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DREAMWRIGHTS YOUTH AND FAMILY THEATRE

DREAMWRIGHTS YOUTH AND FAMILY THEATRE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,085,387 to it, the largest being POWDER MILL FOUNDATION ($475,919). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$424k
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
$3.5M
14/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 40%
01What it does

What Dreamwrights Youth and Family Theatre does

Mission

Dreamwrights is an intergenerational community that builds character through creative learning experiences in performance, visual and theatre arts. *inclusive and accepting*lifelong learning*leadership and mentorship*respect and responsibility*creativity*integenerational

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Season show productions. All productions were completed during the current year.

    $267,834 spent$93,906 earned by the program
    59% of program spending
  2. Summer camps. Spring, fall, and outreach classes. Summer camps exceeded expectations.

    $189,639 spent$66,490 earned by the program
    41% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $457,473.

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 ($413k) Expenses 100 ($395k) Net assets 100 ($3.4M)2018 Revenue 133 ($548k) Expenses 119 ($469k) Net assets 102 ($3.4M)2019 Revenue 102 ($422k) Expenses 121 ($479k) Net assets 101 ($3.4M)2020 Revenue 120 ($496k) Expenses 104 ($409k) Net assets 105 ($3.6M)2021 Revenue 169 ($699k) Expenses 119 ($468k) Net assets 111 ($3.8M)2022 Revenue 116 ($478k) Expenses 143 ($564k) Net assets 107 ($3.6M)2023 Revenue 138 ($571k) Expenses 140 ($552k) Net assets 109 ($3.7M)2024 Revenue 125 ($518k) Expenses 143 ($565k) Net assets 109 ($3.7M)2025 Revenue 103 ($424k) Expenses 159 ($627k) Net assets 104 ($3.5M)
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Revenue (103)Expenses (159)Net assets (104)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 2017 to 2018, from $4.2M to $3.7M (−11%).

$4.2M
$3.7M
$3.5M
$3.6M
$3.8M
$3.6M
$3.7M
$3.7M
$3.6M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 5% · 2022 16% · 2023 2% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

48% of DREAMWRIGHTS YOUTH AND FAMILY THEATRE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 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.

$18k
’17
$79k
’18
−$57k
’19
$88k
’20
$231k
’21
−$85k
’22
$19k
’23
−$47k
’24
−$203k
’25
3.8
months of
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

Amanda Roesch

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed151514141513141315
Joined·+3+3+5+4+7+6+4+5
No longer listed·34539553
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $148k → $67k.

3 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 DREAMWRIGHTS YOUTH AND FAMILY THEATRE’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

DREAMWRIGHTS YOUTH AND FAMILY THEATRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

44%
largest funder
60%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 78% · 2019 69% · 2020 19% · 2021 30% · 2022 24% · 2023 37% — 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

50% of DREAMWRIGHTS YOUTH AND FAMILY THEATRE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 DREAMWRIGHTS YOUTH AND FAMILY THEATRE's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

WI
NY
OH
PA
NC

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

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’21
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’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $181k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DREAMWRIGHTS YOUTH AND FAMILY THEATRE receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.1M to it.

Operating margin−48% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like DREAMWRIGHTS YOUTH AND FAMILY THEATRE

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 22%Fundraising 5%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

68%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds DREAMWRIGHTS YOUTH AND FAMILY THEATRE?
DREAMWRIGHTS YOUTH AND FAMILY THEATRE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,085,387 to it, the largest being POWDER MILL FOUNDATION ($475,919). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DREAMWRIGHTS YOUTH AND FAMILY THEATRE have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,085,387 in grants to DREAMWRIGHTS YOUTH AND FAMILY THEATRE, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DREAMWRIGHTS YOUTH AND FAMILY THEATRE?
POWDER MILL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $475,919 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DREAMWRIGHTS YOUTH AND FAMILY THEATRE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 19 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