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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.

$5.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$575k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$4.5MHuman Services$4.1MEducation$3.2MHealth$1.4MHousing & Shelter$772kInternational$123kCrime & Legal$15kScience & Tech$7k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $982,898, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,485,161 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,502,263 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $112k
  • $250k+2 grants · $850k
$275,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCAN-HARBOR INC$575,400
SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC$275,000
NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION$112,498
HARLEM DOWLING WEST SIDE CTR$20,000
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 (FY17–25, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: $115k → 9%You Gotta Believe: $23k → 20%Wounded Warrior Project: $5k → 14%SCO FAMILY OF SERVICES: $214k → 6%Children's Village: $39k → 9%Covenant House: $200k → 17%SCO Family of Services: $122k → 6%Covenant House: $134k → 17%SCO Family of Services: $6k → 6%Covenant House: $51k → 17%SCO Family of Services: $6k → 6%Covenant House: $24k → 17%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $275k → 6%COVENANT HOUSE: $10k → 17%Sunrise Association: $24k → 6%Harlem Dowling: $50k → 17%Harlem Dowling: $25k → 17%HARLEM DOWLING WEST SIDE CTR: $20k → 17%HOMES FOR THE HOMELESS: $127k → 17%enCourage Kids Foundation: $150k → 17%enCourage Kids Foundation: $23k → 17%Childrens Aid Society: $1.0M → 17%Children's Aid: $78k → 17%Children's Aid: $35k → 17%Women in Need: $40k → 17%Children's Aid Society: $10k → 17%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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 65% of Garden of Dreams Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 37%.

Garden of Dreams Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 16 repeat orgs$519k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
12

Total granted

$14M
$407k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+48%

Still filing today

100%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $112k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationScience & TechRecreation & 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

  • MS
    Madison Square Boys & Girls Club
    5× · 2017–2021 · $3.3M · revenue +19%
  • SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $3.0M · revenue +37%
  • SI
    SCAN-HARBOR INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • HF
    HOMES FOR THE HOMELESS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $127k · revenue +35%
  • LI
    LONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTERgraduated
    4× · 2017–2020 · $80k · revenue +62%
  • WOMEN IN NEED INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +66%
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
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
2
Lenox Hill Hospital

Lenox hill hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future generations…

Health
3
Northern Westchester Hospital Association

Northern westchester hospital association is an affiliate within northwell health, inc. ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care;…

Health
4
Long Island Community Hospital At Nyu Langone Health

The goals and objectives of the corporation are as follows:(a) to operate and maintain a nonsectarian, general hospital at one or more locations for the furnishing of inpatient, ambulatory, restorative, preventative and emergency medical…

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5
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

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

Health
6
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
7
North Shore University Hospital

North shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
8
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
9
South Shore University Hospital

South shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
10
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
11
Physician Affiliate Group of New York Pc

To provide accountable, responsive quality care with the highest degree of sensitivity to the needs of our diverse, multilingual population while fulfilling the professional and educational needs of our members.

Health
12
Northwell Healthcare Inc

Northwell healthcare inc. coordinates policy making and strategic planning by providing advisory and administrative support services to affiliated health care organizations within northwell health; whose mission is to improve the health of…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Village Inc; the most unlike its peers is New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled Maintaining the. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

39 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/39
Grantees still filing
32/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Madison Square Boys & Girls Club: $3,308,100 · Youth DevelopmentMadison Square Boys & Girls ClubPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC: $1,193,004 · Youth DevelopmentPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC: $3,012,350 · EducationSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INCTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $1,122,771 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOC…COVENANT HOUSE: $419,392 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSESCO FAMILY OF SERVICES: $346,913 · Human ServicesSCO FAMILY OF SERVICESSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $299,000 · Human ServicesSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSO…ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $173,000 · Human ServicesENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDAT…THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC: $153,875 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE…HOMES FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $126,861 · Human ServicesHARLEM DOWLING WEST SIDE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $94,992 · Human Services+3 more: $68,000 · Human ServicesSCAN-HARBOR INC: $1,955,050 · OtherSCAN-HARBOR INCNORTHWELL HEALTH INC: $112,498 · Other+4 more: $54,045 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC: $558,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY INC: $250,962 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC: $110,000 · HealthLONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER: $80,000 · Health+3 more: $78,000 · HealthWOMEN'S HOUSING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $385,600 · Housing & ShelterNEW YORK EDGE INC: $236,175 · Recreation & Sports
Youth Development$4,501,104Education$3,012,350Human Services$2,804,804Other$2,121,593Health$1,076,962Housing & Shelter$385,600Recreation & Sports$236,175

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMadison Square Boys & Girls Club: $3,308,100 over 5y, 10% of budgetSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC: $3,012,350 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSCAN-HARBOR INC: $1,955,050 over 6y, 7.3% of budgetPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC: $1,193,004 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $1,122,771 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC: $558,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $419,392 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN'S HOUSING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $385,600 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetSCO FAMILY OF SERVICES: $346,913 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $299,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY INC: $250,962 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetNEW YORK EDGE INC: $236,175 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $173,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC: $153,875 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHOMES FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $126,861 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC: $110,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetHARLEM DOWLING WEST SIDE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $94,992 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetLONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN IN NEED INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWestchester Medical Center Foundation: $27,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetThe New York and Presbyterian Hospital: $26,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYOU GOTTA BELIEVE - THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION & PERMANENCY MOVEMENT INC: $23,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetDETECTIVES ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION WIDOWS & CHILDRENS FUND INC: $15,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetSAE INTERNATIONAL: $7,345 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE HUDSON VALLEY: $5,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% 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.

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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…The New York Communit…Pinkerton FoundationUnited Way of New Yor…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Robin Hood FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…United Way Miami IncMother Cabrini Health…Jewish Communal FundGood Sports IncNational Philanthropi…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY19.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Garden of Dreams Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Garden of Dreams Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 29 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 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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