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KERN COUNTY WWII VETERANS MEMORIAL

KERN COUNTY WWII VETERANS MEMORIAL (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $151,000 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($150,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$2k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$151k
Net assets
$38k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 24%
01What it does

What Kern County Wwii Veterans Memorial does

Mission

To create a permanent tribute honoring all kern county wwii veterans and those who supported them. To serve our community with a beautiful memorial that will be a permanent place of reverence and tribute, and will also provide historical wwii education for the entire community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Build and maintain a permanent wwii veterans memorial located at jastro park in bakersfield, ca. This memorial is an outside structure that includes the names of kern countys wwii veterans who gave their lives in the line of service for our nation, as well as the names of kern county wwii veterans who came home. All names are engraved in granite and there are various benches with inscriptions and historical information about wwii. The illuminated national flag flies over the memorial along with the california flag flying below it. It is easily viewed from the street and visitors are encouraged to read and touch the memorial.

    $5,083 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,083.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($636k) Expenses 100 ($364k) Net assets 100 ($272k)2023 Revenue 5 ($34k) Expenses 38 ($137k) Net assets 86 ($234k)2024 Revenue 11 ($68k) Expenses 71 ($260k) Net assets 15 ($41k)2025 Revenue 0 ($2k) Expenses 1 ($5k) Net assets 14 ($38k)
2022202320242025
Revenue (0)Expenses (1)Net assets (14)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 2023 to 2024, from $234k to $41k (−82%).

$272k
$234k
$41k
$38k
2022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of KERN COUNTY WWII VETERANS MEMORIAL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$272k
’22
−$103k
’23
−$193k
’24
−$3k
’25
91
months of
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.

2022202320242025
Listed9496
Joined·+1+5+3
No longer listed·606
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 KERN COUNTY WWII VETERANS MEMORIAL’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

KERN COUNTY WWII VETERANS MEMORIAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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

99% 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 KERN COUNTY WWII VETERANS MEMORIAL.

99%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

99% of KERN COUNTY WWII VETERANS MEMORIAL'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 $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $150k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

KERN COUNTY WWII VETERANS MEMORIAL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−123% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve90.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−85% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited 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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KERN COUNTY WWII VETERANS MEMORIAL: 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 KERN COUNTY WWII VETERANS MEMORIAL?
KERN COUNTY WWII VETERANS MEMORIAL (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $151,000 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($150,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does KERN COUNTY WWII VETERANS MEMORIAL have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $151,000 in grants to KERN COUNTY WWII VETERANS MEMORIAL.
Who is the largest funder of KERN COUNTY WWII VETERANS MEMORIAL?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KERN COUNTY WWII VETERANS MEMORIAL 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 2022–2025), 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