California · Nonprofit
Bakersfield Art Foundation Inc DBA Bakersfield Museum of Art
Bakersfield Art Foundation Inc DBA Bakersfield Museum of Art (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $629,041 to it, the largest being KERN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($229,039). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $629k
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Bakersfield Art Foundation Inc DBA Bakersfield Museum of Art does
Mission
The Bakersfield Museum of Art inspires and engages diverse audiences by providing a broad spectrum of creative visual arts experiences through the exhibition and preservation of fine art, educational programs, community outreach and special events.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Exhibits - The primary purpose of the Bakersfield Museum of Art is to provide a broad spectrum of visual arts experiences through the exhibition and preservation of fine art, educational programs, community outreach, and special events. We have approximately 25,000 visitors each year. In addition to free admission and extended hours on the first Friday of each month, we offer second Saturday lectures and free art activities for families on the second Saturday of each month. We also offer free admission to military families during the summer months through the blue star museum program.
$272,451 spent$48,813 earned by the program51% of program spendingThe Museum provides significant educational programs including docent tours to students, art education classes during the school day for 5th grade students, after-school art enrichment classes, semester-long art enrichment classes for high school students, and summer art camps. More than 3,000 students participate in docent tours during a school year. Art education classes for 5th grade students reach more than 3,500 students annually and more than 5,000 students are served through the after-school art enrichment classes at 17 different schools. The high school free semester-long program provides guidance, mentoring, and education to 20 students annually where they learn also about art in our community and skills to pursue a career in the visual arts. Summer camp reaches approximately 500 children ages 5 to 17 years.
$257,004 spent$568,109 earned by the program49% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $529,455.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $3.1M to $2.8M (−9%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
51% of Bakersfield Art Foundation Inc DBA Bakersfield Museum of Art’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Amy Smith
Exec Dir/CEO
Board chair
Laura Cattani
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $74k → $22k.
2 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Bakersfield Art Foundation Inc DBA Bakersfield Museum of Art’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Bakersfield Art Foundation Inc DBA Bakersfield Museum of Art leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
47% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Bakersfield Art Foundation Inc DBA Bakersfield Museum of Art.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 37% · 2019 35% · 2020 44% · 2021 34% · 2022 35% · 2023 46% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
50% of Bakersfield Art Foundation Inc DBA Bakersfield Museum of Art's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
96% of Bakersfield Art Foundation Inc DBA Bakersfield Museum of Art's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $230k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Bakersfield Art Foundation Inc DBA Bakersfield Museum of Art's revenue grew 48% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Bakersfield Art Foundation Inc DBA Bakersfield Museum of Art
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
39% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Bakersfield Art Foundation Inc DBA Bakersfield Museum of Art?
- Bakersfield Art Foundation Inc DBA Bakersfield Museum of Art (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $629,041 to it, the largest being KERN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($229,039). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Bakersfield Art Foundation Inc DBA Bakersfield Museum of Art have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $629,041 in grants to Bakersfield Art Foundation Inc DBA Bakersfield Museum of Art, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Bakersfield Art Foundation Inc DBA Bakersfield Museum of Art?
- KERN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $229,039 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Bakersfield Art Foundation Inc DBA Bakersfield Museum of Art find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 18 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing