Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
DREAMS OF HOPE
DREAMS OF HOPE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,519,954 to it, the largest being THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS ($585,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $254k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $342k
What Dreams of Hope does
Mission
Our core values: all youth deserve respect. All people are creative. Creative expression connects people. Open dialogue is a foundation for empathy and peace. Multidisciplinary arts develop the entire person.build awareness, and increase acceptance.Dreams of Hope operates two programs: a performance ensemble = theatriq - a neighborhood based open stage, and a knowledge and resource dissemination about lgbtqa+ = sqool.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2022 return the organization reported starting a significant new program and a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Fiscal sponsorship: hatch arts
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Additional programming is routinely developed and presented throughout the year in partnership with youth-facing artistic, educational, cultural and community-based entities to support the flourishing of intergenerational lgbtqa+ art-making and art appreciation activities in the region.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Theatriq is our cornerstone performing arts program. Each fall a combination of staff members and independent contractors convene as a working group of professional artists to recruit, identify, and develop a cohort of ten youths ages 13-26 to join the annual theatriq youth ensemble. During the winter, they guide a youth cohort to create an original full-length, multidisciplinary play. They complete and rehearse the show in the spring and produce multiple performances. All performances conclude with the ensemble engaging the audience in a conversation about the show and lgbtqa+ topics. In addition to the main-stage show, the youth leaders collaborate with staff to decide on other projects the troupe wants to take on. Resumed in-person programming, began a mentorship program, added community-based programming with local educational, cultural, artistic, and community partners, and produced an alcohol-free youth pride week event.
$70,617 spent$2,211 earned by the program49% of program spendingSqool focuses on in-school and outside-of-school time knowledge and resource dissemination about lgbtqa+ identity, visibility, and access to resources through arts-based workshops and collaborative community events. There are several components to the sqool program: in-class residencies connecting Dreams of Hope teaching artists with classroom teachers to augment curriculum with arts practice and dialogue on lgbtqa+ themes in a manner that is aligned with common core curricula and state standards. Out-of-class residencies are delivered in partnership with in-school allies. These are youth-curated environments that engage students in art creation and conversation on lgbtqa+ topics. Additional one-time arts workshops expose the public to Dreams of Hope, and our programming and professional development activities.
$61,552 spent43% of program spendingCommunity programs include youth advisory council, queerness and nature residency, and the Dreams of Hope mentorship program
$11,258 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $143,427.
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 2018 to 2019, from $112k to $298k (+165%).
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: 2018 5% · 2019 2% · 2020 6% · 2021 16% · 2022 15% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of DREAMS OF HOPE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Terrence Mcgeorge
Board chair
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $42k → $280k.
4 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 OF HOPE’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 OF HOPE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 56% · 2019 34% · 2020 45% · 2021 37% · 2022 63% · 2023 61% — 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
50% of DREAMS OF HOPE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
89% of DREAMS OF HOPE's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $340k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 OF HOPE is better cushioned than half of the 17,174 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,174 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Government funding DREAMS OF HOPE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$100k
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 DREAMS OF HOPE
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
50% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 DREAMS OF HOPE: 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 OF HOPE?
- DREAMS OF HOPE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,519,954 to it, the largest being THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS ($585,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DREAMS OF HOPE have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,519,954 in grants to DREAMS OF HOPE, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DREAMS OF HOPE?
- THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS is the largest funder on record, with $585,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DREAMS OF HOPE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 20 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