Minnesota · Nonprofit
ACHIEVING DREAMS INC
ACHIEVING DREAMS INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $900 to it, the largest being MCKESSON FOUNDATION INC ($900). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $900
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Achieving Dreams Inc does
Mission
To provide financial help for the poor, distressed, and financially overburdened families and individuals, so they may participate in organized activities that build positive self-esteem, assist in personal development, allow for artistic inspiration, and/or advance education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization receives the majority of its funds by conducting conscession stand operations at major sporting events in the state of minnesota, using a volunteer workforce. From those contract payments the organization was able to do the following:provided financial help for the poor, distressed, and financially overburdened families and individuals, so youth could participate in organized activities (e.g. Dance classes, music lessons, and sports like youth football and gymnastics), build their self-esteem, participate in personal development and artistic expression, and/or advance educationally (e.g. Tuition costs from preschool to college). Achieving dreams helped over 1,000 young people in 2024 to get or stay involved in meaningful activities that both improved the individual as well as the community as a whole - by combating community deterioration and juvenile delinquency; getting or keeping youth in positive environments and safe places, avoiding the ill effects of idle, unsupervised time, and negative influences like gangs, drugs, and delinquency; and building a greater sense of community.
$3,477,876 spentof which $3,384,445 as grants$4,078,519 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,477,876.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.4M to $2.3M (+67%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
0% of ACHIEVING DREAMS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of ACHIEVING DREAMS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
ACHIEVING DREAMS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ACHIEVING DREAMS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ACHIEVING DREAMS INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACHIEVING DREAMS INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ACHIEVING DREAMS INC?
- ACHIEVING DREAMS INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $900 to it, the largest being MCKESSON FOUNDATION INC ($900). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACHIEVING DREAMS INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $900 in grants to ACHIEVING DREAMS INC.
- Who is the largest funder of ACHIEVING DREAMS INC?
- MCKESSON FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACHIEVING DREAMS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing