· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 165 grants below total $1,098,213 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $10,686,243 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $9,588,030 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k131 grants · $639k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $459k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILY ALTERNATIVES | $22,500 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG FAMILIES | $19,500 |
| KIDS MATTER INC | $19,000 |
| ONE MORE CHILD | $18,500 |
| ARROW CHILD & FAMILY MINISTRIES | $18,400 |
| FOSTERING HOPE | $17,000 |
| OLIVE CREST - LOS ANGELES | $16,500 |
| KVC NEBRASKA | $16,500 |
| THE VILLAGES OF INDIANA | $16,000 |
| EMBRELLA | $16,000 |
| DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER | $15,000 |
| FOSTER FORWARD | $15,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA | $14,500 |
| CHILD ADVOCATES DENVER CASA | $13,500 |
| YOUTH VILLAGES - MIDDLE TENNESSEE | $13,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $8.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
233 repeat relationships — 157 still active in FY2025, 76 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- IIiFoster Inc4× · 2018–2024 · $597k · revenue +314%
- TSTHE SEENA MAGOWITZ FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $483k · revenue +27%
- TTREEHOUSE9× · 2017–2025 · $353k · revenue +172%
Funded once
- TTTHE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +32%
- AMAUNT MARTHA'S HEALTH AND WELLNESS INCone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +5%
- DCDestiny Community Servicesgraduated2× · 2020–2022 · $68k · revenue +247%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of christian family care is to strengthen families and serve at-risk children in the name of jesus christ. the outcome of our work results in building flourishing families and communities focusing on three pillars: preserve,…
Ark Homes Foster Family Agency is committed to creating a safe, supportive, and nurturing environment for children by matching each child's needs with an appropriate family-based placement and services that promote stability, healing, and…
Our Mission is to take the lead in protecting children entrusted to our care or protection from further abuse and neglect by carefully selecting the most qualified and dedicated foster parents available to operate foster homes for the…
California Alliance of Caregivers represents the voices of relative and non-relative caregivers to promote the well-being of children in foster care. California Alliance of Caregivers provides training information support and advocacy for…
Foster Kinship supports all kinship families throughout Nevada. We assist grandparents, relatives, and fictive kin who are raising children through five core programs: 1- Enhanced Kinship Navigator Program - Provides intensive support to…
A family for every child (affec) is dedicated to finding permanent and loving adoptive families for waiting foster children. to accomplish our mission, we focus on finding loving and permanent families for children who the foster care…
To provide needed services for abused, neglected, and vulnerable children and their families.
Child Advocacy Services
All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)
Advocate in the judicial system for the best interest of victims of abuse and neglect in foster care, giving the child a voice in court and moving the child to a safe and permanent home.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fosteradopt Connect Inc and the most unlike its peers is Seattle University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
254 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 254 of the 257 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds iFoster Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE SEENA MAGOWITZ FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds OLIVE CREST ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER WE RISE ↗
- Who funds DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds PROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds KVC BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE INC ↗
- Who funds FOSTER FORWARD ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK FOUNDLING ↗
- Who funds ANGEL REACH ↗
- Who funds FOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVE FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds EmbrellaInc ↗
- Who funds ENNIS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CASA - HAWAII ↗
- Who funds KIDS MATTER INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA'S CHILDREN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KIDS TO LOVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRESSLEY RIDGE ↗
- Who funds CASA OF JACKSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY AND FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONES OF CARE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ALTERNATIVES ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP TO BELONG ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOPE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FELIX ORGANIZATION - ADOPTEES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds EVERY CHILD INC ↗
- Who funds The Villages of Indiana Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA YOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN HAVE OPTIONS IN CARING ENVIRONMENTS INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAS ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ticket to Dream Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Morrison Child and Family Services — 91% of income from government
- Connecticut Alliance of Foster and Adoptive Families Inc — 90% of income from government
- Children and Families First — 87% of income from government
- Christian Community Placement Center — 52% of income from government
- Voices for Children Foundation Inc — 48% of income from government
- Casa of Baltimore County Inc — 38% of income from government
- Children's Services of Roxbury Inc — 35% of income from government
- Casa-Voices for Children — 20% of income from government
- The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
- Casa of Jackson County Inc — 0% of income from government
- Safe Children Coalition Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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