California · Nonprofit
Bakersfield Womens Business Conference
Bakersfield Womens Business Conference (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $108,931 to it, the largest being VALLEY STRONG CU FKA KERN SCHOOLS FEDERAL CREDIT UNION ($106,100). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Bakersfield Womens Business Conference has grown faster than half of the 15,926 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Virginia and Alfred Harrell Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Kern Community Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Bakersfield West Rotary-Stroope Family Foundationlocalportfolio match
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.
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.
35% of Bakersfield Womens Business Conference’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $35k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $69k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest San Joaquin Community Hospital dba Adventist Health Bakersfield). These are real filings, and they are not money Bakersfield Womens Business Conference raised.
From the IRS filings of Bakersfield Womens Business Conference’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 Womens Business Conference leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 Womens Business Conference.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 95% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of Bakersfield Womens Business Conference's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $81 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Virginia and Alfred Harrell Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchCA · backs 18 organizations that share your funders · funds 81 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Kern Community Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchCA · backs 48 organizations that share your funders · funds 185 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Bakersfield West Rotary-Stroope Family Foundationlocalportfolio matchCA · funds 21 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Diane S Lake Charitable Trust Lake Diane S Tteelocalportfolio matchCA · funds 29 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Skeet Varner Foundationlocalportfolio matchCA · funds 15 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- William & Florence Wheeler Foundationlocalportfolio matchCA · funds 23 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Wurster Family Foundationlocalportfolio matchCA · funds 12 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Mary E Moore Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 100 Women in Finance Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bakersfield Memorial HospitallocalAZ · funds 32 organizations near you
- Lazzerini Family FoundationlocalCA · funds 21 organizations near you
- United Way of Central Eastern California Dba United Way of Kern CountylocalCA · funds 10 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Bakersfield Womens Business Conference
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Bakersfield Womens Business Conference: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Bakersfield Womens Business Conference?
- Bakersfield Womens Business Conference (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $108,931 to it, the largest being VALLEY STRONG CU FKA KERN SCHOOLS FEDERAL CREDIT UNION ($106,100). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Bakersfield Womens Business Conference have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $108,931 in grants to Bakersfield Womens Business Conference, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Bakersfield Womens Business Conference?
- VALLEY STRONG CU FKA KERN SCHOOLS FEDERAL CREDIT UNION is the largest funder on record, with $106,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Bakersfield Womens Business Conference 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.
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 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing