Arizona · Nonprofit
Delivering Dreams of Arizona
Delivering Dreams of Arizona (Arizona) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,884,267 to it, the largest being BHHS Legacy Foundation ($1,483,032). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $5.9M
- Net assets
- $7.1M
What Delivering Dreams of Arizona does
Mission
Delivering Dreams of Arizona improves the lives of children through philanthropic programs that fulfill basic needs, foster self-esteem, and enhance quality of life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Delivering Dreams Bus program fosters self-esteem and self-confidence in children resulting in a more successful educational experience. This program provides basic clothing needs for children by outfitting them with a complete school wardrobe. For many children, these are the first new school clothes they have ever owned. The organization served approximately 15,500 children during the year.
$2,418,041 spent98% of program spendingThe HUGS Program works with local hospitals, Phoenix Police and Fire departments, and other agencies to put smiles on the faces of traumatized children by providing the comfort of a Delivering Dreams of Arizona Teddy Bear stitched with love from Chapter members.
$32,153 spent1% of program spendingThe Wee Help distributes layette gift bags for infants of new parents in need, with the basics for their baby, including blankets, clothing, and other essential supplies.
$11,860 spent0% of program spendingLiteracy Program promotes student and family literacy by augmenting the educational resources of Title I elementary schools. Thousands of books reach the hands of children through these gifts.
$9,194 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,471,248.
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 2024 to 2025, from $6.5M to $9.7M (+49%).
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: 2017 4% · 2018 3% · 2021 8% · 2022 12% · 2023 4% · 2024 16% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of Delivering Dreams of Arizona’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Aimee Runyon
Chief Executive Officer
Board chair
Barbara Hood
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $111k → $1.2M.
8 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 Delivering Dreams of Arizona’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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
Delivering Dreams of Arizona has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
53% 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 Delivering Dreams of Arizona.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 61% · 2019 57% · 2020 45% · 2021 30% · 2022 31% · 2023 34% — 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
70% of Delivering Dreams of Arizona's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
70% of Delivering Dreams of Arizona's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $481k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
Delivering Dreams of Arizona 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 Delivering Dreams of Arizona
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Delivering Dreams of Arizona: 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 Delivering Dreams of Arizona?
- Delivering Dreams of Arizona (Arizona) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,884,267 to it, the largest being BHHS Legacy Foundation ($1,483,032). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Delivering Dreams of Arizona have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $5,884,267 in grants to Delivering Dreams of Arizona, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Delivering Dreams of Arizona?
- BHHS Legacy Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,483,032 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Delivering Dreams of Arizona find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 50 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