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Dreamcatcher Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$175k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
71
Grants FY2025
67
Organizations funded FY2024
70%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,200
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
55 to 67
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
16
Total assets, FY2025
$2.9M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 70% of the organizations Dreamcatcher Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 51% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving65$175k48%
FY202467$195k70%
FY202358$175k53%
FY202255$163k56%
FY202157$159kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$334kHealth$133kRecreation & Sports$61kCommunity Improvement$58kHuman Services$48kReligion$40kAnimals$35kArts & Culture$23kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Lawrence University$91,00050%
Culinary Institute of America$58,89040%
Islamorada Foundation Inc$38,46738%
Upper Keys Foundation Inc$28,00054%
Bonefish & Tarpon Trust Inc$27,23431%
Roswell Park Alliance Foundation$18,00040%
Voices for Florida Keys Children Inc$15,65052%
D'Youville University$12,00020%
The Traveling School$12,00022%
N a R D I N Academy$11,5003n/a
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All grantees of Dreamcatcher Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Lawrence University$91,00050%
Culinary Institute of America$58,89040%
Islamorada Foundation Inc$38,46738%
Upper Keys Foundation Inc$28,00054%
Bonefish & Tarpon Trust Inc$27,23431%
Roswell Park Alliance Foundation$18,00040%
Voices for Florida Keys Children Inc$15,65052%
D'Youville University$12,00020%
The Traveling School$12,00022%
N a R D I N Academy$11,5003n/a
Buffalo Center For Health EquityInc$10,83019%
St Francis High School$10,5003n/a
Upper Keys Youth Lacrosse League Inc$10,5002n/a
Nichols School of Buffalo$10,35020%
Niagara University$10,00020%
St Adalberts Response to Lovecenter Inc$10,0001n/a
Boys & Girls Clubs of Buffalo Inc$10,00010%
One8fifty Inc$9,5004n/a
Casey Powell World Lacrosse Foundation Inc$9,000226%
Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute Inc$8,96710%
Massachusetts Avenue Project Inc$8,45011%
Elite Dance of the Keys Inc$7,4003n/a
Rmhc of Western New York Inc$7,36320%
Western New York United Against Drug & Alcohol Abuse Inc$7,21420%
Kids Escaping Drugs Inc$6,78250%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tampa Bay Inc$6,70010%
UPward Design for Life Corporation$6,20023%
The Park School of Buffalo$6,00020%
University of Rochester$6,00020%
United States Fund for Unicef$5,00010%
Transgender Law Center$5,00010%
Children's Museum of Nw Arkansas$5,00010%
Hamburg Alumni Foundation$4,00032%
True Bethel Baptist Church$3,2502n/a
Western New York Land Conservancy Inc$3,00010%
Armor Volunteer Fire Company Inc$3,00050%
The Redbone Inc$3,00011%
Tashi Gomang Dharma Center$3,0002n/a
Clean Air Coalition of Western New York Inc$2,86710%
Kevin Guest House Inc$2,5001n/a
Music Is Art$2,50011%
Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc$2,14010%
Elmwood-Franklin School Inc$2,10020%
Greenbrier Valley Aquatic Center$2,00010%
Buffalo Seminary$2,00010%
The Zach Liberatore Foundation Inc$2,00021%
Ellison Institute Research Foundation$2,00010%
Big Cat Rescue Corp$2,00020%
Vibe Coaches Educational Foundation$2,0001n/a
Jeffrey Michael Sgroi Foundation Inc$1,8505n/a
Williams College$1,65030%
Boys and Girls Club of Orchard Park Inc$1,60020%
The 11 Day Power Play Inc$1,50020%
Village Community Market$1,5001n/a
Wny Heroes Inc$1,50010%
East Los Angeles College Foundation$1,50010%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$1,45030%
Islamorada Firefighters Benevolent Asso$1,27812%
Colt 45 Strong Inc$1,20021%
Healthstar Foundation$1,2001n/a
Police Athletic League of Buffalo$1,00010%
National Speleological Society$1,00010%
Family Promise of Western New York$1,00010%
Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy Inc$1,00010%
World Central Kitchen Inc$1,00010%
South Buffalo Charter School$1,00010%
Old Stone Presbyterian Church$1,0001n/a
International Medical Corps$1,00010%
Power of Song Inc$1,0001n/a
Swim Across America Inc$1,00010%
Conesus Fest for Charity Inc$1,00010%
The Joy Center Inc$1,00011%
Drepung Gomang Institute$1,00010%
The New Group Inc$1,00010%
Buffalo Maritime Center Inc$1,00010%
Marc Foundation Inc$1,00011%
Gulliver Preparatory School Inc$1,00010%
Hogenkamp Roth Foundation$1,0001n/a
Mark a Monaco Memorial Foundation Inc$8004n/a
Punt Pediatric Cancer Collaborative Inc$75030%
One Symphony Circle Inc$75021%
Susan Haxton Memorial Foundation Inc$6503n/a
Childhood Brain Cancer Collaborative Inc$50011%
The Salvation Army$5001n/a
Cardinal O'Hara High School$5001n/a
Gods Woman Vanessa Scott Outreach Ministries Inc$50012%
Hospice of Cincinnati Incorporated$50010%
Feedmore Wny Foundation Inc$50010%
League of Historic American Theatres Inc$5001n/a
The Summit Center Inc$50010%
Pathways to Housing - Pa$50010%
Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc$50010%
Good Health Clinic Inc$50010%
Rayzors Foundation$5001n/a
Estonian American National Council Inc$5001n/a
Friendship Missionary Baptist Churc H$4501n/a
The Sundari Foundation Inc$30010%
Movember Foundation$30010%
Blood Cancer United Inc$30010%
University of Wisconsin Foundation$30010%
Florida Fishing Academy Inc$25010%
Save the Music Foundation$25010%
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc$20010%
Open Buffalo Inc$20010%
Providence House Inc$20010%
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation$2001n/a
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Inc$20010%
Talk the New Sex Ed Inc$20010%
Buffalo State College Foundation Inc$20010%
The Broadway League Foundation Inc$20020%
Florida Sheriffs Association Inc$2510%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 86 recipients with no EIN on record ($287k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Dreamcatcher Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 86 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSt Lawrence University: $91,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCulinary Institute of America: $58,890 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetIslamorada Foundation Inc: $38,467 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetUpper Keys Foundation Inc: $28,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetBonefish & Tarpon Trust Inc: $27,234 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetRoswell Park Alliance Foundation: $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVoices for Florida Keys Children Inc: $15,650 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetD'Youville University: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Traveling School: $12,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetBuffalo Center For Health EquityInc: $10,830 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetNichols School of Buffalo: $10,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNiagara University: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Buffalo Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCasey Powell World Lacrosse Foundation Inc: $9,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetHauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute Inc: $8,967 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMassachusetts Avenue Project Inc: $8,450 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRmhc of Western New York Inc: $7,363 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWestern New York United Against Drug & Alcohol Abuse Inc: $7,214 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKids Escaping Drugs Inc: $6,782 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Tampa Bay Inc: $6,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUPward Design for Life Corporation: $6,200 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetThe Park School of Buffalo: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Rochester: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTransgender Law Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Museum of Nw Arkansas: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHamburg Alumni Foundation: $4,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetWestern New York Land Conservancy Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArmor Volunteer Fire Company Inc: $3,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Redbone Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetClean Air Coalition of Western New York Inc: $2,867 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMusic Is Art: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFeeding America Tampa Bay Inc: $2,140 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElmwood-Franklin School Inc: $2,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreenbrier Valley Aquatic Center: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBuffalo Seminary: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Zach Liberatore Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetEllison Institute Research Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBig Cat Rescue Corp: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWilliams College: $1,650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Orchard Park Inc: $1,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe 11 Day Power Play Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWny Heroes Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEast Los Angeles College Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $1,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIslamorada Firefighters Benevolent Asso: $1,278 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetColt 45 Strong Inc: $1,200 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPolice Athletic League of Buffalo: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 86.

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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.

Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY52.8× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The Baird Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · The Frank G Raichle Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · Cullen Foundation · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · The Osc Charitable Foundation · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · Rich Family Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

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.

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About Dreamcatcher Foundation Inc

How much does Dreamcatcher Foundation Inc give?
Dreamcatcher Foundation Inc reported 71 grants totaling $175,084 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 55 and 67 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Dreamcatcher Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (38%), Health (15%), Recreation & Sports (7%).
Who are Dreamcatcher Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: St Lawrence University ($91k), Culinary Institute of America ($59k), Islamorada Foundation Inc ($38k).
Does Dreamcatcher Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 70% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dreamcatcher Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dreamcatcher Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, The Baird Foundation, First Niagara Foundation.
Where is Dreamcatcher Foundation Inc based?
Dreamcatcher Foundation Inc is based in FL.

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 197 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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