New York · Public charity
Garden of Dreams Foundation
Our mission is supported by three core pillars: 1) community projects - we provide direct financial support for improvements to community facilities, as well as for community-based sports, entertainment and media projects, that enhance the environment of young people where they live and grow. 2) education - we provide scholarships for…
- $5.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $983k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $275,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $575,400
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.9M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Garden of Dreams Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $983k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $1.0M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $602k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $92k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $116k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $3.8M | 73% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $1.6M | 33% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $2.6M | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madison Square Boys & Girls Club | $3,308,100 | 5 | 10% |
| Scholarship America Inc | $3,012,350 | 4 | 0% |
| Scan-Harbor Inc | $1,955,050 | 6 | 7% |
| Police Athletic League Inc | $1,193,004 | 6 | 4% |
| The Children's Aid Society | $1,122,771 | 6 | 1% |
| Ronald McDonald House of New York Inc | $558,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Covenant House | $419,392 | 7 | 0% |
| Women's Housing & Economic Development Corporation | $385,600 | 7 | 1% |
| Sco Family of Services | $346,913 | 7 | 0% |
| Sunrise Day Camps Association Inc | $299,000 | 3 | 3% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Garden of Dreams Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust · Pinkerton Foundation · United Way of New York City · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · United Way Miami Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Good Sports Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
About Garden of Dreams Foundation
- How much does Garden of Dreams Foundation give?
- Garden of Dreams Foundation reported 4 itemized grants totaling $982,898, out of $5,485,161 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Garden of Dreams Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (32%), Human Services (29%), Education (23%).
- Who are Garden of Dreams Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Madison Square Boys & Girls Club ($3.3M), Scholarship America Inc ($3.0M), Scan-Harbor Inc ($2.0M).
- Does Garden of Dreams Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Garden of Dreams Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The New York Community Trust, Pinkerton Foundation.
- Where is Garden of Dreams Foundation based?
- Garden of Dreams Foundation is based in NY.
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