Wisconsin · Nonprofit
DESIGNING DREAMS
DESIGNING DREAMS (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,888 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2022
- $101k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $58k
- Net assets
- $51k
What Designing Dreams does
Mission
The corporation is organized exclusively for religious charitable scientific literary educational purposes within organizations optional for the meaning of Section 501c3 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 or the corresponding provisions of any others future United States Internal Revenue Law hereinafter referred to as the Code Designing Dreams mission is to create healing spaces for children with cancer bringing hope and happiness to their families
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Program
0
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Kelly ODonnell
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $25k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 DESIGNING DREAMS’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
DESIGNING DREAMS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 DESIGNING DREAMS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 70% · 2022 89% · 2023 99% — 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
87% of DESIGNING DREAMS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $8k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k 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
DESIGNING DREAMS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 19,864 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 19,864 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2022
Organizations like DESIGNING DREAMS
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 DESIGNING DREAMS: 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 DESIGNING DREAMS?
- DESIGNING DREAMS (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,888 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DESIGNING DREAMS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $57,888 in grants to DESIGNING DREAMS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DESIGNING DREAMS?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DESIGNING DREAMS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2022–2022), 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