Ohio · Nonprofit
DAYTON DREAM CENTER
DAYTON DREAM CENTER (Ohio) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,125 to it, the largest being THE DAYTON FOUNDATION ($30,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $84k
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Dayton Dream Center does
Mission
Our purpose is to connect the people of dayton to a community of support by addressing immediate and long-term needs in the areas of poverty, addiction, education, abuse, joblessness, and community re-entry. More than 20 years ago, the dream of the Dayton Dream Center was born. Pastor pat and jackie murray and their congregation, living word church, located in vandalia, ohio, have run feeding programs and have served the adults and children of dayton using a truck and volunteers. The current facility was fully funded by the congregants of the their church and surrounding community. Over four million dollars were raised for the project from 2018-2022 and the building was renovated for its purpose and without debt. In july of 2022, the doors were officially opened. We began with very simple feeding programs and the intention of services being added as we could staff and support them. In the first year, over 11,000 visits were made by guests from the surrounding community around third and
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Dc diner - the Dayton Dream Center works every week to address the need of hunger by cooking and distributing hot meals to people in downtown dayton. Meals are served directly out of the dream center building on mondays 12- 1pm, wednesday evenings 5:30-6:30pm, and saturday 1-2 pm. Saturday meals also include grocery/food donations to guests as available. 15,484 meals were served june 2024-july 2025. Dayton Dream Center is planning to increase the number of guests served this coming year. Adopt-a-block program addresses addiction, homelessness, food insecurity, and health barriers dayton. Adopt-a-block is a monthly outreach that deploys volunteers to knock on doors in targeted blocks, offering yard work, grocery delivery, prayer, and referrals to ddc programs (food pantry, roadmap 2 recovery, mobile medical unit). The hope food truck provides free meals, hygiene kits, and resource information in a welcoming setup with tents/tables. The program serves the 2,574 residents of census tract 39113002300 (median age 35.5, household income 34,868), prioritizing low-income families, children in poverty (60.8%), seniors (15.9% poverty), individuals with disabilities, single-female-headed…
$498,353 spent63% of program spendingSuds n duds program - on-site showers, clothing, and laundry ministry. Our laundry facility is equipped with 4 commercial washers and dryers, shower rooms, and a clothing area stocked with men's, women's and children's clothing and shoes. Blankets, coats, hats, gloves and hand warmers are also available during winter months. Shampoo, body soap, wash clothes, towels, laundry soap and fabric softner is also provided. Guests can schedule an appointment for suds n duds services in person or over the phone. Days of operation are tuesday and thursday 12-4:30pm (by appointment only). 3,715 individuals served from june 2024-june 2025. We provide a hot meal to each guest while they wait on their appointment.
$262,835 spent33% of program spendingDc after school kids program - Dayton Dream Center actively engages the children of east dayton every week during the school year. Our kids program provides a safe space for kids to grow, learn, and have fun together. The center offers tutoring, math and reading programs, as well as games. Snacks, and take-home meals are the kids. Averaged 30 kids per week during the school year and served 2,756 meals from the period of june 2024-june 2025.
$35,044 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $796,232.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $261k to $819k (+214%).
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: 2024 23% · 2025 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of DAYTON DREAM CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 DAYTON DREAM CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 7 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
DAYTON DREAM CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
64% 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 DAYTON DREAM CENTER.
“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
72% of DAYTON DREAM CENTER's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
DAYTON DREAM CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like DAYTON DREAM CENTER
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DAYTON DREAM CENTER?
- DAYTON DREAM CENTER (Ohio) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,125 to it, the largest being THE DAYTON FOUNDATION ($30,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DAYTON DREAM CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $84,125 in grants to DAYTON DREAM CENTER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DAYTON DREAM CENTER?
- THE DAYTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DAYTON DREAM CENTER 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.
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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 2022–2025), and the filings of 7 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