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Dreamcatcher Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$175k
Granted FY2025still arriving
71
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% 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
02FY2025 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k67 grants · $120k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
$1,200
Median grant
16
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
St Lawrence University$20,000
Bonefish & Tarpon Trust$14,734
The Traveling School$10,000
Culinary Institute of America$10,000
Individual grant recipient$6,750
Baptist Health Foundation Coral Gables FL$6,000
Upper Keys Foundation Inc$6,000
Upper Keys Foundation$5,500
Ronald McDonald House of Tampa$5,200
St Francis High School Hamburg NY$5,000
District School Board of Niagara$5,000
Niagara University$5,000
Upward Design for Life$5,000
Scott Family Amazeum$5,000
Plantation Key School Tavernier FL$4,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GOD'S WOMAN VANESSA SCOTT OUTREACH MINISTRIES: $500 → 14%BIG CAT RESCUE: $1k → 13%BIG CAT RESCUE: $1k → 13%MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE PROJECT: $8k → 13%FEEDMORE WNY FOUNDATION: $250 → 13%OPEN BUFFALO: $200 → 13%FEEDMORE WNY FOUNDATION: $250 → 13%WNY Heroes: $2k → 13%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

VT
WA
MT
IL
WI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$629k · 61 repeat orgs$239k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

61 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
105

Total granted

$629k
$194k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+9%

Still filing today

51%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $91k · revenue +3%
  • CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA
    4× · 2021–2025 · $59k · revenue +55%
  • IF
    ISLAMORADA FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $38k · revenue +146%

Funded once

  • V
    VELASANO
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • BC
    Buffalo Center For Health EquityInc
    one grant, 2023 · $11k
  • SA
    ST ADALBERTS RESPONSE TO LOVECENTER INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
2
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
3
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
University At Buffalo Surgeons Inc

University at buffalo surgeons, inc., is a large team of surgeons dedicated to the improvement of the health of our patients, cutting edge research, and the professional development of our students and residents. we are committed to…

Education
5
University At Buffalo Pediatric Associates Inc

To assist the faculty of the department of pediatrics at the university at buffalo in the delivery of health care, improve the ability of the faculty to perform clinical research, maximize resources to foster academic, research and…

Health
6
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
8
University At Buffalo Neurosurgery Inc

University at buffalo neurosurgery, inc. is an academic neurosurgical group committed to excellence in patient care, research, and education. our mission is to develop and implement sound strategies that focus on quality medical services,…

Health
9
Long Island University

To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.

—
10
The City University of New York School of Law Foundation Inc

The foundation supports the law school in its mission to increase access to legal education to those from groups underrepresented in the profession and to prepare its graduates for public interest and public service practice.

Education
11
St Francis College

St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.

Education
12
University at Buffalo Foundation Incubator Inc

The organization operates an incubator facility to identify and aid start-up businesses with a purpose of stimulating development and increasing interaction between the university at buffalo and such businesses.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wny Heroes Inc; the most unlike its peers is Islamorada Firefighters Benevolent Asso. 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

92 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. 92 of the 197 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/92
Grantees still filing
48/92
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION: $23,000 · OtherDISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD OF NIAGARA: $22,466 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $21,750 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $20,000 · OtherVELASANO: $15,000 · Other+144 more: $341,910 · Other+144 moreST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $91,000 · EducationST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITYCULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $58,890 · EducationCULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERIC…D'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITY: $12,000 · EducationD'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITYTHE TRAVELING SCHOOL: $12,000 · EducationTHE TRAVELING SCHOOLNICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO: $10,350 · EducationNIAGARA UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · Education+13 more: $27,250 · Education+13 moreUpper Keys Foundation Inc: $28,000 · PhilanthropyROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $18,000 · PhilanthropyVOICES FOR FLORIDA KEYS CHILDREN INC: $15,650 · Philanthropy+3 more: $3,500 · PhilanthropyBuffalo Center For Health EquityInc: $10,830 · HealthHAUPTMAN-WOODWARD MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $8,967 · HealthRMHC OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $7,363 · HealthKIDS ESCAPING DRUGS INC: $6,782 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF TAMPA BAY INC: $6,700 · HealthKEVIN GUEST HOUSE INC: $2,500 · HealthTHE ZACH LIBERATORE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · HealthELLISON INSTITUTE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Health+10 more: $6,600 · HealthISLAMORADA FOUNDATION INC: $38,467 · Community ImprovementBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC: $27,234 · AnimalsBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BUFFALO INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentUPward Design for Life Corporation: $6,200 · Youth DevelopmentPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF BUFFALO: $1,000 · Youth Development
Other$444,126Education$221,490Philanthropy$65,150Health$53,742Community Improvement$38,467Animals$27,234Youth Development$17,200

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

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
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.

  • Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds ISLAMORADA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Upper Keys Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VOICES FOR FLORIDA KEYS CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds D'YOUVILLE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE TRAVELING SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Buffalo Center For Health EquityInc ↗
  • Who funds NICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO ↗
  • Who funds NIAGARA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BUFFALO INC ↗
  • Who funds CASEY POWELL WORLD LACROSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HAUPTMAN-WOODWARD MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Avenue Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds RMHC OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN NEW YORK UNITED AGAINST DRUG & ALCOHOL ABUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds KIDS ESCAPING DRUGS INC ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
  • Who funds UPward Design for Life Corporation ↗
  • Who funds THE PARK SCHOOL OF BUFFALO ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗

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 …The Baird FoundationFirst Niagara Foundat…The Frank G Raichle F…The John R Oishei Fou…Cullen FoundationBuffalo Bills Foundat…The Osc Charitable Fo…James H Cummings Foun…Rich Family FoundationThe Western New York …Foundation for Jewish…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dreamcatcher Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dreamcatcher Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The Sundari Foundation Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Florida Sheriffs Association Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
  • Gulliver Preparatory School Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
27report 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 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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By state
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