· Private foundation
Dreams R US 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $240k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COVENANT HOUSE OF NEW YORK | $150,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF LONG ISLAND | $125,000 |
| MUSICOPIA | $100,000 |
| LITTLE FLOWER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES | $75,000 |
| FARMS FOR CITY KIDS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| EMBRELLA | $39,000 |
| OUR LADY OF THE HAMPTONS | $37,600 |
| THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT PROJECT | $25,800 |
| MERCY CENTER MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| THE PLACE | $25,000 |
| THE BASILICA CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS AND MARY | $18,100 |
| THE DELA SALLE SCHOOL | $17,000 |
| ANCHOR HOUSE | $15,000 |
| SACRED HEART ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| TIMOTHY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $12,078 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
24 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CHCOVENANT HOUSE5× · 2018–2022 · $750k · revenue +11%
- MIMUSICOPIA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $590k · revenue +359%
EmbrellaInc9× · 2017–2025 · $351k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $50k
- LFLITTLE FLOWER CHILDREN SERVICESone grant, 2017 · $39k
- OLOUR LADY OF MERCYone grant, 2017 · $18k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Since 1972, under 21, d.b.a. covenant house new york (chny) has been working with one of new york city's most vulnerable populations - youth experiencing homelessness, age 16-24, and their dependent children. chny provides young people…
To provide shelter, food, medical and mental health care, legal services, educational and vocational services and an array of housing options, including transitional and permanent housing opportunities, for youth facing homelessness and…
Covenant house is dedicated to serving all of god's children with absolute respect and unconditional love to help youth experiencing homelessness and to protect and safeguard all youth in need.
Covenant house georgia provides shelters, protects and advocates on behalf of homeless, trafficked, runaway and sexually exploited youth.
Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.
The child center of ny strengthens children and families with skills, opportunities, and emotional support to build healthy, successful lives.
Our mission is to serve children and youth facing homelessness and human trafficking, and to protect and safeguard all children. we provide trauma-informed interventions for youth who are in need.covenant house pennsylvania (chpa) remains…
Covenant house missouri serves young people age 16-24 who are living without homes and/or victims of human trafficking and protect and safeguard all youth with absolute respect and unconditional love.
diaspora community services is a social support service agency that empowers low income families and individuals to maximize their abilities to overcome obstacles to their well-being and self-sufficiency.
Founded in 1991, community housing innovations, inc. (chi) is a not-for-profit organization serving several new york counties. chi's mission is to provide housing and human services that support social and economic independence. chi's…
We assist young mothers with housing and wrap around services.
Covenant house new orleans (the organization) is a not-for-profit organization affiliated with 34 similar organizations across five countries, all of which are affiliates of covenant house international (parent affiliate) and share a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Little Flower Children Family Services of New York and the most unlike its peers is Nosh Delivers Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 35 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LONG ISLAND ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MUSICOPIA INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE FLOWER CHILDREN FAMILY SERVICES OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds FARMS FOR CITY KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EmbrellaInc ↗
- Who funds ARTS IN SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds The Place ↗
- Who funds MERCY CENTER MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP CENTER FOR NEW BEGINNINGS INC ↗
- Who funds ANCHOR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF NORTH CENTRAL JERSEY ↗
- Who funds TIMOTHY HILL CHILDREN'S RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds NOSH Delivers Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Verizon Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Dreams R US 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Anchor House Inc — 45% of income from government
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.