How much does The Domanica Foundation give?

The Domanica Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $220,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 46 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Domanica Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (32%), Education (18%), Food & Nutrition (16%).

Who are The Domanica Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Saint Elizabeth Shelter Corporation ($240k), Special Delivery San Diego ($133k), Alpha Project for the Homeless ($131k).

Does The Domanica Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Domanica Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Domanica Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego, The San Diego Foundation, Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank.

Where is The Domanica Foundation based?

The Domanica Foundation is based in CO.

The Domanica Foundation

The Domanica Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Domanica Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$220k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$30k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$701kEducation$396kFood & Nutrition$344kHuman Services$226kHealth$163kReligion$73kCommunity Improvement$69kYouth Development$68kOther$0

02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k21 grants · $83k
$10k–50k10 grants · $137k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$9.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ST ELIZABETH SHELTER	$30,000
ACE SCHOLARSHIPS	$20,000
THE LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION	$15,000
INTERFAITH SHELTER NETWORK	$12,000
SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION	$10,000
MOUNT SAINT VINCENT HOME	$10,000
THIRD AVENUE CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION	$10,000
ALPHA PROJECT FOR THE HOMELESS	$10,000
MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT	$10,000
POTTER'S CLAY MINISTRIES INC	$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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.1M · 62 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +36% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.1M

$62k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%

+36%

Still filing today

66%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther

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

SE
SAINT ELIZABETH SHELTER CORPORATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $240k · revenue +93%
AP
ALPHA PROJECT FOR THE HOMELESS
9× · 2017–2025 · $131k · revenue +325%
AF
ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $124k · revenue +194%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2017 · $10k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2022 · $5k
BA
BALLET ARIZONAgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +76%

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.

The San Francisco Particular Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul

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.

Human Services

New Door Opportunities

Feeding the homeless population in san d

Food & Nutrition

Crisis House

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.

Human Services

Feeding San Diego

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,…

Food & Nutrition

Center for Community Solutions

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…

Health

Consejo Counseling & Referral Service

Consejo brings healing, health, and hope to communities through holistic, culturally, and linguistically competent behavioral health services and advocacy.

Health

Urban Angels Co Scott Lutwak

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…

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St Francis Center

For the performance of charitable acts and service to the less fortunate.

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Community Research Foundation Inc

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…

Unclassified

Interval House

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…

Human Services

St Vincent Depaul Middletown

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,…

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Safe Nesttemporary Assistance for

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.

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Youth Services; 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.

04the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 94 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

53/53

Grantees still filing

42/53

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$980,150Education$291,000Housing & Shelter$278,500Food & Nutrition$204,000Human Services$177,850Health$133,600Philanthropy$107,250

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.

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.

Jewish Community Foundation of San DiegoCA19.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Domanica Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Domanica Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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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