Wisconsin · Nonprofit
BIG DREAMERS UNITED
BIG DREAMERS UNITED (Wisconsin) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,000 to it, the largest being PROPEL NONPROFITS ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $105k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $65k
- Net assets
- $101k
What Big Dreamers United does
Programs
To help other non-profits with their marketing by video production. The videos are 15 seconds to 5 minutes and ranging from p.s.a., event promos, explainers or capital campaigns. Our largest charitable activity was a video production for the domestic abuse intervention service (dais). Through collaboration, we were able to help them spread awareness of their message and cause by producing the video, hiring the actors, make-up artists and cameramen all at no cost to the dais.
$0 spentTo help other non-profits with their marketing by providing custom still photography. These can be used in digital and physical forms, to add visuals to the non-profits cause, campaigns and success stories.
$5,000 spentTo help other non-profits with their marketing is graphic design. The designs range from brochures, posters, tri-folds, annual reports, print ads and logos. These can be campaign specific or for general use by the non-profit.
$5,000 spentTo help other non-profits with their marketing is providing radio/audio. The designs range from brochures, posters, tri-folds, annual reports, print ads and logos. These can be campaign specific or for general use by the non-profit.
$0 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2018 to 2019, from $49k to $169k (+244%).
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.
Chief executive
Leola Culver
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $50k → $10k.
From the IRS filings of BIG DREAMERS UNITED’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.
How concentrated its funding is
BIG DREAMERS UNITED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BIG DREAMERS UNITED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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
BIG DREAMERS UNITED draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
BIG DREAMERS UNITED is better cushioned than half of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BIG DREAMERS UNITED
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BIG DREAMERS UNITED: 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 BIG DREAMERS UNITED?
- BIG DREAMERS UNITED (Wisconsin) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,000 to it, the largest being PROPEL NONPROFITS ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIG DREAMERS UNITED have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $65,000 in grants to BIG DREAMERS UNITED.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG DREAMERS UNITED?
- PROPEL NONPROFITS is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG DREAMERS UNITED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 3 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