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I Dream a World Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$488k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0182% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Benefit$625kEducation$607kArts & Culture$28kPhilanthropy$12kCivil Rights$3kRecreation & Sports$259Health$105Other$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $448k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$270k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEACH FOR AMERICA$200,000
FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK$100,000
FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK$74,000
FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK$74,000
SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM$13,000
FRIENDS OF TEACH FOR ARMENIA$10,000
ROCKING THE BOAT$5,225
EPIC THEATRE ENSEMBLE$5,000
ROCKING THE BOAT$5,000
THE CITY$1,000
HAMPTONS ART CAMP$412
PADDLERS FOR HUMANITY$259
COOKIES FOR KIDS' CANCER$105
THE HEARST CORPORATION$100
THE IMPRINT$80
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ANSEYE POU AYITI: $5k → 8%CARNEGIE FOUNDATION: $126 → 8%NEW SCHOOL VENTURE FUND: $1k → 10%FRIENDS OF TEACH FOR ARMENIA: $10k → 14%PADDLERS FOR HUMANITY: $259 → 7%AMERICA NEEDS YOU: $1k → 17%ROCKING THE BOAT: $5k → 28%GRANTMAKERS FOR EDUCATION: $471 → 12%STRIVE TOGETHER INC: $10k → 16%THE COLLABORATIVE FOR ACADEMIC SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING (CASEL): $2k → 14%SIMA: $8k → 14%HAMPTONS ART CAMP: $412 → 7%RACE FORWARD NEW YORK: $3k → 17%ROCKING THE BOAT: $5k → 28%STRIVE TOGETHER: $1k → 16%CHALKBEAT: $46k → 17%STRIVE TOGETHER: $962 → 16%CHALKBEAT: $11k → 17%STRIVE TOGETHER: $210 → 16%OTHER: $6k → 17%CHALKBEAT: $809 → 17%SYMPHONY SPACE: $3k → 17%OTHER: $173 → 17%SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM: $13k → 17%CUNY: $75k → 17%FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $150k → 17%CUNY: $25k → 17%FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $50k → 17%EPIC THEATRE ENSEMBLE: $5k → 17%EPIC THEATRE ENSEMBLE: $5k → 17%STUDENT SUCCESS NETWORK: $493k → 17%STUDENT SUCCESS NETWORK: $352k → 17%STUDENT SUCCESS NETWORK: $284k → 17%TEACH FOR AMERICA: $200k → 17%TEACH FOR AMERICA: $200k → 17%FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $100k → 17%TEACH FOR AMERICA: $100k → 17%FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $74k → 17%FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $74k → 17%STUDENT SUCCESS NETWORK: $50k → 17%STUDENT SUCCESS NETWORK: $50k → 17%TEACH FOR AMERICA: $44k → 17%TEACH FOR AMERICA: $36k → 17%THE CITY: $1k → 17%THE CITY: $1k → 17%BLUE ENGINE: $500 → 17%EAST HARLEM TUTORIAL PROGRAM: $1k → 17%PENCIL INC: $500 → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 9 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against -11% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
14

Total granted

$2.5M
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
-11%

Still filing today

67%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CIVIC NEWS COMPANY
    4× · 2017–2022 · $77k · revenue +176%
  • SI
    StriveTogether Inc
    4× · 2018–2022 · $12k · revenue +284%
  • CR
    City Report Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • S
    SIMA
    one grant, 2022 · $8k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • RF
    RACE FORWARD NEW YORK
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
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
National Institute for Excellence in Teaching

Building educator excellence to give all students the opportunity for success.

Education
2
New Classrooms Innovation Partners Inc

To create and inspire better ways to give every student an educational foundation for lifelong success. we imagine a world where every student attends a school that meets them where they are, adapts to the unique ways they learn, and…

Education
3
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
4
Strategic Education Research Partnership Institute

The strategic education research partnership generates innovative, scalable solutions to our schools' most pressing problems through sustained collaborations among researchers, practitioners, and designers. we work to increase equity,…

Science & Tech
5
The New York Opportunity Network Inc Dba the Opportunity Network

The opportunity network ignites the drive, curiosity, and agency of underrepresented students on their paths to and through college and into thriving careers, powered by our commitment to access and community.

Education
6
Futures Ignite Inc

We amplify youth and community power by inspiring, guiding, and advocating for youth to determine their college, career, and leadership futures.

Human Services
7
Future Problem Solving Program International Inc

Future problem solving proudly celebrates more than 50 years of placing close to a million young people at the core of a dynamic, purposeful learning experience. each year k-12 students from around the world participate in a variety of…

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8
Jobsfirstnyc

Jobsfirstnyc's mission is to create and advance solutions that break down barriers and transform the systems supporting young adults and their communities in the pursuit of economic opportunities.

Youth Development
9
Workforce Professionals Training Institute

Wpti's mission is to build the capacities of people, programs, and organizations that provide job training, placement, and career guidance for individuals and to advocate for policies that promote economic opportunities for all.

Employment
10
The Teak Fellowship Inc

To help academically talented new york city students from low-income families earn admission into the most selective secondary schools and colleges.

Human Services
11
The Partnership for After School Education Inc

The partnership for after school education is a child-focused organization that promotes and supports quality after school programs, particularly those serving young people from underserved communities. the partnership for after school…

Education
12
Studio in a School Association Inc

From classrooms to careers, studio in a school expands access to visual arts education and professions in the arts by partnering with practicing artists, schools, and cultural institutions.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Teach for All Inc; the most unlike its peers is Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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)
22/22
Grantees still filing
8/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $1,228,910 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCUNY: $100,392 · OtherCUNY+10 more: $26,132 · OtherTeach for America Inc: $580,148 · EducationTeach for America IncCIVIC NEWS COMPANY: $77,070 · EducationCIVIC NEWS COMPANY+7 more: $22,842 · EducationFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $448,000 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR THE CITY OF…+3 more: $13,209 · PhilanthropySOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $13,000 · Arts & CultureEPIC THEATRE CENTER INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCity Report Inc: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $412 · Arts & CultureCOLLABORATIVE FOR ACADEMIC SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING: $1,609 · Youth DevelopmentCOOKIES FOR KIDS CANCER A NEW JERSEY NON-PROFIT CORPORATION: $105 · HealthFOSTERING MEDIA CONNECTIONS: $80 · Human Services
Other$1,355,434Education$680,060Philanthropy$461,209Arts & Culture$25,412Youth Development$1,609Health$105Human Services$80

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 budgetTeach for America Inc: $580,148 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $448,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCIVIC NEWS COMPANY: $77,070 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStriveTogether Inc: $12,450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROCKING THE BOAT INC: $10,225 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEPIC THEATRE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF TEACH FOR ARMENIA INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE SYMPHONY SPACE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCity Report Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLABORATIVE FOR ACADEMIC SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING: $1,609 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA NEEDS YOU: $1,434 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST HARLEM TUTORIAL PROGRAM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENCIL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE ENGINE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRANTMAKERS FOR EDUCATION: $471 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAMPTONS COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $412 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPADDLERS FOR HUMANITY INC: $259 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW VISIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $107 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOOKIES FOR KIDS CANCER A NEW JERSEY NON-PROFIT CORPORATION: $105 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEACH FOR ALL INC: $105 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOSTERING MEDIA CONNECTIONS: $80 over 1y, 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.

Carnegie Corporation …Silicon Valley Commun…The New York Communit…The Ford FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Jewish Communal FundGates FoundationAmerican Express Foun…National Philanthropi…The Ayco Charitable F…Vanguard Charitable E…
Carnegie Corporation of New YorkNY17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Carnegie Corporation of New York · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Gates Foundation · American Express Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 I Dream a World Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from I Dream a World Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to I Dream a World Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to I Dream a World Foundation Inc 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.

    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 32 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.

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