Illinois · Nonprofit
BUILD A DREAM
BUILD A DREAM (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $139,035 to it, the largest being JACKSON KEMPER FOUNDATION ($117,955). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $120k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $139k
- Net assets
- $370k
What Build a Dream does
Mission
Financial assistance to underprivileged youth and families
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Assisted 60 families and elderly with needed food and supplies
$32,384 spent27% of program spendingProvided needed supplies to area community center Assisted families with needed home repairs and medical needs
$13,257 spent11% of program spendingProvided scholarships for 70 students to attend middle school through college
$46,069 spent38% of program spendingRepaired water cisterns to stop and prevent leaks
$20,119 spent17% of program spendingProvided funds for college student to design and build machine to assist in future cistern cleaning projects
$8,072 spent7% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $119,901.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $278k to $353k (+27%).
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.
76% of BUILD A DREAM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $43k.
3 of 5 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 BUILD A DREAM’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
BUILD A DREAM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 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
100% of BUILD A DREAM's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
BUILD A DREAM's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BUILD A DREAM
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BUILD A DREAM: 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 BUILD A DREAM?
- BUILD A DREAM (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $139,035 to it, the largest being JACKSON KEMPER FOUNDATION ($117,955). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BUILD A DREAM have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $139,035 in grants to BUILD A DREAM, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUILD A DREAM?
- JACKSON KEMPER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $117,955 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUILD A DREAM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 5 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