Florida · Nonprofit
CHILDREN'S DREAM FUND INC
CHILDREN'S DREAM FUND INC (Florida) receives grants from 96 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,245,194 to it, the largest being FRANCIS AND GERTRUDE LEVETT FOUNDATION ($210,000). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 96
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What Children's Dream Fund Inc does
Mission
The sole mission of the Children's Dream Fund Inc. Is to make dreams come true for children with life threatening illnesses living in west central florida, and to provide lasting memories for the children and families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The children's dream fund entered its 44th year of making dreams come true for children with life-threatening illnesses living throughout west central florida. The children's dream fund completed 132 dreams in 2025 with 130 in process at the end of the year. Children are referred to the children's dream fund by johns hopkins all children's, tampa general, st. Joseph's children's, golisano, shands, arnold palmer, and sabal palms children's center. The children's dream fund policy is to never deny a deserving child a dream-come-true, and to provide age-appropriate dreams in a timely manner. Dreams include the entire family, and the goal is to make the process as stress-free as possible for the child and the family, and to create memories that last a lifetime. Children and their families work with the dream department, who are fulltime employees for the children's dream fund, and help plan and implement the dream. Dreams include trips, cruises, and meetings with celebrities, shopping or a tangible item such as computers, bedroom makeovers, musical instruments. In addition to fulfilling every child's dream, stewardship is of utmost importance. Donated items and services can help lower…
$2,089,809 spentof which $1,529,679 as grants$2,140,368 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,089,809.
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.
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 $1.9M to $2.7M (+42%).
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: 2021 4% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Amanda Walker
Executive director
Board chair
Monica Christopher
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $130k → $299k.
15 of 96 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 CHILDREN'S DREAM FUND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 96 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
CHILDREN'S DREAM FUND INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 9% of grant income, and it takes 11 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 11 funders to its left
42% 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 CHILDREN'S DREAM FUND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 25% · 2019 39% · 2020 16% · 2021 20% · 2022 11% · 2023 13% — 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
33% of CHILDREN'S DREAM FUND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
79% of CHILDREN'S DREAM FUND INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $481k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Government funding CHILDREN'S DREAM FUND INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $181 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $181
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CHILDREN'S DREAM FUND 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
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 CHILDREN'S DREAM FUND 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 CHILDREN'S DREAM FUND INC?
- CHILDREN'S DREAM FUND INC (Florida) receives grants from 96 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,245,194 to it, the largest being FRANCIS AND GERTRUDE LEVETT FOUNDATION ($210,000). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILDREN'S DREAM FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 96 organizations giving $2,245,194 in grants to CHILDREN'S DREAM FUND INC, 57 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S DREAM FUND INC?
- FRANCIS AND GERTRUDE LEVETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $210,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN'S DREAM FUND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 96 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