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Dreamcatcher Foundation

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.

$19k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$72kInternational$34kFood & Nutrition$17kPublic Safety & Disaster$14kHuman Services$7kCrime & Legal$7kReligion$5kHousing & Shelter$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$474k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PORTER-GAUD FOUNDATION$10,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED$1,200
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NEW JERSEY INC$1,000
NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION$1,000
LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC$1,000
ONE-EIGHTY PLACE$1,000
WILLIAM J BRENNAN JR CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC$1,000
UNITED STATES ASSOCIATION FOR UNHCR$1,000
LOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF$500
FEED THE CHILDREN INC$500
SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC$500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SUSTAINABLE HARVEST INTERNATIONAL: $3k → 16%ICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC: $500 → 13%CITY HARVEST INC: $500 → 17%CITY HARVEST INC: $1k → 20%FEED THE CHILDREN INC: $500 → 16%PORTER-GAUD FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%KIND INC: $3k → 14%SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC: $3k → 9%CHURCH OF ST SIMON-BY-THE-SEA: $4k → 11%COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE I: $3k → 13%COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NEW JERSEY INC: $2k → 10%SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $510 → 6%THE SALVATION ARMY: $1k → 12%SUSTAINABLE HARVEST INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 16%PORTER-GAUD FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%KIND INC: $1k → 14%SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC: $2k → 9%COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE I: $1k → 13%COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NEW JERSEY INC: $1k → 10%THE SALVATION ARMY: $1k → 12%UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $3k → 17%PORTER-GAUD FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%UNITED STATES ASSOCIATION FOR UNHCR: $1k → 14%SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC: $2k → 9%COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NEW JERSEY INC: $1k → 10%THE SALVATION ARMY: $1k → 12%UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1k → 17%PORTER-GAUD FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%KIND INC: $1k → 14%SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC: $1k → 9%UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1k → 17%PORTER-GAUD FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC: $1k → 9%PORTER-GAUD FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%WILLIAM J BRENNAN JR CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $1k → 17%PORTER-GAUD FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%WILLIAM J BRENNAN JR CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $1k → 17%LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $3k → 12%LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $1k → 12%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED: $5k → 14%AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 9%HISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $1k → 17%AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $4k → 9%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED: $5k → 14%AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 9%NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $1k → 14%AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 9%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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NY
MA
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VA
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DC
OK
GA

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$154k · 20 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
9

Total granted

$154k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+160%

Still filing today

90%
44%

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

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalEnvironmentFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementPublic Safety & DisasterCrime & LegalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • PF
    PORTER-GAUD FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +223%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $14k · revenue ×11
  • AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $11k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • CO
    CHURCH OF ST SIMON-BY-THE-SEA
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
  • SS
    SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $510 · revenue +160%
  • MC
    MERCY CORPS
    one grant, 2021 · $500

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
2
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
3
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International
4
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
5
Counterpart International Inc

For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…

International
6
Food for the Hungry Inc

Food for the hungry is a christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that has designed, developed and delivered solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish. (continued on…

International
7
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
8
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
9
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
10
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
11
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
12
Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed the Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Americares Foundation Inc. 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

22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
19/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PORTER-GAUD FOUNDATION — $69,553 · OtherPORTER-GAUD FOUNDATIONLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC — $4,000 · OtherCHURCH OF ST SIMON-BY-THE-SEA — $4,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY — $3,500 · Other+10 more — $8,710 · Other+10 moreWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $13,700 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $11,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INCSave The Children Federation Inc — $9,500 · InternationalSave The Children Federation IncUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $5,500 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $3,700 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND R…+2 more — $2,600 · International+2 moreCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc — $6,000 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INC — $2,500 · Food & NutritionKIND INC — $6,500 · Crime & LegalSustainable Harvest International — $3,500 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $1,100 · Environment+1 more — $100 · EnvironmentLOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF — $3,000 · Human ServicesOne-Eighty Place — $2,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$89,763International$46,000Food & Nutrition$8,500Crime & Legal$6,500Environment$4,700Human Services$3,000Housing & Shelter$2,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPORTER-GAUD FOUNDATION — $69,553 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $13,700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $9,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetKIND INC — $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc — $6,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $3,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSustainable Harvest International — $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF — $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOne-Eighty Place — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC — $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY — $510 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA10.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Dreamcatcher Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc1% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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