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KERN PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES

KERN PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $302,041 to it, the largest being DIGNITY HEALTH ($84,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$256k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$302k
Net assets
$634k
6/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 43%
01What it does

What Kern Partnership for Children & Families does

Mission

The purpose of this Corporation shall be to provide support to the Kern County Department of Human Services to provide for non-funded approved activities or projects that serve in meeting the Department's vision to assure that every family, child and individual is healthy, safe and self-sufficient. This will be done by:(a) Providing funding through Grants for scholarships to support youth and parenting programs such as Cal-Learn (Parenting and Pregnant Teens) and YES (Youth Enhancement Services).(b) Providing incentives to participants in various youth and parenting programs such as Cal-Learn, YES, and youth involved in truancy program.(c) Providing non-funded services and programs to participants in various projects such as the Independent Living Program, Jamison Children's Center. parent education programs for families in need, and any other project that serves to assist the Department of Human Services in Kern County.(d) Providing contributions to worthy causes such as toys for chil

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Direct support to children in the foster system at christmas, and direct support to newly emancipated foster children completing their education and life skills. Diret support to kern county jamison children's center for at risk youth. Scholarships for emancipated youth. Support for children in the foster system and their families.

    $158,342 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $158,342.

02The 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 ($187k) Expenses 100 ($133k) Net assets 100 ($347k)2018 Revenue 113 ($211k) Expenses 129 ($171k) Net assets 111 ($386k)2019 Revenue 130 ($244k) Expenses 161 ($214k) Net assets 120 ($416k)2020 Revenue 90 ($168k) Expenses 135 ($179k) Net assets 117 ($405k)2021 Revenue 52 ($97k) Expenses 48 ($64k) Net assets 126 ($438k)2022 Revenue 75 ($141k) Expenses 102 ($136k) Net assets 128 ($443k)2023 Revenue 78 ($147k) Expenses 69 ($92k) Net assets 143 ($498k)2024 Revenue 82 ($153k) Expenses 86 ($115k) Net assets 155 ($536k)2025 Revenue 137 ($256k) Expenses 119 ($158k) Net assets 183 ($634k)
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Revenue (137)Expenses (119)Net assets (183)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 2024 to 2025, from $536k to $634k (+18%).

$347k
$386k
$416k
$405k
$438k
$443k
$498k
$536k
$634k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of KERN PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$54k
’17
$39k
’18
$29k
’19
−$11k
’20
$33k
’21
$5k
’22
$55k
’23
$39k
’24
$98k
’25
48
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.

2018201920242025
Listed1081012
Joined·+0·+4
No longer listed·2·2
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $28k → $51k.

2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES’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 PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

83% 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 PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES.

28%
largest funder
61%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 52% · 2019 100% · 2020 91% · 2021 97% · 2022 49% · 2023 99% — 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

40% of KERN PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

KERN PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 5 states in all.

PA
CA
AZ
GA
FL

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

’17
’18
’19
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $34k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

KERN PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin38% · top quartile
Months of reserve48.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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

12
board members
0%
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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds KERN PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES?
KERN PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $302,041 to it, the largest being DIGNITY HEALTH ($84,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KERN PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $302,041 in grants to KERN PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KERN PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES?
DIGNITY HEALTH is the largest funder on record, with $84,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KERN PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES 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 9 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