California · Public charity
Ticket to Dream Foundation
TICKET TO DREAM FOUNDATION provides in-kind and monetary contributions to non-profit organizations located throughout the united states. Our charitable purpose is to support worthy charitable causes and charities with particular emphasis on charities related to children in need.
- $11M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 165
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 178
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.1M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $22,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 134 to 190
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 49
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.5M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Ticket to Dream Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $161k 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 | 160 | $1.1M | 2% |
| FY2024 | 178 | $1.9M | 6% |
| FY2023 | 190 | $3.4M | 5% |
| FY2022 | 186 | $3.5M | 12% |
| FY2021 | 162 | $1.5M | 14% |
| FY2020 | 134 | $655k | 7% |
| FY2019 | 144 | $1.4M | 3% |
| FY2018 | 164 | $2.1M | 17% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| iFoster Inc | $596,690 | 4 | 18% |
| The Translational Genomics Research Institute | $500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Seena Magowitz Foundation Inc | $482,772 | 3 | 8% |
| Treehouse | $352,602 | 9 | 1% |
| Olive Crest | $298,532 | 9 | 0% |
| Together We Rise | $296,790 | 4 | 1% |
| Depelchin Children's Center | $246,203 | 9 | 0% |
| Promises2kids Foundation | $239,861 | 9 | 3% |
| Youth Villages Inc | $230,632 | 9 | 0% |
| The Children's Home Society of Florida | $216,110 | 9 | 0% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Ticket to Dream Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: In-N-Out Burgers Foundation · National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association · Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · Tickets for Kids Foundation · Teichert Foundation · Dutch Bros Foundation · California Court Appointed Special Advocate Association · The Gap Foundation · Placer Community Foundation · United Way California Capital Region
How this is measured
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About Ticket to Dream Foundation
- How much does Ticket to Dream Foundation give?
- Ticket to Dream Foundation reported 165 itemized grants totaling $1,098,213, out of $10,686,243 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 134 and 190 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ticket to Dream Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (86%), Civil Rights (4%), Crime & Legal (3%).
- Who are Ticket to Dream Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: iFoster Inc ($597k), The Translational Genomics Research Institute ($500k), The Seena Magowitz Foundation Inc ($483k).
- Does Ticket to Dream Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ticket to Dream Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include In-N-Out Burgers Foundation, National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association, Sacramento Region Community Foundation.
- Where is Ticket to Dream Foundation based?
- Ticket to Dream Foundation is based in CA.
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