Tennessee · Nonprofit
DREAM BIG FUND TRUST
DREAM BIG FUND TRUST (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,000,000 to it, the largest being BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN ($3,000,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
DREAM BIG FUND TRUST runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Southeast Community Capital Corporation D/B/A Pathway Lendinglocal
- Big Brothers Big Sisters Of Americaportfolio match
- The Ayers Foundation Trustportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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.
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.
0% of DREAM BIG FUND TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of DREAM BIG FUND TRUST’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.
Where its funders are
100% of DREAM BIG FUND TRUST's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Southeast Community Capital Corporation D/B/A Pathway LendinglocalTN · funds 513 organizations near you
- Big Brothers Big Sisters Of Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ayers Foundation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Regions Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stowers Machinery Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Delta Dental of Tennessee Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Youth Collaboratory Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Saslaw Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ballad Healthportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wellmont Health Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Luke 638 Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Eastman Credit Unionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like DREAM BIG FUND TRUST
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Big Brothersbig Sisters of Middle · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DREAM BIG FUND TRUST: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds DREAM BIG FUND TRUST?
- DREAM BIG FUND TRUST (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,000,000 to it, the largest being BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN ($3,000,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DREAM BIG FUND TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $3,000,000 in grants to DREAM BIG FUND TRUST.
- Who is the largest funder of DREAM BIG FUND TRUST?
- BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN is the largest funder on record, with $3,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DREAM BIG FUND TRUST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing