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Dream Incubator

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.

$26k
Granted FY2025still arriving
46
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it funds
0169% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Education$31kCommunity Improvement$9kHuman Services$7kPublic Benefit$1kArts & Culture$993Other$0
02FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
1
States reached
$47k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Industrial Bank$6,100
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$760
Individual grant recipient$700
Individual grant recipient$600
DC Govt for recipients$550
Individual grant recipient$500
Spice Suite$500
Individual grant recipient$500
Individual grant recipient$500
Individual grant recipient$500
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Industrial Bank: $6k → 14%Awawu Umar: $4k → 14%Harold Anderson: $3k → 14%Mahmoud Bassit: $2k → 14%Chiquita Smith: $2k → 14%Marvin Gaines: $1k → 14%BLU MURPHY: $1k → 14%Brian Williams: $1k → 14%Danielle Butler: $1k → 14%Kia Williams: $1k → 14%Noe lopez Veil: $1k → 14%Bernard Anderson: $1k → 14%Dominique Ladson: $1k → 14%Micheal TuTu: $1k → 14%Rebecca Crouch: $1k → 14%Tiaa Rutherford: $1k → 14%Coretta Johnson: $1k → 14%Lakisha Davis: $1k → 14%Kennedy Neal: $1k → 14%Wilver Velazquez: $760 → 14%Jourdan Atkinson: $700 → 14%Tinea Porter: $600 → 14%Robert Stanley: $600 → 14%DC Govt for recipients: $550 → 14%Lynette Jefferies: $500 → 14%Michelle Brown: $500 → 14%monica smith: $500 → 14%Tyler Mabry: $500 → 14%Michelle Tucker: $500 → 14%Spice Suite: $500 → 14%New Vintage By Sam: $500 → 14%Valerie Antoine: $500 → 14%Olas Grant: $500 → 14%Mohammed Jalloh: $500 → 14%Malachi Cunningham: $500 → 14%Aneka Carter: $500 → 14%Sharlene Samuel: $500 → 14%Rochelle Lewis: $500 → 14%Sharmica Drayton: $500 → 14%Shereen George: $500 → 14%Valerie Grant: $500 → 14%Tania Blassingame: $500 → 14%Courtney S Hall: $500 → 14%Tahneezia Hammond: $500 → 14%Derrel Todd: $500 → 14%Lorna Hunt: $500 → 14%Robyn Enyiema: $500 → 14%Alexis Brown: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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 field
04the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2023–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2023 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 123 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Industrial Bank: $6,100 · OtherIndustrial BankIndividual grant recipient: $4,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $3,200 · Other+120 more: $54,235 · Other+120 more
Other$67,535

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budget
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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Dream Incubator?

Find your warmest path to Dream Incubator 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 123 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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