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Dreamcatcher Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$72kInternational$34kFood & Nutrition$17kPublic Safety & Disaster$14kHuman Services$7kCrime & Legal$7kReligion$5kHousing & Shelter$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED: $1k → 14%AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 9%NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
WY
NJ
CT
VA
MD
SC
DC
OK
GA
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed the Children Inc; 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 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. 22 of the 29 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
19/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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
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.

Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA10.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Dreamcatcher Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dreamcatcher Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% 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, 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.

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 29 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home