New York · Nonprofit
DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL
DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,061,087 to it, the largest being 50CAN INC ($4,267,800). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $67M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $-1829446
What Dream Charter School does
Mission
Dream's mission is to ensure that all young people recognize their potential and realize their dreams. We level the playing field by investing in the whole child from early childhood to early adulthood.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Program a: elementary school: founded in 2008, dream's unique grow the whole child education model is powered by four distinct, yet interconnected, elements that drive transformative change for youth. Rigorous academics; social-emotional learning; athletics, health, and wellness; and family and community engagement are all equal, crucial parts of the everyday at dream. Elementary scholars in grades k-5 receive extensive support with two teachers in the classroom so that scholars at all levels are able to learn and thrive in a positive environment. Our elementary school curriculum ranges from literacy and math to the arts and physical education. Scholars also have access to dream's award-winning after-school and summer program called real kids. Program b: middle school: dream middle schools serve scholars in grades 6-8. Using a whole child approach and constructivist curriculum, our middle schools prepare students for high performing high schools. Scholars study the fundamentals of math, science, social studies, english language arts, and physical education. Scholars also participate in a wide range of academic and extracurricular activities such as sports, art, music, debate,…
$60,055,857 spentof which $13,612 as grants$48,521,778 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $60,055,857.
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.
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 $9.7M to $187M (+1825%).
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: 2017 9% · 2018 11% · 2019 11% · 2020 14% · 2021 28% · 2022 23% · 2023 24% · 2024 23% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
27% of DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Ashish Doshi
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $320k → $3.7M.
8 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 CHARTER SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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 CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% 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 CHARTER SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 82% · 2019 82% · 2020 41% · 2021 46% · 2022 57% · 2023 48% — 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
37% of DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
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
DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 CHARTER SCHOOL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL: 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 CHARTER SCHOOL?
- DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,061,087 to it, the largest being 50CAN INC ($4,267,800). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $15,061,087 in grants to DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL?
- 50CAN INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,267,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 34 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