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Colleen's Dream Foundation

Organization is dedicated to funding investigational scientific research with the primary goal of developing an accurate early detection test for ovarian cancer, no test currently exists.

$188k
Granted FY2017
9
Grants FY2017
7
Organizations funded FY2017
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100% of Colleen's Dream Foundation’s FY2020 grant dollars went to Yale University, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year Colleen's Dream Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $188k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

7
’17
2
’19
0
’20

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2017
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2017
$30,000
States reached, FY2017
8
Total assets, FY2017
$218k
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Health$491k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MA
IN
OH
CT
NE
MD
AZ
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Translational Genomics Research Institute Foundation$255,00032%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$50,0002n/a
Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska$28,0001n/a
Univ Hosp End Lc Hanna Jr$20,0001n/a
Indiana University School of Medicine$20,0001n/a
Johns Hopkins University$20,00010%
University of Chicago$20,00010%
University of Arizona$15,0001n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($3k), not named here.

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About Colleen's Dream Foundation

How much does Colleen's Dream Foundation give?
Colleen's Dream Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $188,000 in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does Colleen's Dream Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Health (100%).
Who are Colleen's Dream Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: The Translational Genomics Research Institute Foundation ($255k), Mass General Brigham Incorporated ($50k), Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska ($28k).
Where is Colleen's Dream Foundation based?
Colleen's Dream Foundation is based in AZ.

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 11 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2021) is on record and reports $5k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2017, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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