Texas · Nonprofit
Brazoria County Dream Center Inc
Brazoria County Dream Center Inc (Texas) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,143,671 to it, the largest being United Way of Brazoria County ($778,382). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $26k
What Brazoria County Dream Center Inc does
Mission
The Brazoria County Dream Center BCDC provides avenues of healing to the souls of hurting humanity in Brazoria County, TX. We address both the physical and emotional needs of the community. We accomplish this by focusing on rebuilding hope, renewing lives, and restoring dreams.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Dream Pantry - A client choice food pantry is designed just like a grocery store. Individuals are issued a digital E-Card with points that are uploaded every month. Points are calculated according to the number of individuals in the household. Each household is assigned one E-Card and is responsible to budget their points throughout the month. Each household can shop once every week. Special consideration is granted to those who are homeless. Senior Deliveries - Providing home delivery boxes of food to Seniors 70+, who have a disability, and/or have no transportation. They will receive enough food for one month. Food is delivered every 3rd Tuesday of the month. *During 2024, 2,517 households received food and other items for their families, 61 Households received Senior Home Deliveries and 2,460 CSFP Boxes were distributed.
$2,173,730 spent74% of program spendingDream Gifts - Providing Christmas gifts and wrapping paper to Brazoria County families who have had a life crisis that prevents the parents or guardians from providing gifts for their children, age infant through 15 years old. The event is the 3rd Saturday in December. Registration is required and begins the first Tuesday in November. A Parent Request Form will be available online. Parents will be notified if they are needing an in-person appointment for addition information or they will receive a link to complete the registration process, Parents need a Photo ID, Proof of Address, Income, and each registered child needs a birth Certificate. In 2024 - 1,317 Children in 512 households received Christmas assistance. We distribute an average of 11,000 toys and 465 bikes. In addition, 55 Home Delivery Seniors received a special Christmas Gift.
$450,508 spent15% of program spendingDisaster & Crisis Program - Providing assistance to those who are experiencing a natural disaster, hurricane, flooding, or house fire or a life crisis eviction, relocation, or homelessness with resources and referrals. In 2024, over 4,000 individuals received assistance with basic needs and referrals.
$184,002 spent6% of program spendingKidFuel bridges the gap where school meals end every week for 6 school districts across Brazoria County. During 2024-2025, over 700 students were served 127,100 meals.
$89,047 spent3% of program spendingOther programs that provide for the physical and emotional needs of the community
$21,201 spent1% of program spendingBackpack Buddies - Providing backpacks with nutritional food and snacks to children who are going hungry over the weekend. The program fills in the gap where school programs end. The Backpack Buddies program serves 6 school districts within Brazoria County. This is not a self-referred program. The school's Teachers, Counselors and nurses can only refer a student. In 2023 - 805 children received summer Backpack Buddies Bags 3,220 meals and 780 school age children received food during the school year 163,800 meals for school age children going hungry over the weekend BACK 2 SCHOOL BASH Providing school age children who live in Brazoria County with the items needed to start school. Children receive backpacks with school supplies, new tennis shoes, personal care kits and first week of lunches. Collaborating with community partners to provide social services and other community needs. Registration is required, Parents need a Photo ID, Proof of Address and Income, each child being registered needs a birth certificate. In 2023, 1,644 Students 687 households received a backpack filled with school supplies needed to start the first day of school, new tennis shoes, and personal care kits.…
$18,957 spent1% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,937,445.
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 2022 to 2023, from $223k to $539k (+141%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 1% · 2021 5% · 2022 3% · 2023 1% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of Brazoria County Dream Center Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Terri Willis
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $98k → $122k.
6 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Brazoria County Dream Center Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 21 funders by total. 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
Brazoria County Dream Center Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 Brazoria County Dream Center Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 96% · 2019 83% · 2020 94% · 2021 50% · 2022 49% · 2023 97% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
43% of Brazoria County Dream Center Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
96% of Brazoria County Dream Center Inc's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $287k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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
Brazoria County Dream Center Inc has grown faster than half of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Brazoria County Dream Center 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Brazoria County Dream Center Inc?
- Brazoria County Dream Center Inc (Texas) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,143,671 to it, the largest being United Way of Brazoria County ($778,382). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Brazoria County Dream Center Inc have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,143,671 in grants to Brazoria County Dream Center Inc, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Brazoria County Dream Center Inc?
- United Way of Brazoria County is the largest funder on record, with $778,382 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Brazoria County Dream Center Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 21 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing