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KERN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

EIN 77-0555874 BAKERSFIELD, CA

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Revenue 2024
$8,462,271
Expenses 2024
$8,783,895

Program services were 79.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T31
Classification
1000
Street
5701 TRUXTUN AVE STE 110

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 110). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

KERN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION'S MISSION IS GROWING COMMUNITY AND GROWING PHILANTHROPY.

  • KERN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION IS IN BUSINESS TO SERVE AS A CHARITABLE RESOURCE FOR LOCAL DONORS AND CORPORATIONS AND TO GENERATE CAPITAL THAT PROVIDES PHILANTHROPIC SOLUTIONS TO HELP MAKE KERN COUNTY A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE, TO WORK AND TO VISIT. THE FOUNDATION IS HOME FOR LOCAL PHILANTHROPISTS, WITH MORE THAN 175 NAMED FUNDS THAT HELP DONORS ORGANIZE AND ACHIEVE MEANINGFUL RESULTS FROM THEIR CHARITABLE GIVING. THE FOUNDATION IS A RESULTS-ORIENTED GRANTMAKER, AWARDING APPROXIMATELY $5,219,376 IN GRANTS IN 2024. THE FOUNDATION IS A TRUSTED COMMUNITY LEADER FOCUSING ON INITIATIVES SUCH AS COLLEGE ACCESS AND NONPROFIT STRENGTHENING.

    Expenses $7,001,636 · Grants $5,219,376 · Revenue $588,191

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Carlos Sanchez

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Glenda Garcia

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Vincent Oddo

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tanya Alsheikh

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Joe Gregory

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John C Hershey III

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Justin Leland

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lydia Chaney

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Laura Wolfe

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Aaron Falk

    PRESIDENT/CEO

    Total calculated
    $167,346
    From this org
    $167,346
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $167,346
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $167,346

  • Sara Palmer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Frank Woolridge

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $8,462,271
    Expenses
    $8,783,895
    Contributions
    $5,808,634
    Grants paid
    $5,219,376
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,081,433
    Expenses
    $4,300,421
    Contributions
    $3,204,144
    Grants paid
    $1,497,695
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $11,306,758
    Expenses
    $4,338,649
    Contributions
    $9,694,639
    Grants paid
    $2,508,591

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,488,635
    Expenses
    $3,461,622
    Assets (EOY)
    $39,214,030

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,932,492
    Expenses
    $4,578,357
    Assets (EOY)
    $32,465,220

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,599,155
    Expenses
    $3,371,998
    Assets (EOY)
    $27,432,024

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,152,000
    Expenses
    $2,930,449
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,007,863

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,613,904
    Expenses
    $3,728,425
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,099,943

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,003,270
    Expenses
    $2,245,592
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,757,789

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,348,458
    Expenses
    $2,053,471
    Assets (EOY)
    $17,432,020

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,953,915
    Expenses
    $3,809,535
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,527,006

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Listed by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.