical center
Provide financial and emotional support to families in Kern County who face infertility by relieving the finacial burden of expensive treatments of IVF, surrogacy and adoption. The foundation offers family grants, monthly support groups…
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 bring awareness and stature to our community; to advocate healthy, active lifestyles; and to raise funds for local causes - all through the sport of running. proceeds from the event benefit california state university, bakersfield…
the organization's mission is the prevention of juvenile delinquency in kern county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California State University Bakersfield Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Loma Linda University Health. 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 32 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 SKEET SHOOTING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RM PYLES BOYS CAMP ↗
- Who funds JJs Legacy ↗
- Who funds TAFT COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HONOR FLIGHT KERN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NOBODY FIGHTS ALONE ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds Going Coconuts For a Cure Inc ↗
- Who funds LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds College of the Sequoias Foundation ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds Tigerfight Foundation ↗
- Who funds LINKS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds MARE Riding Center ↗
- Who funds Magdalene Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds Bakersfield Recovery Services ↗
- Who funds DIABLO VALLEY BASEBALL CLUB IN ↗
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 · The Virginia and Alfred Harrell Foundation · Lazzerini Family Foundation · For All the Children Foundation · Robert Grimm Family Foundation · Diane S Lake Charitable Trust Lake Diane S Ttee · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Wurster Family 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.