Illinois · Nonprofit
DREAMS INDEED INTERNATIONAL
DREAMS INDEED INTERNATIONAL (Illinois) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,034,592 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($267,125). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $772k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Dreams Indeed International does
Mission
Strengthen indigenous social entrepreneurs in hard places to enable the poor to thrive as god intended. Initiate and support various charitable, humanitarian and educational projects and initiatives to help meet the needs of the poor, hungry, thirsty, unclothed, sick, disabled, homeless, marginalized, imprisoned, orphaned, widowed, aged, vulnerable and disadvantaged persons throughout the world, as a tangible demonstration of the love of jesus christ without discrimination on the basis of religious heritage, race, color, gender or ethnicity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Strengthening social entrepreneurs.strengthened 47 community networks totaling over 910 volunteers in levantine conflict zones who befriended, sheltered and/or employed over 510 mentally challenged persons; providing servant leadership mentoring, enterprise coaching, financial oversight, and matching grants. Assisted two lebanese visionaries to mobilize hundreds of crisis volunteers for unity in diversity to outfit 140 volunteer first-responders, provide 1000 mattresses to displaced families, and rebuild 24 damaged residential buildings; with our servant leadership mentoring, resilience counseling and matching grants.upgraded and piloted a values curriculum and trained three maturing himalayan youth leaders to impart character values, computer skills, and literacy proficiency to 23 tribal children and orphans, most of whom were afflicted with hiv at birth; to provide medical and food relief for flood and earthquake victims; and to steward micro-business and agricultural enterprises; with servant leadership mentoring, enterprise design, financial oversight, and operating grants.reinforced the resilience of an east african visionary offering psycho-spiritual support for both women…
$273,683 spentof which $168,100 as grants$95,060 earned by the program56% of program spendingMobilizing social entrepreneurship.strengthened social entrepreneurship by advising and networking eleven venture philanthropists and social entrepreneurs across the middle east, southeast asia, europe, and north america.created and piloted advanced servant leadership curriculum and contextualized mission and core value discernment methodologies for hard place contexts of sectarian violence, human rights abuse, compromised rule of law, and chronic poverty. Assisted the founder of an institute for psychological resilience of traumatized communities, with strengthened financial stewardship, program partnership strategy, and annual campaign design. Advised a cyber-security enterprise founder on pursuit of values and mission, and sustaining servant leader development. Facilitated discernment of mission and values, servant leadership development, program design, board governance, and corporate philanthropy with the co-founders of a middle eastern law firm.achieved university of oxford approval for fieldwork research design on the pedagogy of parable: exploring a voluntary network serving with and for the other in lebanon, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of…
$214,956 spentof which $157,900 as grants$35,109 earned by the program44% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $488,639.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.0M to $1.3M (+29%).
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.
72% of DREAMS INDEED INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
David L Haskell
President & CEO
Board chair
Rick L Williamson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $82k → $185k.
8 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 DREAMS INDEED INTERNATIONAL’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
DREAMS INDEED INTERNATIONAL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
68% 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 DREAMS INDEED INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 44% · 2019 43% · 2020 29% · 2021 25% · 2022 24% · 2023 41% — 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.
How long its funders stay
60% of DREAMS INDEED INTERNATIONAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
66% of DREAMS INDEED INTERNATIONAL's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $355k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $680k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
DREAMS INDEED INTERNATIONAL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,468 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like DREAMS INDEED INTERNATIONAL
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 6 states
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DREAMS INDEED INTERNATIONAL: 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 DREAMS INDEED INTERNATIONAL?
- DREAMS INDEED INTERNATIONAL (Illinois) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,034,592 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($267,125). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DREAMS INDEED INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,034,592 in grants to DREAMS INDEED INTERNATIONAL, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DREAMS INDEED INTERNATIONAL?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $267,125 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DREAMS INDEED INTERNATIONAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 14 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