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Dreamcatcher Fund

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.

$191k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
20
Organizations funded FY2023
40%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$95,413
Largest grant, FY2024
$95,413
Organizations funded a year
13 to 20
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Dreamcatcher Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
InternationalFood & NutritionEducationHealthAnimalsArts & CultureOther
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
FY2024still arriving2$191k100%
FY202320$30k40%
FY202218$36k61%
FY202117$36k94%
FY202013$18kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$98kPhilanthropy$96kInternational$26kEducation$23kScience & Tech$11kFood & Nutrition$10kEnvironment$10kHealth$8kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
VA
AR
DC
MS
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 27 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($244k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dreamcatcher Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRust College: $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $7,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetXerces Society Inc: $5,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGlobalgiving Foundation Inc: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWaterorg: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels Inc: $2,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Near East Refugee Aid: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUkrainians of Colorado: $2,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSeed Savers Exchange Inc: $2,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLegal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles: $2,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $2,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSea Turtle Conservancy: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank of the Rockies: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAkron-Canton Regional Foodbank: $1,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Actors' Fund of America: $1,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMile High United Way Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWeathervane Playhouse Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWisdom Thinkers Network Inc: $500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHumane Society of Summit County: $450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Novel Writing Month: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 25.

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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.

Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY13× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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How do I get to Dreamcatcher Fund?

Find your warmest path to Dreamcatcher Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Dreamcatcher Fund

How much does Dreamcatcher Fund give?
Dreamcatcher Fund reported 2 grants totaling $190,826 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 20 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Dreamcatcher Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (32%), Philanthropy (31%), International (8%).
Who are Dreamcatcher Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Rust College ($9k), World Wildlife Fund Inc ($7k), Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc ($7k).
Does Dreamcatcher Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dreamcatcher Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dreamcatcher Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Verizon Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Dreamcatcher Fund based?
Dreamcatcher Fund is based in CO.

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 51 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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