Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Bakersfield, California

50
foundations with a Bakersfield address
$13.6M
grants paid, FY2024–FY2025
18
say they accept unsolicited
$6,500
median grant

Grantlas lists 50 foundations that gave a Bakersfield, California address on their tax filing — 45 private foundations and 5 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2024–FY2025. Together they paid out $13.6 million in grants in their latest filing year, and 18 of them (36%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a Bakersfield foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.

Top 25 of 50 foundations

Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing, with the ones that accept unsolicited requests first, then the ones whose filing doesn’t say.

Foundations in Bakersfield, California
Ravi and Naina Patel FoundationAccepts$25,000$1.9M$100–$529,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Jim and Elouise Elder FoundationAccepts$25,000$591,000$1,000–$200,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Virginia and Alfred HarrellAccepts$15,000$584,782$1,000–$79,977FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Robert Grimm Family FoundationAccepts$15,000$391,783$5,000–$61,840FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Robert Raskind Charitable FoundationAccepts$34,000$355,300$2,500–$150,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
William & Florence Wheeler FoundationAccepts$8,750$327,692$1,000–$64,750FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Seedcore FoundationAccepts$2,420$274,580$175–$99,775FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Harry and Ethel West FoundationAccepts$2,600$186,656$250–$40,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Ben H and Gladys Arkelian FoundationAccepts$2,500$136,639$250–$32,975FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Meger Family FoundationAccepts$8,915$103,110$2,000–$23,400FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Dennis & Anne Beaver FoundationAccepts$52,496$58,171$46,820–$58,171FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Oh Family FoundationAccepts$3,000$50,240$200–$30,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Kern Division Retired Teachers SchoAccepts$1,750$19,250One amountFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Gordhan Dass FoundationAccepts$750$11,004$500–$1,502FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Aaron FoundationAccepts$850$6,800$100–$5,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Jo Ann Obenshain Scholarship FundAccepts$5,000$5,000—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Vedanta Vedike IncAccepts$419$419—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
California Junior Miss Scholarship FoundationAccepts$1$1—FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Kern Community FoundationCommunity foundationNot stated$39,175Over $5k only$5.2M$7,000–$2.9MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Bakersfield East Rotary FoundationPublic foundationNot stated$39,000Over $5k only$149,041One amountFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Bakersfield West Rotary-Stroope Family FoundationPublic foundationNot stated$13,858Over $5k only$108,424$8,850–$13,858FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
CARE - Childrens Advocates Resource EndowmentPublic foundationNot stated$9,689Over $5k only$83,296$5,127–$16,956FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Youth 2 Leaders Education FoundatioCommunity foundationNot stated—Over $5k only$41,250—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Trichell Family FoundationInvitation only$50,000$905,000$10,000–$1MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Steinert Family FoundationInvitation only$46,500$593,215$3,000–$192,215FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from each funder’s grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report. Community foundations and other charities list only grants over $5,000, so their figures run high.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.

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Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2024–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.