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Building Dreams Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $163k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MANTECALATHROP | $22,500 |
| INNER CITY ACTION | $20,795 |
| CALVARY COMMUNITY CHURCH | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC | $20,000 |
| HOPE MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN | $15,000 |
| WITHOUT PERMISSION | $14,500 |
| CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| WIDE HORIZONS | $10,000 |
| JACKSON 3 FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HAVEN OF PEACE | $8,800 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $8,000 |
| SIERRA HIGH SCHOOL | $7,000 |
| GREAT VALLEY BOOKFEST | $5,000 |
| CANINE COMPANIONS | $3,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $122k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- HMHOPE MINISTRIES8× · 2017–2024 · $98k · revenue +73% · 93% of their budget
- HOHAVEN OF PEACE8× · 2017–2024 · $71k · revenue +79%
- UOUniversity of the Pacific4× · 2021–2024 · $61k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- WRWESTON RANCH HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $5k
- MFMUSD FUTURE TEACHERS PATHWAYone grant, 2018 · $4k
- FOFRIENDS OF EAST UNION MEMEORIAL CEMETARYone grant, 2023 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Homeless
To operate and maintain a rescue mission at Salinas, California provide Job training
To mobilize christians to transform living and the community in the name of christ.
Serve the least, the last and lost in the Inland Empire
To facilitate the transition of homeless, at risk youth and the poor to establish stable grounds and become independent.
Providing an economic and spiritual bridge for homeless/disadvantaged people striving to regain the basics of life and restoring hope in themselves and their future by achieving economic stability so that they are able to rejoin the…
to provide services to homeless and low income men and women and children in Barstow, California area. Servicies include emergency housing, food, clothing and utilities assistance, Also assist in job training.
To provide assistance in emergency situations.
Inspiring hope and transforming lives since 1986, nvcss has provided essential services and support to individuals and families throughout northern california. annually, the organization serves more than 84,500 people across six counties…
Catholic charities creates access to opportunities for self-sufficiency by providing innovative and compassionate services to people of all backgrounds, beliefs, and cultures.
My Father's House is a transitional living home that men live in community with others striving for success. These men move to better places in our dorm area to individual rooms as they accomplish their goals. Although we do not have a…
Hands of Hope works to enhance the quality of life in the Yuba-Sutter area by: Providing core support services to the homeless; Reintegrating the homeless within our community; Engaging the community to respond to the challenge of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gospel Center Rescue Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hope Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 56 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MANTECA ↗
- Who funds HAVEN OF PEACE ↗
- Who funds University of the Pacific ↗
- Who funds GIVE EVERY CHILD A CHANCE ↗
- Who funds THOMAS TOY COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds GOSPEL CENTER RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Wide Horizons Inc ↗
- Who funds MANTECA RIGHT TO LIFE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR DISABILITIES ↗
- Who funds WITHOUT PERMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds LIONS PROJECT FOR CANINE COMPANIONS ↗
- Who funds MANTECA LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds Agape Villages Inc ↗
- Who funds CLOSE UP FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Antone and Marie Raymus Foundation · Albert & Rina Brocchini Family Foundation · The Cortopassi Family Foundation · Rosi Cerri Foundation Inc · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Network for Good · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Building Dreams Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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