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COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN

COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN (California) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,631,224 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($5,000,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$181M
Revenue FY2025
50
Funders on record
$14M
Grants received
$52M
Net assets
26/50 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%

Against its field

COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 155 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · above the median
Months of reserve1.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 155 human services nonprofits over $100M, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($75M) Expenses 100 ($75M) Net assets 100 ($11M)2018 Revenue 100 ($75M) Expenses 99 ($74M) Net assets 109 ($12M)2019 Revenue 107 ($80M) Expenses 107 ($80M) Net assets 113 ($12M)2020 Revenue 132 ($99M) Expenses 132 ($98M) Net assets 120 ($13M)2021 Revenue 158 ($118M) Expenses 157 ($117M) Net assets 129 ($14M)2022 Revenue 159 ($119M) Expenses 150 ($112M) Net assets 197 ($22M)2024 Revenue 226 ($169M) Expenses 214 ($159M) Net assets 419 ($46M)2025 Revenue 242 ($181M) Expenses 236 ($176M) Net assets 469 ($52M)
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Revenue (242)Expenses (236)Net assets (469)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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 (20% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 261 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$181k
17
$989k
18
$486k
19
$748k
20
$977k
21
$7.5M
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$9.7M
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$5.5M
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1.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $50k → $2.3M.

8 of 50 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 50 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 37% 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

70% 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.

37%
largest funder
68%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 77% · 2019 42% · 2020 30% · 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

22% of COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

84% of COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN's grant income comes from California funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

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.

03Its place in the field

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 50 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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.

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.

Federal$381.7M
grants $381.7Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • 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

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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 7%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

CA

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Friendship House Community Center · exempt
  • Community Action Partnership of Kern Foundation · exempt

Screen this organization

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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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 COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN?
COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN (California) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,631,224 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 50 organizations giving $13,631,224 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.

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 50funders 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