California · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN
COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN (California) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,770,304 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($5,000,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $181M
- Funders on record
- 53
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $52M
What Community Action Partnership of Kern does
Mission
None
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Child education and development services: to provide comprehensive child education and development services for 1,809 income eligible children six weeks to five years of age, and their families. Also includes a statewide child care program to provide children of migrant farm workers with a safe, nurturing and educationally growing environment.
$90,427,296 spent$27,035 earned by the program55% of program spendingNutrition services: includes the (1) child and adult care food program which provides nutritional lunch meals and snacks to the 1,690 children enrolled in the child education and development services program, (2) the women, infants and children program which provides temporary nutritional assistance and counseling for 14,710 pregnant and non-pregnant women, men and grandparents per month who are raising infants and children who are nutritionally at risk and (3) the food bank program which is one of the largest food banks in california providing emergency food assistance and distributing more than 22.5 million pounds of food annually.
$54,700,416 spent$273,093 earned by the program34% of program spendingEnergy services: the agency provides utility assistance to more than 6,500 households on an annual basis. An applicant can only receive this benefit once in a 12 month period. The applicant must reside in kern county, have a total household income at or below 150 percent of the federal poverty income guidelines and have a utility bill with at least 30 days of service.weatherization services: the agency provides assistance to more than 140 households on an annual basis. A resident can receive weatherization assistance once every four years. To qualify, the applicant must reside in kern county and have a household income at or below 150 percent of the federal poverty income guidelines.
$6,880,041 spent4% of program spendingOther program services include (1) comprehensive information and referral services that link kern county residents to community health and human services and support. Capk has been designated by the california public utilities commission as the 2-1-1 provider for kern county. Services are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. (2) free tax preparation services to low-to-moderate income individuals, families and seniors. (3) youth services to provide programs that focus on nutrition, education, recreation, teen pregnancy prevention and active health living. (4) comprehensive homeless prevention and intervention services by way of coordinated entry services and the m street navigation center.
$11,211,877 spent$1,489,016 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $163,219,630.
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 $24M to $41M (+69%).
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 76% · 2018 78% · 2019 77% · 2020 70% · 2021 68% · 2022 76% · 2024 78% · 2025 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (17% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Jeremy Tobias
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Maritza Jimenez
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $50k → $2.3M.
9 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 funders by total. 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
COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% 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 COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 77% · 2019 42% · 2020 29% · 2021 29% · 2022 65% · 2023 71% — 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
21% of COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
83% of COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 178 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 178 human services nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $381.7M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$373.6M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$4.7M
- Department of the Treasury$2.0M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$1.4M
- Department of Labor$7k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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
93% 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
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Friendship House Community Center · exempt
- Community Action Partnership of Kern Foundation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN?
- COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN (California) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,770,304 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($5,000,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $13,770,304 in grants to COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $5,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN 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 53 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