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DREAM OUT LOUD CENTER INC

DREAM OUT LOUD CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $476,342 to it, the largest being William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust ($137,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$218k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$476k
Net assets
$69k
7/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 83%
01What it does

What Dream Out Loud Center Inc does

Mission

The organization provides encouragement and motivation to southern new england students from elementary thru high school age to continue with and complete their formal education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. On-site after-school programs for elementary school children combining recreational and educational activities to promote social and academic success. Workshops in music and magazine production for teenagers to encourage self-confidence and responsibility.

    $150,208 spent$243 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $150,208.

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 ($115k) Expenses 100 ($112k) Net assets 100 ($14k)2018 Revenue 102 ($117k) Expenses 110 ($123k) Net assets 59 ($8k)2019 Revenue 104 ($119k) Expenses 108 ($121k) Net assets 49 ($7k)2020 Revenue 99 ($114k) Expenses 93 ($104k) Net assets 123 ($17k)2021 Revenue 110 ($126k) Expenses 110 ($123k) Net assets 148 ($21k)2022 Revenue 108 ($124k) Expenses 112 ($126k) Net assets 139 ($19k)2023 Revenue 146 ($168k) Expenses 129 ($144k) Net assets 311 ($44k)2024 Revenue 159 ($183k) Expenses 168 ($188k) Net assets 277 ($39k)2025 Revenue 190 ($218k) Expenses 169 ($189k) Net assets 490 ($69k)
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Revenue (190)Expenses (169)Net assets (490)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 2024 to 2025, from $42k to $72k (+72%).

$19k
$11k
$13k
$20k
$24k
$24k
$46k
$42k
$72k
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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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2025 58%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of DREAM OUT LOUD CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$3k
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−$6k
’18
−$1k
’19
$10k
’20
$3k
’21
−$1k
’22
$24k
’23
−$5k
’24
$30k
’25
3.0
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reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $28k → $62k.

2 of 10 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 OUT LOUD CENTER 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 OUT LOUD CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% 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

44% 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 OUT LOUD CENTER INC.

29%
largest funder
70%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 47% · 2019 44% · 2020 45% · 2021 38% · 2022 49% · 2023 32% — 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

100% of DREAM OUT LOUD CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

96% of DREAM OUT LOUD CENTER INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA
RI
MO

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

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $147k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 OUT LOUD CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Months of reserve3.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding DREAM OUT LOUD CENTER INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $47k on record.

State$47k
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  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$47k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like DREAM OUT LOUD CENTER 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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 8%Fundraising 12%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds DREAM OUT LOUD CENTER INC?
DREAM OUT LOUD CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $476,342 to it, the largest being William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust ($137,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DREAM OUT LOUD CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $476,342 in grants to DREAM OUT LOUD CENTER INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DREAM OUT LOUD CENTER INC?
William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust is the largest funder on record, with $137,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DREAM OUT LOUD CENTER INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 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