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BREES DREAM FOUNDATION

BREES DREAM FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,851,158 to it, the largest being TRUEU INC ($673,379). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.1M
Funders on record
29
Grants received
$2.9M
Net assets
$-75023
5/29 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 31%
01What it does

What Brees Dream Foundation does

Mission

Improving the quality of life for cancer patients. Provide care, education and other opportunities for children and families in need.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Build strong academy: funding for the academy that helps create a skilled construction workforce in the greater new orleans area through hands on construction training and related trades

    $741,484 spentof which $741,484 as grants
    63% of program spending
  2. Bastion community for the care of and empowering of veterans and their families to achieve resilience and whole health.

    $250,000 spentof which $250,000 as grants
    21% of program spending
  3. Junior achievement foundation to help young people gain the knowledge and skills they need to own their economic success, plan for their futures, and make smart academic and economic choices.

    $173,593 spentof which $173,593 as grants
    15% of program spending
  4. Other charitable programs

    $8,405 spentof which $8,405 as grants
    1% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,173,482.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.3M) Expenses 100 ($2.7M) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2018 Revenue 80 ($1.9M) Expenses 57 ($1.5M) Net assets 125 ($1.5M)2019 Revenue 75 ($1.7M) Expenses 60 ($1.6M) Net assets 141 ($1.7M)2020 Revenue 176 ($4.1M) Expenses 186 ($4.9M) Net assets 75 ($912k)2021 Revenue 44 ($1.0M) Expenses 41 ($1.1M) Net assets 16 ($200k)2022 Revenue 92 ($2.2M) Expenses 92 ($2.4M) Net assets -25 ($-307395)2023 Revenue 56 ($1.3M) Expenses 41 ($1.1M) Net assets 14 ($177k)2024 Revenue 46 ($1.1M) Expenses 50 ($1.3M) Net assets -6 ($-75023)
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Revenue (46)Expenses (50)Net assets (-6)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.7M to $917k (−47%).

$1.2M
$1.5M
$1.7M
$917k
$602k
$345k
$599k
$733k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

142% of BREES DREAM FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,053 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$320k
’17
$341k
’18
$135k
’19
−$815k
’20
−$60k
’21
−$287k
’22
$226k
’23
−$252k
’24
6.1
months of
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.

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Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $101k → $125k.

7 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 BREES DREAM FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 28 of 29 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

BREES DREAM FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

73% 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 BREES DREAM FOUNDATION.

24%
largest funder
59%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 61% · 2019 66% · 2020 50% · 2021 51% · 2022 91% · 2023 40% — diversifying over time.

“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

13% of BREES DREAM FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 17% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

BREES DREAM FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 12 states in all.

MI
NY
MA
NV
IN
CA
CO
AZ
TN
LA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $285k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BREES DREAM FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−23% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve6.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−10% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like BREES DREAM FOUNDATION

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 Ohio

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 12%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
33%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds BREES DREAM FOUNDATION?
BREES DREAM FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,851,158 to it, the largest being TRUEU INC ($673,379). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BREES DREAM FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $2,851,158 in grants to BREES DREAM FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BREES DREAM FOUNDATION?
TRUEU INC is the largest funder on record, with $673,379 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BREES DREAM FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 29 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