Louisiana · Nonprofit
DREAM TEACHERS
DREAM TEACHERS (Louisiana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $244,200 to it, the largest being THE CREDIT BUREAU OF BATON ROUGE FOUNDATION ($197,700). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $214k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $244k
- Net assets
- $26k
What Dream Teachers does
Mission
To elevate the status of louisiana state teacher and principal of the year program. To inspire educators to enhance the student learning experience, and to increase awareness amongst our citizens of the importance of the education system to the future of our state.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Deam teachers holds an awards celebration annually to recognize the winners of the louisiana state principal and teachers of the year. This celebration (a gala dinner event) is attended by the semi-finalists, finalists, state education officials and administrators, the governor, key business leaders, and others. The event is held in mid-summer each year. Awards are given to the semi-finalists and overall winners. Winners are selected in three categories (elementary, middle, and high school).Dream Teachers conducts a teacher of the month recognition program that reaches state-wide. A winner is selected from the nominations that are submitted monthly. The winner receives a small cash award and recognition via Dream Teachers' online presence.
$196,050 spent$181,861 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $196,050.
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 $85k to $36k (−57%).
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: 2023 12% · 2024 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of DREAM TEACHERS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Theresa Langlois
Executive director
Board chair
Ty Hingle
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $18k → $34k.
From the IRS filings of DREAM TEACHERS’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 TEACHERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
81% 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 TEACHERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 50% · 2019 98% · 2020 89% · 2021 89% · 2022 71% · 2023 93% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
93% of DREAM TEACHERS's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
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 TEACHERS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like DREAM TEACHERS
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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DREAM TEACHERS: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds DREAM TEACHERS?
- DREAM TEACHERS (Louisiana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $244,200 to it, the largest being THE CREDIT BUREAU OF BATON ROUGE FOUNDATION ($197,700). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DREAM TEACHERS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $244,200 in grants to DREAM TEACHERS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DREAM TEACHERS?
- THE CREDIT BUREAU OF BATON ROUGE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $197,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DREAM TEACHERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 4 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