Minnesota · Nonprofit
Dream of Wild Health
Dream of Wild Health (Minnesota) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,812,038 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,005,150). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 78
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $8.7M
What Dream of Wild Health does
Mission
The mission of Dream of Wild Health is to restore health and well-being in the Native community by recovering knowledge of and access to healthy Indigenous foods, medicines, and lifeways. We do this by: creating culturally-based opportunities for youth employment, entrepreneurship and leadership; increasing access to indigenous foods through farm production, sales and distribution; and community organizing and outreach around reclaiming cultural traditions, healthy indigenous food, cooking skills, and policy and systems change. Our programs impact over 15,000 people annually from our youngest community members to our oldest. DWH is one of the leaders of a groundswell movement to reclaim Indigenous sovereignty through food.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Farm & Food Access - The food grown on our farm's fields, orchards, and prairies is distributed primarily in the Native community through: an affordable Indigenous Food Share (CSA model); a Farmers Market in Minneapolis; wholesale to Native chefs and restaurants; to youth and families at our programs and events; and through donations to our community partners. In recent years, we have increased production and donations, added a delivery option, developed nutrition education programming, and partnered to deliver fresh produce to youth and families in our community. In 2023, the farm grew over 26,000 pounds of food, including 9,500 pounds donated to the community. Our Indigenous Food Share (IFS) was reimagined from a traditional CSA model to a more focused approach - the shares are offered only to Native families and have various payment methods to reduce barriers in joining: sliding scale, payment plan, and work share options. We also introduced new opportunities in 2023 - all IFS members had access to our Reclaiming Lifeways and Adopting Plant Relatives programs, two additions to our IFS to help us grow even stronger connections with each other, our other-than-human relatives, and…
$595,699 spent$60,061 earned by the program46% of program spendingNative Youth Education and Leadership - This program provides culturally-based lessons for youth, ages 8 to 18. The farm offers a safe and creative learning environment where they learn about regenerative gardening, healthy foods preparation and nutrition, and Native cultural traditions while gaining employment and leadership skills. Programming offers year-round leadership development where youth lead advocacy, outreach, and training through an Indigenous lens. The farm provides opportunities for our youth to develop the skills needed to succeed in school and as adults, including opportunities for paid internships and employment. Programs include: - Cora's Kids, ages 8 to 12, are given an introduction to work ethic and soft skills. - Garden Warriors, ages 13-18, learn about entrepreneurship and work ethic by working farm to market and represent DWH at a Farmer's Market in a neighborhood convenient for the Native community, earning a stipend that is supported with soft skills and financial literacy training. - Youth Leaders, ages 13 to 18, participate in year-round community advocacy and educational events where they gain experience in customer service through food demos with a…
$402,314 spent$3,040 earned by the program31% of program spendingNetwork Leadership - Working with partners is vital to the success of our programs as we rely on the skills and expertise of other organizations to complement the work we do in our community. Our network building and coalition leadership work helps us influence long-term systems change in order to improve the overall health of the Native community. Dream of Wild Health is the lead organizer of the Indigenous Food Network (IFN), whose mission is to rebuild sovereign food systems within the intertribal urban Native community through collaboration. The long-term goals of the network include increasing access to healthier and more culturally-relevant foods for the Native community in Minneapolis, improving economic opportunity among Native food producers, chefs and restaurants, cultivating community connectedness, and changing the systems and policies that lead to continuing inequities.
$288,006 spent$3,040 earned by the program22% of program spendingFarm & Food Access: the food grown at the farm is distributed primarily to the Native community through DWH programs, Indigenous food shares (CSA model), wholesale, and donations to partners. The farm recently grew from 10 to 30 acres and we are dreaming into the vision of the new land. DWH is a home to numerous and diverse Indigenous seeds through our Seed Stewardship program. Our goal is to ensure a diverse, viable seed stock for future generations, to grow seed as food to reconnect this generation to an Indigenous diet, to rematriate seeds to their Tribal homes, and to develop reliable paths of resource sharing to ensure the sustainability of this work into the future. Farm Expansion: In March 2020, with the generous support of our community and funders, DWH purchased an additional 20 acres of land on the same street as its existing 10-acre farm, totaling 30-acres of farmland. Expansion efforts include development of a rich, bio-diverse community of plant relatives and earthwork development to support future programming efforts. With ongoing capital support, this space will allow us to expand our growing capacity, create value-added products and provide more space for our…
$15,025 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,301,044.
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.
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 $4.3M to $6.9M (+59%).
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 1% · 2020 7% · 2021 6% · 2022 7% · 2023 6% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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
Neely Snyder
Executive Director
Board chair
Joy Persall
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 46 funders, grant income rose $246k → $2.6M.
16 of 78 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 of Wild Health’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 78 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 of Wild Health has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 9% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
52% 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 of Wild Health.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 36% · 2019 18% · 2020 13% · 2021 23% · 2022 15% · 2023 15% — 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
53% of Dream of Wild Health's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
61% of Dream of Wild Health's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Organizations like Dream of Wild Health
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Dream of Wild Health: 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 of Wild Health?
- Dream of Wild Health (Minnesota) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,812,038 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,005,150). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Dream of Wild Health have?
- IRS filings report 78 organizations giving $10,812,038 in grants to Dream of Wild Health, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Dream of Wild Health?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,005,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Dream of Wild Health find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 78 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