How much does The Foundation for Dreamers give?

The Foundation for Dreamers reported 8 grants totaling $61,107 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Foundation for Dreamers fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (74%), Food & Nutrition (8%), Human Services (5%).

Who are The Foundation for Dreamers's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Action Against Hunger - USA ($825k), The Miracle Foundation Inc ($50k), The Nobelity Project ($27k).

Does The Foundation for Dreamers fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Foundation for Dreamers accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Foundation for Dreamers?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Austin Community Foundation Inc, United Way Worldwide, Shell USA Company Foundation.

Where is The Foundation for Dreamers based?

The Foundation for Dreamers is based in TX.

The Foundation for Dreamers

The Foundation for Dreamers at a glance

· Private foundation

The Foundation for Dreamers

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$61k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$45k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

International$835kFood & Nutrition$91kHuman Services$56kEducation$55kHealth$26kArts & Culture$19kAnimals$17kPhilanthropy$11kOther$0

02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k7 grants · $16k
$10k–50k1 grant · $45k

$2,606

Median grant

States reached

$956k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ACTION AGAINST HUNGER USA	$45,000
THE BEATRICE F KROESCHE	$6,000
NOVA UKRAINE	$2,892
MIRACLE FOUNDATION	$2,606
NORWICH UNIVERSITY	$2,500
NATIONAL MS SOCIETY	$933
TEAM RUBICON	$676
ST JUDE	$500

02The need

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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Its human-services grants (FY18–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.0M · 23 repeat orgs$107k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.0M

$105k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%

+26%

Still filing today

65%

57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalFood & NutritionAnimalsEducationHealthHuman 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

AA
ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA
5× · 2021–2025 · $825k · revenue +37%
TM
THE MIRACLE FOUNDATION INC
6× · 2018–2025 · $50k · revenue +68%
AP
AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC
3× · 2018–2020 · $5k · revenue +197%

Funded once

CA
CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK
one grant, 2020 · $35k
TC
THE CORNUCOPIA INSTITUTE INC
one grant, 2018 · $24k · revenue -25%
SA
SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK
one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +18%

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.

International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International

United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition

Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition

Animal Agriculture Alliance

The animal agriculture alliance is a nonprofit organization that helps bridge the communication gap between farm and fork. we connect food industry stakeholders, engage food chain influencers and promote consumer choice by helping key…

Food & Nutrition

Austin Habitat for Humanity Inc

Through faith in action, austin habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

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The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International

Feeding Texas

To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.

Community Improvement

Pact Inc

Pact is a nonprofit organization that builds evidence-based, data-driven, and community-led solutions for human development (continued in schedule o)

International

Patient Access Network Foundation

As a leading charitable foundation and healthcare advocacy organization, the pan foundation is dedicated to accelerating access to treatment for those who need it most and empowering patients on their healthcare journeys. we provide…

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Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation

Through philanthropy, empower current and future food and nutrition practitioners to optimize global health.

Health

Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science

Texas Alliance for Patient Access

Preserve access to quality healthcare for all texans

Community Improvement

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa; the most unlike its peers is Cystic Fibrosis 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

27 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. 27 of the 42 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/27

Grantees still filing

19/27

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

International$838,126Other$145,459Health$54,331Food & Nutrition$36,200Education$31,300Animals$12,000Philanthropy$10,915

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

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.

Austin Community Foundation IncTX17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · United Way Worldwide · Shell USA Company Foundation · Topfer Family Foundation · St David's Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Better Business Bureau · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home