How to apply
Accepts applications
The return gives an application contact and rules, as below.
- Contact person
- On file
- Phone
- On file
- Mailing address
- On file
- Form and materials
- On file
- Deadlines
- N/A
- Restrictions
- N/A
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Assets and giving by year
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Tax year 2024
$327,692
- Grants listed
- 22
- Assets, end of year
- $5,228,060
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Tax year 2023
$324,641
- Grants listed
- 26
- Assets, end of year
- $4,932,358
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Tax year 2022
$270,455
- Grants listed
- 18
- Assets, end of year
- $4,778,194
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Tax year 2021
$246,633
- Grants listed
- 18
- Assets, end of year
- $5,043,288
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Tax year 2020
$285,500
- Grants listed
- 22
- Assets, end of year
- $4,512,445
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Tax year 2019
$346,200
- Grants listed
- 28
- Assets, end of year
- $4,676,056
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Tax year 2018
$335,625
- Grants listed
- 23
- Assets, end of year
- $4,829,345
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Tax year 2017
$334,755
- Grants listed
- 19
- Assets, end of year
- $5,024,721
Grants paid in 2024
As listed on the return.
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Garces Memorial High SchoolBakersfield, CA
To help nurture students' spirituality, develop their intellect and their character.
$64,750 -
CMSF Heritage FoundationPaso Robles, CA
To preserve and enrich the heritage of the 16th district agricultural association and showcase agricultural industries to the community; to offer support to the 4-h and FFA projects and create agricultural education opportunities; maintain a standard of excellence in the facilities and create capital improvement opportunities and to serve as an arm of the california mid-state fair that can accept charitable donations.
$55,072 -
Hoffmann HospiceBakersfield, CA
To celebrate the sanctity of life, provide compassionate end-of-life care, and comfort the grieving.
$31,120 -
Bakersfield College FoundationBakersfield, CA
To support the collegiate rodeo team.
$30,000 -
Jack's Helping HandSN Luis Obisp, CA
To provide community programs that meet the unique challenges of children with cancer or special needs.
$25,000 -
Junior League of BakersfieldBakersfield, CA
To advance women's leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration, and training.
$20,000 -
Mendiburu Magic FoundationBakersfield, CA
To provide support for the unmet needs of children and their families that may be facing cancer and/or other catastrophic or life threatening illness.
$15,000 -
California Reining Horse AssociationTemecula, CA
To advance the sport of reining with dedication and passion.
$11,500 -
Alano Pintado Equine Health FoundationOlivos, CA
To further equine veterinary medicine with new advancements and impactful therapies to improve clinical outcomes.
$10,000 -
Boys & Girls Club of Kern CountyBakersfield, CA
To help young people improve scholartically, develop socially, and prepare professionally.
$10,000 -
Redwings Horse SanctuaryPaso Robles, CA
To eliminate the causes of equine suffering through educational and community outreach programs, rescue abused, abandoned, and neglected equines and provide permanent sanctuary or selected adoptive homes for those equines.
$10,000 -
Surfing for HopeSan Luis Obispo, CA
To help people ease the difficulty of cancer through the healing powers of surfing and the ocean life.
$10,000 -
Bakersfield Museum of ArtBakersfield, CA
To support museums that engages, inspires, and builds community through visual art.
$5,000 -
Boy Scouts of AmericaBakersfield, CA
To prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and scout law.
$5,000 -
Tunnel to Towers FoundationStaten Island, NY
To assist america's heroes by providing mortgage-free homes to gold star and fallen first responder families with young children and by building specially-adapted smart homes for catastrophically injured veterans and first responders. To assist america's heroes by providing mortgage-free homes to gold star and fallen first responder families with young children and by building specially-adapted smart homes for catastrophically injured veterans and first responders.to assist america's heroes by providing mortgage-free homes to gold star and fallen first responder families with young children and by building specially-adapted smart homes for catastrophically injured veterans and first responders.
$5,000 -
Woods Humane SocietySN Luis Obisp, CA
To serve, protect and shelter homeless companion animals and to place animals into humane environments. While promoting responsible pet ownership, provide humane education, and reduce animal overpopulation; and to celebrate the human-animal bond.
$5,000 -
Wounded Warriors Family SupportOmaha, NE
To provide support to the families of those who have been wounded, injured or killed during combat operations. The families of our casualties suffer in many ways: some physically, some psychologically.
$5,000 -
Jim Burke Education FoundationBakersfield, CA
To help the youth of kern county excel through grants, scholarships and civic projects.
$2,500 -
Kathy's Legacy FoundationCarlsbad, CA
To assist children whose lives are traumatically altered by the murder of a parent due to domestic violence.
$2,500 -
Zoo to YouPaso Robles, CA
To give a worldwide voice to wildlife by providing a permanent, loving home for displaced, abused, abandoned or permanently injured wild and exotic animals.
$2,500 -
St Francis School FoundationBakersfield, CA
To provide excellence in catholic education by preparing critical-thinking, disciplined, and active christian leaders.
$1,750 -
Bass Lake Chamber of CommerceBass Lake, CA
To ensure the continued firework display tradition that brings smiles and cheers from young to old alike.
$1,000
Where the money goes
By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.
- Education3 grants $37,50031% of the total
- Human services2 grants $30,00024% of the total
- Community development1 grant $20,00016% of the total
- Health1 grant $15,00012% of the total
- Youth development1 grant $10,0008% of the total
- Animals1 grant $5,0004% of the total
- 1 other causes1 grant $5,0004% of the total
By State
Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.
- California21 grants $322,692
- New York1 grant $5,000
Officers, directors and trustees
As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.
- Nancy L WheelerTRUSTEE Hours 8Pay $49,000
The return
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