North Dakota · Nonprofit
Dream Center Bismarck
Dream Center Bismarck (North Dakota) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $643,521 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($260,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $644k
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Dream Center Bismarck does
Mission
Our mission is to connect people to a community of support by offering free resources and services that address immediate and long-term needs. Partner agencies and the Dream Center will work in many different areas including nutrition, employment, and health & dental as well as areas of poverty, addiction, abuse, and generational dysfunction. The Dream Center serves as a resource center focused on working together with others in our community to find creative solutions through community outreach programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Block Parties were started in June of last year. These fun events are meant to bring families from the neighborhood to the Dream Center and build community. Activities include crafts, outdoor fun (weather permitting), live music, a free meal, games, prizes and an opportunity for our partnering organizations to take part and eductate our guests about their free services.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
The Dream Center is a faith-based charitable organization dedicated to supporting the Bismarck-Mandan community. Our mission is to bridge the gap for those in need by providing free food in the form of prepared meals and groceries, while offering essential resources and support. Through collaboration with partner agencies, we offer comprehensive assistance in areas such as nutrition, employment, healthcare, addiction recovery, and family education. Our goal is to foster life-changing transformation while meeting immediate needs. Our Adopt-a-Block mobile grocery distribution program provides food to high-need neighborhoods while our facility provides on-site meals and groceries. Supported by local donations from local grocery and retail stores and distribution programs, Dream Center Bismarck is open 365 days a year.Beyond meals, we connect people with critical services, including health screenings, job assistance, and recovery programs, in partnership with organizations like Northland Health, AARP Tax Aide, Job Service ND, and Bridging the Dental Gap. The impact of these efforts is reflected in testimonies from community members who have found stability, employment, and hope…
$3,443,501 spentof which $2,462,154 as grants$419 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,443,501.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $882k to $4.1M (+363%).
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: 2022 2% · 2024 1% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Dream Center Bismarck’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 6 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
James Barnhardt
President/Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $30k → $83k.
8 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 Dream Center Bismarck’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 14 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
Dream Center Bismarck leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
41% 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 Dream Center Bismarck.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 66% · 2022 40% · 2023 46% — 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.
Where its funders are
Dream Center Bismarck draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside North Dakota, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $212k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Dream Center Bismarck 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 Dream Center Bismarck
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 North Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Dream Center Bismarck: 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 Dream Center Bismarck?
- Dream Center Bismarck (North Dakota) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $643,521 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($260,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Dream Center Bismarck have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $643,521 in grants to Dream Center Bismarck, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Dream Center Bismarck?
- OTTO BREMER TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $260,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Dream Center Bismarck find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Dakota. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 14 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