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Courts of Dreams Inc

Courts of dream's mission is to restore and maintain outdoor basketball courts for children in nyc neighborhoods, fostering healthy, safe communities while promoting the values of basketball, such as teamwork, mutual respect, and leadership.creating safer communities, fighting childhood obesity and providing communities and youth greater…

$55k
Granted FY2023
4
Grants FY2023
4
Organizations funded FY2023
75%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$6,500
Largest grant, FY2023
$38,180
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
2
Total assets, FY2023
$82k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 75% of the organizations Courts of Dreams Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 91% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20234$55k75%
FY20221$65kn/a
80% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2023.

Recreation & Sports$77kYouth Development$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Van Cortlandt Park Alliance$70,00029%
Garden of Dreams Foundation$5,00010%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($45k), not named here.

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How do I get to Courts of Dreams Inc?

Find your warmest path to Courts of Dreams 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.

About Courts of Dreams Inc

How much does Courts of Dreams Inc give?
Courts of Dreams Inc reported 4 grants totaling $54,680 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Courts of Dreams Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2023, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (64%), Youth Development (4%).
Who are Courts of Dreams Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2023: Van Cortlandt Park Alliance ($70k), Garden of Dreams Foundation ($5k).
Does Courts of Dreams Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Courts of Dreams Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is Courts of Dreams Inc based?
Courts of Dreams Inc is based in NY.

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 4 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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