· Private foundation
Building Dreams Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| JACKSON 3 FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WIDE HORIZONS | $10,000 |
| CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION COUNCIL | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Homeless
To mobilize christians to transform living and the community in the name of christ.
To operate and maintain a rescue mission at Salinas, California provide Job training
Serve the least, the last and lost in the Inland Empire
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.
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 assistance in emergency situations.
To facilitate the transition of homeless, at risk youth and the poor to establish stable grounds and become independent.
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…
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.
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…
How this is measured
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 LIONS PROJECT FOR CANINE COMPANIONS ↗
- Who funds WITHOUT PERMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds MANTECA LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds Agape Villages Inc ↗
- Who funds CLOSE UP FOUNDATION ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Building Dreams Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Building Dreams Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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