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Dome Construction Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$356k
Granted FY2025still arriving
116
Grants FY2025still arriving
18
States reached
$47k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$566kHuman Services$487kHealth$388kHousing & Shelter$269kFood & Nutrition$227kYouth Development$185kAnimals$111kEmployment$105kOther$0
02FY2025 · 116 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k105 grants · $171k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $185k
$825
Median grant
18
States reached
$185k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Muttville$46,903
University of California Berkeley Foundation$25,200
Rooms of Hope$20,000
American Heart Association$17,577
AGC Construction Education Foundation$12,875
Rebuilding Together Peninsula$12,045
Chico CM Education Foundation$10,500
YMCA Urban Services$10,000
All Stars Project$10,000
Boys Girls Club of Silicon Valley$10,000
Social Good Fund$10,000
Cal Poly Construction Management Deptartment$9,261
San FranciscoMarin Food Bank$7,965
San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living$7,500
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area$7,239
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $351k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Youth Continuum: $260 → 12%Encircle Family And Youth Resource Center: $500 → 8%Bay Area Rescue Mission: $650 → 9%Shared Adventures: $1k → 13%Shoes That Fit: $100 → 14%Becoming Independent: $1k → 9%YWCA USA: $100 → 14%Becoming Independent: $500 → 9%YWCA Golden Gate Silicon Valley: $100 → 8%A Chance in Life: $1k → 17%Petaluma People Service Center: $150 → 8%Petaluma People Service Center: $100 → 8%Safe Alternative to Violent Environments: $30 → 10%Challenged Athlete: $1k → 11%World Food Program: $52 → 14%San Mateo Search and Rescue: $15 → 7%Multicultural Institute: $600 → 10%Make a Wish Greater Bay Area: $5k → 10%The Grateful Garment Project: $40 → 8%Make a Wish Greater Bay Area: $3k → 10%Larkin Street Youth Services: $500 → 10%Pacifica Resource Center: $100 → 7%YMCA of San Francisco: $285k → 10%YMCA of San Francisco: $20k → 10%YMCA of San Francisco: $15k → 10%YMCA of San Francisco: $15k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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MT
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
NM
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 119 repeat orgs$285k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

119 repeat relationships: 74 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

119
182

Total granted

$2.4M
$244k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+4%

Still filing today

60%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO
    4× · 2021–2024 · $335k · revenue +46%
  • RO
    ROOMS OF HOPE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $120k · revenue +180%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $119k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • CP
    Cal Poly Construction Management Department
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • CP
    Cal Poly Construction Management De
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • NE
    NAWIC Education Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $12k
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.

04Its field

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.

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The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
2
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
3
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
4
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
5
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
6
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
7
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
8
California Healthcare Foundation

Chcf is dedicated to advancing meaningful, measurable improvements in the way the health care delivery system provides care to the people of california, particularly those with low incomes and those whose needs are not well served by the…

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9
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
10
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
11
League of California Community Foundations

The league of california community foundations promotes and strengthens community foundations in california. through collaboration and shared learning among member foundations and building partnerships with private and public entities, we…

Philanthropy
12
Public Advocates Inc

For more than five decades, public advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing,…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Greater Bay Area; the most unlike its peers is Laurel Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

195 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 195 of the 344 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
189/195
Grantees still filing
104/195
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

A Home Away from Homelessness: $140,322 · OtherA Home Away from HomelessnessIMMACULATE CONCEPTION ACADEMY: $95,000 · OtherIMMACULATE CONCEPTION ACADEMYYMCA Urban Services: $80,940 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $80,100 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $66,460 · OtherMUTTVILLE: $65,621 · Other+138 more: $1,026,981 · Other+138 moreYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $335,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CH…+9 more: $14,650 · Human ServicesROOMS OF HOPE INC: $120,050 · HealthROOMS OF HOPE …American Heart Association Inc: $118,732 · HealthAmerican Heart…MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $18,500 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN…EDGEWOOD CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $18,200 · HealthFAMILY HOUSE INC: $16,288 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $15,545 · Health+10 more: $35,486 · Health+10 moreUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $85,200 · EducationUNIVERSITY…LEAP INC: $43,570 · EducationLEAP INCSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $39,250 · EducationSOCIAL GOO…ENVISIONEERS INC: $28,000 · EducationENVISIONEE…The Crayon Initiative: $26,000 · EducationThe Crayon…10000 DEGREES: $10,000 · Education+7 more: $25,910 · Education+7 moreCHICO CM EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $64,500 · Community ImprovementBUILDOUT CALIFORNIA: $7,500 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MINORITY CONTRACTORS INC: $5,000 · Community ImprovementMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $31,396 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $19,000 · PhilanthropyGOFUNDMEORG: $7,838 · PhilanthropyProject Management Advisors Foundation: $4,840 · PhilanthropyMAUI UNITED WAY: $2,890 · PhilanthropyHANDSON BAY AREA: $2,792 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,560 · Philanthropy+3 more: $3,221 · PhilanthropyJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $31,300 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO: $29,351 · Food & NutritionFOOD SHARE INC: $10,025 · Food & NutritionMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $2,950 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,555,424Human Services$349,650Health$342,801Education$257,930Community Improvement$77,000Philanthropy$74,537Food & Nutrition$73,626

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $335,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetROOMS OF HOPE INC: $120,050 over 5y, 14% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $118,732 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $85,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $66,460 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMUTTVILLE: $65,621 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHICO CM EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $64,500 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetTOYS FOR TOTS INC: $49,102 over 3y, 30% of budgetLEAP INC: $43,570 over 5y, 91% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $39,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $36,248 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRebuilding Together Peninsula: $33,565 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $31,396 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $31,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO: $29,351 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetENVISIONEERS INC: $28,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetThe Crayon Initiative: $26,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetASSOCIATED SCHOOLS OF CONSTRUCTION: $24,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $19,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAGC CONSTRUCTION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $18,875 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $18,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEDGEWOOD CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $18,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area: $17,264 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY HOUSE INC: $16,288 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAWIC Education Foundation Incorporated: $16,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF VENTURA COUNTY: $15,780 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $15,545 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS GARAGE: $15,050 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSHOES 4 KIDZ: $12,500 over 3y, 31% of budgetCALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION: $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHIJAS DEL CAMPO: $10,612 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $10,206 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD SHARE INC: $10,025 over 2y, 0.0% of budget10000 DEGREES: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCity Surf Project: $9,200 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCHILD'S VOICE SCHOOL: $8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $8,265 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChinese for Affirmative Action: $8,072 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG: $7,838 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOOKIES FOR KIDS CANCER A NEW JERSEY NON-PROFIT CORPORATION: $7,762 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER BAY AREA: $7,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBUILDOUT CALIFORNIA: $7,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCYPRESS MANDELA TRAINING CENTER: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FAMILY GIVING TREE: $5,160 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN IN CONSTRUCTION OPERATIONS: $5,120 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetOPERATION HELP A HERO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MINORITY CONTRACTORS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetProject Management Advisors Foundation: $4,840 over 2y, 1.9% of budget
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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
  • Who funds ROOMS OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds MUTTVILLE ↗
  • Who funds CHICO CM EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TOYS FOR TOTS INC ↗
  • Who funds LEAP INC ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Rebuilding Together Peninsula ↗
  • Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO ↗
  • Who funds ENVISIONEERS INC ↗
  • Who funds The Crayon Initiative ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATED SCHOOLS OF CONSTRUCTION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
  • Who funds AGC CONSTRUCTION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds EDGEWOOD CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES ↗
  • Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY HOUSE INC ↗

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.

East Bay Community Fo…The San Francisco Fou…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Marin Community Found…Silicon Valley Commun…Jewish Community Fede…United Way of the Bay…McNabb FoundationThe Sobrato Family Fo…The David and Lucile …The Intuit FoundationTipping Point Communi…
East Bay Community FoundationCA34.5× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · United Way of the Bay Area · McNabb Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · Tipping Point Community

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dome Construction Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dome Construction Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Youth Continuum Inc: 76% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
55report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Dome Construction Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Dome Construction Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 344 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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