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Dream Partnership

The mission of the d.r.e.a.m.

$206k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$63k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.5M
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $81k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $122k
$19,726
Median grant
1
States reached
$284k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PENN STATE UNIVERSITY (HARRISBURG)$63,416
SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY$58,346
MESSIAH UNIVERSITY$25,000
GWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY$19,726
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY$15,240
ARCADIA UNIVERSITY$11,482
WESTMORELAND COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 66% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY: $60k → 6%GWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY: $20k → 7%MESSIAH UNIVERSITY: $25k → 8%SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY: $58k → 9%WESTMORELAND COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $10k → 10%DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY: $45k → 11%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY (LEHIGH VALLEY): $20k → 11%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY (HARRISBURG): $82k → 12%MERCYHURST UNIVERSITY: $25k → 15%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY (UNIVERSITY PARK): $45k → 16%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $60k → 22%WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY: $25k → 6%GWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY: $13k → 7%MESSIAH UNIVERSITY: $10k → 8%SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY: $44k → 9%WESTMORELAND COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $9k → 10%DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY: $30k → 11%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY (LEHIGH VALLEY): $10k → 11%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY (HARRISBURG): $69k → 12%MERCYHURST UNVERSITY: $22k → 15%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY (UNIVERSITY PARK): $35k → 16%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $55k → 22%GWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY: $9k → 7%SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY: $43k → 9%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY (HARRISBURG): $64k → 12%MERCYHURST UNIVERSITY: $13k → 15%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY (UNIVERSITY PARK): $20k → 16%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $48k → 22%ARCADIA UNIVERSITY: $42k → 7%SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY: $30k → 9%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY (HARRISBURG): $63k → 12%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $16k → 22%ARCADIA UNIVERSITY: $34k → 7%SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY: $26k → 9%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY (HARRISBURG): $45k → 12%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 22%ARCADIA UNIVERSITY: $11k → 7%SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY: $25k → 9%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY (HARRISBURG): $34k → 12%ARCADIA UNIVERSITY: $7k → 7%SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY: $5k → 9%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY (HARRISBURG): $26k → 12%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $20k → 22%SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY: $5k → 9%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY (HARRISBURG): $25k → 12%SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $17k → 22%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY (HARRISBURG): $18k → 12%SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $14k → 22%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 11 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
2

Total granted

$1.4M
$80k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+10%

Still filing today

91%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • SR
    SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $241k · revenue +24%
  • TU
    Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    5× · 2019–2025 · $139k · revenue +1%
  • AU
    ARCADIA UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2019–2025 · $97k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • TU
    TEMPLE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $60k
  • DU
    DREXEL UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +10%
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.

1
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
2
Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.

Education
3
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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4
Misericordia University

Misericordia university, a catholic liberal arts institution established in the tradition of the sisters of mercy, fosters intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and respect for persons in an environment where all are welcome.values…

Education
5
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
6
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
7
Georgian Court University

Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.

Education
8
St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

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9
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
10
La Roche University

La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.

Education
11
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
12
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit; the most unlike its peers is Drexel University. 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

11 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. 11 of the 13 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)
11/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $241,112 · EducationSLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $138,863 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Educatio…ARCADIA UNIVERSITY: $96,911 · EducationARCADIA UNIVERSITYWEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $85,000 · EducationWEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $76,225 · EducationDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRITMERCYHURST UNIVERSITY: $59,462 · EducationMERCYHURST UNIVERSITYGWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY: $42,112 · EducationMESSIAH UNIVERSITY: $35,000 · EducationSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $30,872 · Education+2 more: $38,850 · EducationPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $556,421 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYTEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $60,000 · OtherTEMPLE UNIVERSITY
Education$844,407Other$616,421

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $241,112 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $138,863 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetARCADIA UNIVERSITY: $96,911 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $76,225 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMERCYHURST UNIVERSITY: $59,462 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY: $42,112 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMESSIAH UNIVERSITY: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $30,872 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMORELAND COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $18,850 over 2y, 0.5% of 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.

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.

The Pittsburgh Founda…Verizon FoundationThe Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Dream Partnership?

    Find your warmest path to Dream Partnership 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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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