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DOORS TO DREAM

DOORS TO DREAM (South Carolina) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $568,389 to it, the largest being THE DELOACHE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($476,150). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$148k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$568k
Net assets
$126k
6/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 92%
01What it does

What Doors to Dream does

Mission

Doors to Dream inspires underserved youth to pursue their dreams through student-led service projects, educational programs, and support networks that lead to more equitable and sustainable opportunities for success.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Doors to Dream inspires underserved youth to pursue their dreams through student-led service projects, educational programs, and support networks that lead to more equitable and sustainable opportunities for success.

    $78,624 spent
    60% of program spending
  2. We worked with middle school students to develop their leadership skills and social-emotional intelligence at Simmons-Pinckney and Morningside Middle. Within our group, we created wonderful relationships and saw an increase in

    $52,416 spent
    40% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $131,040.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($78k) Expenses 100 ($34k) Net assets 100 ($44k)2018 Revenue 77 ($60k) Expenses 52 ($17k) Net assets 196 ($87k)2019 Revenue 101 ($79k) Expenses 142 ($48k) Net assets 266 ($118k)2020 Revenue 103 ($81k) Expenses 229 ($77k) Net assets 274 ($121k)2021 Revenue 120 ($94k) Expenses 221 ($74k) Net assets 318 ($141k)2022 Revenue 164 ($127k) Expenses 388 ($130k) Net assets 311 ($138k)2023 Revenue 173 ($135k) Expenses 377 ($127k) Net assets 330 ($146k)2024 Revenue 190 ($148k) Expenses 497 ($167k) Net assets 286 ($126k)
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Revenue (190)Expenses (497)Net assets (286)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $44k to $87k (+96%).

$44k
$87k
$119k
$123k
$142k
$143k
$146k
$126k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of DOORS TO DREAM’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$44k
’17
$43k
’18
$31k
’19
$4k
’20
$19k
’21
−$3k
’22
$8k
’23
−$19k
’24
9.1
months of
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

Samuel J Clements

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

20232024
Listed67
Joined·+1
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $50k → $77k.

5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 DOORS TO DREAM’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

DOORS TO DREAM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

84%
largest funder
90%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 95% · 2020 85% · 2021 97% · 2022 76% · 2023 78% — 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

40% of DOORS TO DREAM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

96% of DOORS TO DREAM's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.

MN
VA
MD
NC
SC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
South Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $58k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DOORS TO DREAM is better cushioned than half of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−13% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve9.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like DOORS TO DREAM

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 South Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 17%Fundraising 4%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

SC

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DOORS TO DREAM: 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 DOORS TO DREAM?
DOORS TO DREAM (South Carolina) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $568,389 to it, the largest being THE DELOACHE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($476,150). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DOORS TO DREAM have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $568,389 in grants to DOORS TO DREAM, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DOORS TO DREAM?
THE DELOACHE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $476,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DOORS TO DREAM find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 16 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