Missouri · Private foundation
I Have a Dream Foundation St Louis
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.
- $23k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $17k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations I Have a Dream Foundation St Louis 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 | 10 | $23k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $20k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $20k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $11k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $12k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $12k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $11k | 22% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $10k | 13% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Special Education Foundation | $30,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Progress in Education Inc | $19,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Wilson School | $12,000 | 5 | 0% |
| St Louis Public Schools Foundation | $11,500 | 9 | 0% |
| City Academy Inc | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The New City School Inc | $8,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Missouri Historical Society | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kingdom House D/B/A Lifewise Stl | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Loyola Marymount University | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($35k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget I Have a Dream Foundation St Louis 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 Blackbaud Giving Fund · St Louis Community Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare I Have a Dream Foundation St Louis with peer funders
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About I Have a Dream Foundation St Louis
- How much does I Have a Dream Foundation St Louis give?
- I Have a Dream Foundation St Louis reported 10 grants totaling $22,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does I Have a Dream Foundation St Louis fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (68%), Health (23%), Arts & Culture (8%).
- Who are I Have a Dream Foundation St Louis's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Special Education Foundation ($30k), Progress in Education Inc ($19k), The Wilson School ($12k).
- Does I Have a Dream Foundation St Louis fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does I Have a Dream Foundation St Louis accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as I Have a Dream Foundation St Louis?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Blackbaud Giving Fund, St Louis Community Foundation, St Louis Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is I Have a Dream Foundation St Louis based?
- I Have a Dream Foundation St Louis is based in MO.
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