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The Domanica Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $137k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST ELIZABETH SHELTER | $30,000 |
| ACE SCHOLARSHIPS | $20,000 |
| THE LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| INTERFAITH SHELTER NETWORK | $12,000 |
| MOUNT SAINT VINCENT HOME | $10,000 |
| MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT | $10,000 |
| POTTER'S CLAY MINISTRIES INC | $10,000 |
| THIRD AVENUE CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION | $10,000 |
| ALPHA PROJECT FOR THE HOMELESS | $10,000 |
| SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION | $10,000 |
| SPECIAL DELIVERY SAN DIEGO | $9,000 |
| KITCHENS FOR GOOD | $8,000 |
| GRAND CENTRAL STATION | $6,500 |
| JAFCO CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER | $6,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC | $5,600 |
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 (FY17–25, $139k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +42% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- SESAINT ELIZABETH SHELTER CORPORATION9× · 2017–2025 · $240k · revenue +93%
- APALPHA PROJECT FOR THE HOMELESS9× · 2017–2025 · $131k · revenue +325%
- AFALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION9× · 2017–2025 · $124k · revenue +194%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $5k
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BOULDER WILDFIRE FUNDone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.
Feeding the homeless population in san d
The mission of crisis house is to respond immediately to stop the cycle of domestic violence and homelessness and to connect families and individuals to crucial resources that empower them to renew their lives.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
The mission is to end relationship and sexual violence by being a catalyst for caring communities and social justice. the vision is for all people to live full, free, expressive, and empowered lives in a safe, healthy, vibrant, and…
Consejo brings healing, health, and hope to communities through holistic, culturally, and linguistically competent behavioral health services and advocacy.
Urban angels is designed to nourish and provide food for the homeless and hungry of san dieo, ca. urban angels provides feeding services every wednesday in collboration with the salvation army and is the primary food provider for residents…
For the performance of charitable acts and service to the less fortunate.
Crf, in partnership with our clients and stakeholders, designs, delivers and evaluates innovative and exemplary behavioral health and social services in a manner that is both culturally and trauma competent, providing these services with…
The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…
St. vincent depaul middletown (svdm) was founded in 1980 by the sisters of mercy and the catholic diocese of norwich. svdm's mission is to provide food, shelter and basic human services to poor and homeless individuals regardless of race,…
Safe nest's mission is to provide comprehensive, collaborative, and innovative services for everyone affected by domestic and sexual violence while passionatley working to end this shared epidemic.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Youth Services and the most unlike its peers is Somerset County Mobile Food Bank. 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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 94 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 SAINT ELIZABETH SHELTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Special Delivery San Diego ↗
- Who funds ALPHA PROJECT FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds INDIVIDUAL & FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MOUNT ST VINCENT HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Third Avenue Charitable Organization ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds POTTER'S CLAY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRAYSON GRAND CENTRAL STATION ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds SOMERSET COUNTY MOBILE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ALBUQUERQUE HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds Texoma Family Shelter ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY SENIOR NUTRITION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Sangre de Cristo Volunteers for Community Inc ↗
- Who funds KITCHENS FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Mental Health Association of NM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SAN PASQUAL ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds METRO CARING ↗
- Who funds STARTING OVER MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HOPEWORKS ↗
- Who funds VIA HEART PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HOUSE CRISIS INTERVENTION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF NORTHERN NEW CASTLE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LOAVES & FISHES 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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The San Diego Foundation · Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank · Sempra Foundation · Lucky Duck Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Pnm Tnmp Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe 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 organization The Domanica 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.
- Family Promise of Northern New Castle County — 73% of income from government
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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