California · Nonprofit
DREAM ORCHESTRA INC
DREAM ORCHESTRA INC (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $327,200 to it, the largest being CHANIL FOUNDATION ($244,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $447k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $327k
- Net assets
- $209k
What Dream Orchestra Inc does
Mission
The purpose of this organization is to provide and serve the local community with musical talents by giving and promoting classical music concerts, educating the community for better understanding of classical music and culture, and holding charity concerts to support the groups in need within the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The purpose of this organization is to provide and serve the local community with musical talents by giving and promoting classical music concerts, educating the community for better understanding of classical music and culture, and holding charity concerts to support the groups in need within the community.
The purpose of the organization/program is to educate classical music and orchestral music to young students. Also, the program gives performance opportunities so students can expend their experience in a wide range of social contacts and behavior. Through weekly rehearsal, students learn and introduce to orchestral repertoire. The group performs for various occasions such as charity events, community events, and annual concerts.
The purpose of this organization is to provide and serve the local community with musical talents by giving and promoting classical music concerts, educating the community for better understanding of classical music and culture, and holding charity concerts to support the groups in need within the community.
$218,454 spentof which $3,000 as grants100% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $218,454.
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 2017 to 2018, from $69k to $131k (+89%).
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.
53% of DREAM ORCHESTRA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $2k → $51k.
From the IRS filings of DREAM ORCHESTRA INC’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.
How concentrated its funding is
DREAM ORCHESTRA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 83% · 2019 91% · 2020 86% · 2021 91% · 2022 88% · 2023 59% — 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
40% of DREAM ORCHESTRA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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 ORCHESTRA INC draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
DREAM ORCHESTRA INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like DREAM ORCHESTRA INC
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
53% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 ORCHESTRA INC: 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 ORCHESTRA INC?
- DREAM ORCHESTRA INC (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $327,200 to it, the largest being CHANIL FOUNDATION ($244,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DREAM ORCHESTRA INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $327,200 in grants to DREAM ORCHESTRA INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DREAM ORCHESTRA INC?
- CHANIL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $244,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DREAM ORCHESTRA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 10 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing