Recipient of federal assistance · BAKERSFIELD, CA

COUNTY OF KERN

COUNTY OF KERN received $6.6M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026, on 5 actions. It has no federal contracts in the loaded years. Since FY2021: $273.4M. Its largest awarding agency was Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development ($6.6M).

Assistance · FY2026
$6.6M
New awards
3
Actions
5
Since FY2021
$273.4M
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Location
BAKERSFIELD, CA
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Federal grants & assistance received

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 234.3MFY2021
  2. 16MFY2022
  3. 10.4MFY2023
  4. 6.7MFY2024
  5. -579.3KFY2025
  6. 6.6MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$6.6M100%

Top programs · Awarding agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Top programs

  1. 14.218 · Community Development Block Grants/Entitlement Grants$4.4M68%
  2. 14.239 · Home Investment Partnerships Program$1.7M26%
  3. 14.231 · Emergency Solutions Grant Program$398.7K6.1%

Awarding agencies

  1. Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development$6.6M100%
    Department of Housing and Urban Development

Largest awards

  1. PURPOSE: THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT (CDBG) PROGRAM PROVIDES ANNUAL GRANTS ON A FORMULA BASIS TO STATES, CITIES, AND COUNTIES TO…$4.4M
    14.218 · Community Development Block Grants/Entitlement Grants· Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development· Formula grant· Dec 15, 2025 – Dec 15, 2025· B-25-UC-06-0502
  2. PURPOSE: THE HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIPS PROGRAM (HOME) PROVIDES NEED-BASED FORMULA GRANTS TO STATES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS THAT ARE USED…$1.7M
    14.239 · Home Investment Partnerships Program· Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development· Formula grant· Dec 15, 2025 – Dec 15, 2025· M25-UC060517
  3. PURPOSE: THE EMERGENCY SOLUTIONS GRANT (ESG) AUTHORIZES THE DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT (HUD) TO MAKE GRANTS TO STATES…$398.7K
    14.231 · Emergency Solutions Grant Program· Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development· Formula grant· Dec 15, 2025 – Dec 15, 2025· E-25-UC-06-0502

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

  • Sub-grants: $65.6K (1 subaward)

1 sub-recipient

  1. THE OPEN DOOR NETWORK$65.6K100%
    BAKERSFIELD, CA · 1 subaward

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-grants: $1.1M (2 subawards)

1 prime

  1. OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES$1.1M100%
    MATHER, CA · 2 subawards

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $2.3M received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $24.2M received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $49.3M received
  • FY2024: $5.5M paid out · $1.5M received
  • FY2026: $65.6K paid out · $1.1M received

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2021–FY2026.