New York · Public charity
Follow Your Dream Foundation Inc
To create better futures for disadvantaged people
- $21M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 36
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 87%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $19M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $198,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $4,400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 30
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $30M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 87% of the organizations Follow Your Dream Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 71% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.6M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 31 | $15M | 74% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $14M | 87% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $3.5M | 88% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $275k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Clear Fund | $5,000,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Ubs Optimus Foundation US Inc | $4,400,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Educate | $2,400,000 | 1 | 22% |
| Eyelliance Inc | $2,320,000 | 2 | 17% |
| Arbor Brothers Inc Dba Arbor Rising | $1,975,000 | 3 | 28% |
| Digital Divide Data | $1,800,000 | 3 | 56% |
| One Acre Fund | $1,750,000 | 2 | 0% |
| MIT International Inc | $1,152,452 | 1 | 9% |
| The Global Development Incubator Inc | $1,000,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Appleseed Foundation Inc | $750,000 | 1 | 93% |
Show all 58 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($300k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Follow Your Dream Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 53 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Dovetail Impact Foundation (Fka David Weekley Family Foundation) · Skoll Fund · Mulago Foundation · Rippleworks Inc · The Skoll Foundation · Gates Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Segal Family Foundation Inc · Imago Dei Fund · Marin Community Foundation · The Horace W Goldsmith Foundation
How this is measured
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About Follow Your Dream Foundation Inc
- How much does Follow Your Dream Foundation Inc give?
- Follow Your Dream Foundation Inc reported 36 itemized grants totaling $18,961,097, out of $20,931,602 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 30 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Follow Your Dream Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (42%), Philanthropy (20%), Community Improvement (15%).
- Who are Follow Your Dream Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: The Clear Fund ($5.0M), Ubs Optimus Foundation US Inc ($4.4M), Educate ($2.4M).
- Does Follow Your Dream Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 87% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Follow Your Dream Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Dovetail Impact Foundation (Fka David Weekley Family Foundation), Skoll Fund.
- Where is Follow Your Dream Foundation Inc based?
- Follow Your Dream Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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