Texas · Nonprofit
DARE TO DREAM CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
DARE TO DREAM CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,385 to it, the largest being AMERICA'S CHARITIES ($21,125). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $104k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $93k
What Dare to Dream Children's Foundation does
Mission
Dare to Dream Children's Foundation's primary exempt purpose is to provide educational, cultural and social opportunities to troubled youth.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Dare to Dream Children's Foundation impacts approximately 1,000 troubled youth and adults per year. Many have been abused and neglected and do not have a father present in their lives. Partnerships have been developed with juvenile departments, state youth commissions, youth shelters, group homes, and orphanages. We are impacting the lives of single abused mothers and the homeless with life coaching and prayer. Dare to dream was one of three charities awarded a resolution provided by the united nations through dallas county to provide life-skills, education, and ministry through role model speakers, cultural experiences, and one-on-one mentoring.approximately 40 volunteers have participated in the foundation's programs and activities during 2024.
$63,433 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $63,433.
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.
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 $65k to $96k (+47%).
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.
100% of DARE TO DREAM CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $6k → $8k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 DARE TO DREAM CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 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
DARE TO DREAM CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 DARE TO DREAM CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 94% · 2021 91% · 2022 99% · 2023 72% — 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.
Where its funders are
DARE TO DREAM CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
DARE TO DREAM CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin 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 DARE TO DREAM CHILDREN'S 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 DARE TO DREAM CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: 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 DARE TO DREAM CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION?
- DARE TO DREAM CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,385 to it, the largest being AMERICA'S CHARITIES ($21,125). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DARE TO DREAM CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $40,385 in grants to DARE TO DREAM CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DARE TO DREAM CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION?
- AMERICA'S CHARITIES is the largest funder on record, with $21,125 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DARE TO DREAM CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 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