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Epilepsy Society of Kern County

Epilepsy Society of Kern County (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,500 to it, the largest being KERN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($11,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$10k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$15k
Net assets
$140k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 39%
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 ($54k) Expenses 100 ($72k) Net assets 100 ($298k)2018 Revenue 89 ($48k) Expenses 99 ($71k) Net assets 92 ($275k)2019 Revenue 93 ($50k) Expenses 95 ($68k) Net assets 86 ($257k)2020 Revenue 59 ($32k) Expenses 69 ($49k) Net assets 80 ($239k)2021 Revenue 76 ($41k) Expenses 36 ($26k) Net assets 85 ($254k)2022 Revenue 47 ($25k) Expenses 89 ($63k) Net assets 73 ($216k)2023 Revenue 70 ($38k) Expenses 89 ($64k) Net assets 64 ($190k)2024 Revenue 68 ($37k) Expenses 97 ($69k) Net assets 53 ($158k)2025 Revenue 18 ($10k) Expenses 39 ($28k) Net assets 47 ($140k)
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Revenue (18)Expenses (39)Net assets (47)Peer revenue range

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 $257k to $218k (−15%).

$300k
$277k
$259k
$240k
$257k
$218k
$192k
$159k
$141k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $1k.

Funder
'19
'20
'23
total
funders
1
2
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 Epilepsy Society of Kern County’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

Epilepsy Society of Kern County leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% 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

79% 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 Epilepsy Society of Kern County.

79%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 92% · 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

79% of Epilepsy Society of Kern County's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.

VA

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. $12k 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.

03Its place in the field

Against its field

Epilepsy Society of Kern County holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 6,360 health nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve58.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−19% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,360 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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04Profile & governance

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Epilepsy Society of Kern County?
Epilepsy Society of Kern County (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,500 to it, the largest being KERN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($11,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Epilepsy Society of Kern County have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $14,500 in grants to Epilepsy Society of Kern County, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Epilepsy Society of Kern County?
KERN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $11,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Epilepsy Society of Kern County 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 2 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