Tennessee · Public charity
Dreambuilders Foundation Inc
The dreambuilders foundation is a non profit organization dedciated to helping financially, physically or mentally challenged youth to achieve their dreams by providing support and financial assistance to secure the equipment and opportunity needed to achieve these goals.
- $981k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 47
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 76%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $867k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $107,505
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 42
- FY2020 to FY2024
- Total assets, FY2025
- $559k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 76% of the organizations Dreambuilders Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 61% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $339k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 47 | $867k | 68% |
| FY2024 | 42 | $560k | 76% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $419k | 85% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $623k | 81% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $407k | 76% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $762k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Tarrant County Inc | $214,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Operation Warm Inc | $121,544 | 3 | 0% |
| Pmr Charity | $75,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank | $67,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Bgc of Great Dallas | $65,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bgc of Collin County | $35,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater San Diego | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Northern Children's Services | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada | $16,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Tarrant County Inc | $214,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Operation Warm Inc | $121,544 | 3 | 0% |
| Pmr Charity | $75,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank | $67,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Bgc of Great Dallas | $65,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bgc of Collin County | $35,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater San Diego | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Northern Children's Services | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada | $16,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Coats for Kids-Cleveland | $15,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Forward Together New Orleans | $12,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Every Meal | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Backpack Program of Laurel County | $11,200 | 1 | n/a |
| The Elephant in the Room Inc | $11,100 | 1 | 14% |
| Under 21 | $11,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Acadiana Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 148 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dreambuilders Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Dreambuilders Foundation Inc
- How much does Dreambuilders Foundation Inc give?
- Dreambuilders Foundation Inc reported 47 itemized grants totaling $867,490, out of $981,412 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 42 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Dreambuilders Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (33%), International (22%), Youth Development (22%).
- Who are Dreambuilders Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Tarrant County Inc ($214k), Operation Warm Inc ($122k), Pmr Charity ($75k).
- Does Dreambuilders Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 76% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dreambuilders Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation, Enterprise Holdings Foundation.
- Where is Dreambuilders Foundation Inc based?
- Dreambuilders Foundation Inc is based in TN.
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