How much did BUILDING DREAMS FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of BUILDING DREAMS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

—

2019

baseballkids

2020

equipment

2021

equipmentmanteca

2022

little leaguemantecavalley

2023

childvalley

2024

child

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k12 grants · $42k
$10k–50k10 grants · $163k

$8,800

Median grant

States reached

$2.3M

Total assets

Largest grants

BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MANTECALATHROP$22,500
INNER CITY ACTION$20,795
HOPE MINISTRIES$20,000
CALVARY COMMUNITY CHURCH$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC$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

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$913k · 30 repeat orgs$79k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +54% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$913k

$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%

+54%

Still filing today

43%

21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterArts & CultureEducationCivil RightsOther

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

HM
HOPE MINISTRIES
8× · 2017–2024 · $98k · revenue +73% · 93% of their budget
HO
HAVEN OF PEACE
8× · 2017–2024 · $71k · revenue +175%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC
4× · 2021–2024 · $61k · revenue +13%

Funded once

WR
WESTON RANCH HIGH SCHOOL
one grant, 2020 · $5k
MF
MUSD FUTURE TEACHERS PATHWAY
one grant, 2018 · $4k
FO
FRIENDS OF EAST UNION MEMEORIAL CEMETARY
one grant, 2023 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Family Promise of San Joaquin County

Provide temporary housing to homeless families with children

Human Services

Haven of Hope Inc

Domestic violence shelter

Human Services

Children's Village Inc

Childrens Village was established as a refuge for dependent, destitute children in need of service and care

Human Services

Valley Haven Inc

To protect guide and nurture abused and neglected children removed from their homes by court order

Human Services

The Hope Center Inc

The Hope Center is a faith-based organization designed to assist low income individuals and families who live in Bakersfield, California to move towards wholeness, physically, emotionally and spiritually by distributing food, clothing and…

Human Services

Cover the Homeless Ministry

This organization provides clothing, food, and medical services to low income citizens in various areas of southern california and reunite them with family

Human Services

Agape House Inc

Religious based provision of housing, education, and support for men and women coming from incarceration

Crime & Legal

Come to Him Ministries

To help the hungry, homeless, and the destitute receive a second chance in life by providing food, clothing, and shelter and transition them into a christ centered lifestyle.

Health

Victory Mission

Provide food and shelter to homeless men, women, veterans and recently released prisoners Operating and maintaining a Rescue Mission in Salinas CA

Human Services

Sonshine Children Center Inc

Serving families with foster and adoptive children.

Human Services

Change Is Possible (Chips) Inc

Provide shelter and court advocacy for victims of domestic violence.

Unclassified

Victory Center Ministries Inc

Victory Center Ministries is dedicated to providing services for families, men, and women with children in need. Most importantly, a caring and supportive environment is provided where lives are changed and individuals regain their…

Religion

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.

Your grantees are a median of 21 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) — 17% of your grantees by number, and just 15% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/24

the rest of the field

13%

339/2,547

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.

05the grantee network

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

19/20

Grantees still filing

12/20

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$619,547Human Services$142,884Philanthropy$97,663Education$61,000Religion$30,795Housing & Shelter$23,000Civil Rights$17,206

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.

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.

The Antone and Marie Raymus FoundationCA31.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Antone and Marie Raymus Foundation · The Cortopassi Family Foundation · Albert & Rina Brocchini Family · Rosi Cerri Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 organisation 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HOPE MINISTRIES.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing; revenue up +73% since.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 943488701 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on HOPE MINISTRIES, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 93% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Building Dreams Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Building Dreams Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BUILDING DREAMS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Building Dreams Foundation?

More from the funding graph

BUILDING DREAMS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Building Dreams Foundation?

More from the funding graph