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The Childrens Dream Foundation

Raising the quality of health care for children in the Hudson Valley region of New York

$94k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
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 2024.

Health$270kEducation$38kReligion$17kCommunity Improvement$15kScience & Tech$15k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $82,264, the rows itemized in this filing. The $94,005 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $11,741 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

  • Under $10k4 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $49k
$9,245
Median grant
1
States reached
$307k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WESTCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER-MF$25,000
PHELPS HOSPITAL$13,225
ST JOSEPHS MEDICAL CENTER$11,000
BLYTHDALE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$9,245
WESTCHESTE COMMUNITY HEATH CE$8,505
ELIZABETH SETON CHILDRENS CTR$8,500
GARNET HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER$6,789
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%HUDSON RIVER HEALTH CARE: $8k → 9%MONTEFIORE NYACK HOSPITAL: $6k → 14%GARNET HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER: $7k → 14%MERCY COLLEGE SCHOOL OF NURSI: $15k → 9%PHELPS HOSPITAL: $17k → 9%PHELPS HOSPITAL: $13k → 9%PHELPS HOSPITAL: $10k → 9%WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL: $17k → 9%NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL: $9k → 9%MOUNT VERNON NEIGHBORHOOD HC: $20k → 9%MOUNT VERNON NEIGHBORHOOD HC: $15k → 9%MOUNT VERNON NEIGHBORHOOD HC: $10k → 9%WESTCHESTE COMMUNITY HEATH CE: $9k → 9%MOUNT VERNON NEIGHBORHOOD HC: $6k → 9%GREENBURGH HEALTH CENTER: $35k → 9%OPEN DOOR: $17k → 9%ST JOHNS RIVERSIDE HOSPITAL: $23k → 9%ST JOHNS RIVERSIDE HOSPITAL: $16k → 9%ST JOSEPHS MEDICAL CENTER: $11k → 9%ELIZABETH SETON CHILDRENS CTR: $9k → 9%ELIZABETH SETON CHILDRENS CTR: $8k → 9%ELIZABETH SETON CHILDRENS CTR: $7k → 9%ST JOHNS RIVERSIDE HOSPITAL: $5k → 9%NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE: $33k → 9%WESTCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER-MF: $25k → 9%WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $21k → 9%WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $17k → 9%NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE: $15k → 9%NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE: $11k → 9%BLYTHDALE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $9k → 9%NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE: $9k → 9%WESTCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER-MF: $8k → 9%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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$296k · 7 repeat orgs$142k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
7

Total granted

$296k
$106k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+36%

Still filing today

43%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

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

  • NY
    NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE
    7× · 2017–2023 · $67k · revenue +10%
  • SJ
    ST JOHNS RIVERSIDE HOSPITAL ANDRUS PARKCARE & DOBBS FERRY
    3× · 2021–2024 · $44k · revenue +21%
  • ES
    ELIZABETH SETON PEDIATRIC CENTER
    4× · 2020–2025 · $23k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • MV
    MOUNT VERNON NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $35k · revenue +17%
  • OD
    OPEN DOOR INC
    one grant, 2024 · $17k
  • WP
    White Plains Hospital Medical Centergraduated
    3× · 2017–2020 · $17k · revenue +98%
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
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
2
John T Mather Memorial Hospital

John t. mather memorial hospital ("mather") is a non-profit community hospital that is part of northwell health. mather strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical…

Health
3
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the 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…

Health
4
Lenox Hill Hospital Medical Pc

Lenox hill hospital medical, pc 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
5
Northwell Health Inc

Northwell health is the parent company of a fully integrated health system that is committed to promote clinical care, health education, conduct biomedical research, and caring for the community regardless of ability to pay.

Community Improvement
6
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
7
Plainview Hospital

Plainview hospital is part of 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; educating the current and future…

Health
8
Glen Cove Hospital

Glen cove hospital is part of northwell health, inc. ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality geriatric care; educating the current and future…

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
Central Suffolk Hospital

Central suffolk hospital ("csh") d/b/a peconic bay medical center ("pbmc") is a not-for-profit hospital consisting of acute health care, a skilled nursing facility and a certified home care agency. csh provides a full range of health care…

Health
11
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
12
Northwell Inc

Northwell, inc. is organized and operated exclusively for charitable, scientific and educational purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code. northwell, inc. is organized and operated exclusively for the…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montefiore Nyack Hospital; the most unlike its peers is St Johns Riverside Hospital Andrus Parkcare & Dobbs Ferry. 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

12 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. 12 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
12/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE: $67,195 · OtherNEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGEMOUNT VERNON NEIGHBORHOOD HC: $51,070 · OtherMOUNT VERNON NEIGHBORHOOD HCPHELPS HOSPITAL: $40,410 · OtherPHELPS HOSPITALWESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $38,052 · OtherWESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGEWESTCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER-MF: $33,069 · OtherWESTCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER-MFELIZABETH SETON PEDIATRIC CENTER: $22,500 · OtherELIZABETH SETON PEDIATRIC CENTEROPEN DOOR INC: $17,325 · OtherOPEN DOOR INCMERCY COLLEGE SCHOOL OF NURSI: $15,000 · OtherST JOSEPHS MEDICAL CENTER: $11,000 · Other+1 more: $8,505 · OtherST JOHNS RIVERSIDE HOSPITAL ANDRUS PARKCARE & DOBBS FERRY: $43,720 · HealthST JOHNS RIVERSIDE HOSPITAL ANDRUS…MOUNT VERNON NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER INC: $35,000 · HealthMOUNT VERNON NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH C…White Plains Hospital Medical Center: $16,645 · HealthWhite Plains Hospital Medical Cent…BLYTHEDALE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $9,245 · HealthBLYTHEDALE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALNORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $9,000 · HealthNORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSO…SUN RIVER HEALTH INC: $7,500 · HealthSUN RIVER HEALTH INCGarnet Health Medical Center: $6,789 · HealthMontefiore Nyack Hospital: $5,575 · Health
Other$304,126Health$133,474

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE: $67,195 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHNS RIVERSIDE HOSPITAL ANDRUS PARKCARE & DOBBS FERRY: $43,720 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT VERNON NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetELIZABETH SETON PEDIATRIC CENTER: $22,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center: $16,645 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSUN RIVER HEALTH INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMontefiore Nyack Hospital: $5,575 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.

Montefiore Medical Ce…The Afya Foundation o…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Montefiore Medical CenterNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Montefiore Medical Center · The Afya Foundation of America Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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 18 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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