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DREAM CENTER EVANSVILLE

DREAM CENTER EVANSVILLE (Indiana) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,091,675 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($1,087,047). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.7M
Funders on record
35
Grants received
$4.1M
Net assets
$2.1M
23/35 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 62%
01What it does

What Dream Center Evansville does

Mission

To assist at-risk youth and their families to become responsible and self sifficient community members.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization serves children aged 5-18, primarily in the jacobsville area of evansville, indiana, by providing hot meals six times per week as part of a program to provide educational enrichment, peer mentoring, adult mentoring, teaching of bible based morals and values, character building, resilency training, behavior skills development, substance abuse prevention, life enrichment, job readying, and nuturing. The organization advances religious principles by donating to evangelical causes. Additionally, the organization supports an orphanage and outreach ministry near matamoros, mexico.

    $695,788 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $695,788.

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 ($504k) Expenses 100 ($519k) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2018 Revenue 105 ($529k) Expenses 101 ($522k) Net assets 101 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 150 ($758k) Expenses 128 ($665k) Net assets 109 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 234 ($1.2M) Expenses 196 ($1.0M) Net assets 120 ($1.4M)2021 Revenue 248 ($1.2M) Expenses 228 ($1.2M) Net assets 126 ($1.5M)2022 Revenue 277 ($1.4M) Expenses 238 ($1.2M) Net assets 138 ($1.7M)2023 Revenue 489 ($2.5M) Expenses 276 ($1.4M) Net assets 220 ($2.6M)2024 Revenue 336 ($1.7M) Expenses 408 ($2.1M) Net assets 179 ($2.1M)
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Revenue (336)Expenses (408)Net assets (179)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 2022 to 2023, from $2.0M to $2.9M (+47%).

$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.4M
$1.6M
$1.7M
$2.0M
$2.9M
$2.4M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2020 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

91% of DREAM CENTER EVANSVILLE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,744 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.

−$15k
’17
$8k
’18
$93k
’19
$164k
’20
$67k
’21
$163k
’22
$1.0M
’23
−$421k
’24
1.5
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Listed13131413121298
Joined·+9+2+4+8+0+1+2
No longer listed·9159043
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 17 funders, grant income rose $1k → $1.5M.

9 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 EVANSVILLE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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 EVANSVILLE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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

55% 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 EVANSVILLE.

27%
largest funder
53%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 52% · 2019 61% · 2020 42% · 2021 42% · 2022 26% · 2023 65% — 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

56% of DREAM CENTER EVANSVILLE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

86% of DREAM CENTER EVANSVILLE's grant income comes from Indiana funders.

IL
WI
IN
OH
TN
DC
GA
TX

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

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’23
Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $941k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DREAM CENTER EVANSVILLE has grown faster than half of the 2,399 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−25% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)19% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,399 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like DREAM CENTER EVANSVILLE

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 Indiana

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

33% of spending goes to programs.

Program 33%Management 54%Fundraising 13%

Governance

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

Public support

97%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IN

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Questions and answers

Who funds DREAM CENTER EVANSVILLE?
DREAM CENTER EVANSVILLE (Indiana) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,091,675 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($1,087,047). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DREAM CENTER EVANSVILLE have?
IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $4,091,675 in grants to DREAM CENTER EVANSVILLE, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DREAM CENTER EVANSVILLE?
LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,087,047 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DREAM CENTER EVANSVILLE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 35 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