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Golden Dome Foundation Inc

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.

$12M
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$11M
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$36MRecreation & Sports$4.1MHealth$2.7MHuman Services$2.1MAnimals$1.7MReligion$1.0MHousing & Shelter$125kPublic Safety & Disaster$51kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $275k
  • $250k+2 grants · $12M
$180,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$89M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MERIDIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC$10,649,285
OTHER CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS$1,076,943
ALLAIRE COMMUNITY FARM$180,000
OAK HILL ACADEMY$95,000
BAYSHORE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY21–25, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Allaire Community Farm: $1.7M → 6%ALLAIRE COMMUNITY FARM: $180k → 6%ALLAIRE COMMUNITY FARM: $25k → 6%ALLAIRE COMMUNITY FARM: $17k → 6%Allaire Community Farm: $10k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 14% of Golden Dome Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 88% of the giving stays in NJ; read by stated purpose it is 83% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Golden Dome Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$42M · 18 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
20

Total granted

$42M
$3.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-2%
+18%

Still filing today

28%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHealthHuman ServicesEducationEmploymentOther

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

  • MH
    MERIDIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $21M
  • MH
    Meriden Health Foundation
    4× · 2019–2022 · $11M
  • OC
    OTHER CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $2.1M

Funded once

  • UO
    Univ of Penn School of Veterinary M
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M
  • TH
    Trinity Hallgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $750k · revenue +68%
  • PF
    Parker Family Health Center Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -55%

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.

1
Father Johns Animal House

A no-kill shelter in sussex county, nj that provides necessary shelter, food, medical care, socialization and companionship for homeless dogs and cats until they are adopted.

Human Services
2
Little Silver Animal Hospital Foundation for Animals Inc

The foundation's primary purpose is to promote the general welfare of domestic animals.

3
Wag On Inn Rescue

A group of dedicated volunteers, mostly located in Monmouth County, NJ. We are focused on rehoming dogs and cats of all ages and sizes. ur dogs come from shelters in the local area and the south, owner surrenders in the area, and from…

Animals
4
Petpals of Southern New Jersey Inc

To provide assistancve in caring for the companion animals of people living with terminal or chronic illnesses as well as financially needy senior citizens.

Community Improvement
5
Grateful Paws

Grateful Paws NJ is a non-profit organization devoted to rescuing stray and abandoned animals throughout New Jersey, providing medical care and helping them to find new homes.

Animals
6
Hunterdon Humane Animal Shelter Inc
Animals
7
Dutchess County Spca Inc

Dutchess County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Inc., is a nonprofit organization that was established to prevent cruelty to animals. The mission of the Dutchess County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,…

Animals
8
Mulligan Animal Rescue Inc

Rescue animals that would not otherwise be given a chance

Animals
9
Happy Tails Dog Rescue Inc

The Organization's mission is to rescue dogs from high-kill animal shelters and place them in loving forever homes. All dogs rescued are given necessary medical care prior to adoption, including required vaccinations. Dogs are placed in…

Animals
10
Matchdog Rescue

Matchdog rescue is an all volunteer dog rescue organization. we rescue dogs from shelters and place thewm in forever homes.

Animals
11
Newark Community Healthy Pet Clinic Inc

The organizaiton provides compassionate, high quality veterinary preventative care visits to low income clients' dogs and cats. the staff consists of veterinarians, veterinary technicians, and client care reprsentatives who volunteer their…

Animals
12
Dollys Legacy Animal Rescue

Foster-based animal rescue that rescues homeless and abandoned animals, providing them with veterinary care including specialized care, heartworm treatment, surgery, severe illness treatment & hospitalization, then placing them for…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Notre Dame du Lac. 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 27 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%5%<5yr13%10%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr19%20%20–35yr17%20%35–55yr12%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%4%<5yr13%0%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr19%9%20–35yr17%44%35–55yr12%20%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/21
the rest of the field
10%
789/7,941

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

17 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MERIDIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $21,022,856 · OtherMERIDIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION INCMeriden Health Foundation — $11,331,144 · OtherMeriden Health FoundationOTHER CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS — $2,112,599 · Other+24 more — $5,837,367 · Other+24 moreUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $4,103,650 · EducationUniversit…+1 more — $2,000 · EducationTHE SEEING EYE INC — $2,048,500 · Human ServicesTHE SEEIN…ALLAIRE COMMUNITY FARM A NJ NONPROFIT CO — $1,897,000 · Human ServicesALLAIRE C…Special Needs Dobermans Inc — $475,000 · AnimalsSAVE US PETS FOUNDATION INC — $101,036 · Animals+3 more — $22,000 · AnimalsParker Family Health Center Inc — $500,000 · HealthBREAST INTENTIONS INC — $25,000 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $25,000 · HealthNO LIMITS CAFE — $30,000 · Employment
Other$40,303,966Education$4,105,650Human Services$3,945,500Animals$598,036Health$550,000Employment$30,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $4,103,650 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC — $2,048,500 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetALLAIRE COMMUNITY FARM A NJ NONPROFIT CO — $1,897,000 over 5y, 53% of budgetOak Hill Academy — $1,106,850 over 5y, 9.5% of budgetTrinity Hall — $750,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetParker Family Health Center Inc — $500,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetSpecial Needs Dobermans Inc — $475,000 over 6y, 54% of budgetSAVE US PETS FOUNDATION INC — $101,036 over 3y, 42% of budgetHOLMDEL FIRST AID SQUAD — $51,114 over 1y, 19% of budgetNO LIMITS CAFE — $30,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBREAST INTENTIONS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetTHE DRUMTHWACKET FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARTY'S PLACE SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDOBERMAN RESCUE UNLIMITED INC — $7,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMONMOUTH COUNTY SPCA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOLMDEL LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
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 University of Notre Dame du Lac
  • Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC
  • Who funds ALLAIRE COMMUNITY FARM A NJ NONPROFIT CO
  • Who funds Oak Hill Academy
  • Who funds Trinity Hall
  • Who funds Parker Family Health Center Inc
  • Who funds Special Needs Dobermans Inc
  • Who funds SAVE US PETS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds HOLMDEL FIRST AID SQUAD
  • Who funds NO LIMITS CAFE
  • Who funds BREAST INTENTIONS INC
  • Who funds THE DRUMTHWACKET FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC
  • Who funds MARTY'S PLACE SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY
  • Who funds DOBERMAN RESCUE UNLIMITED INC
  • Who funds MONMOUTH COUNTY SPCA
  • Who funds HOLMDEL LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC

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.

Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ18.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Oceanfirst Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Golden Dome Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 80%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    8get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Golden Dome Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Golden Dome Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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