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EMBRACE YOUR DREAMS

EMBRACE YOUR DREAMS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,715 to it, the largest being PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC ($36,350). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$122k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$68k
Net assets
$131k
4/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01What it does

What Embrace Your Dreams does

Mission

To provide young people of diverse backgrounds with life skills through education as part of golf and tennis instruction that promotes positive values, physical skills and sportsmanship.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. The first tee lehigh valley and the first serve programs of Embrace Your Dreams provide tennis and golf instruction, sports etiquette, and life skills education for lehigh valley youth ages 8-18. Life skills education is integrated into golf and tennis instruction to helpchildren build self-esteem, develop self-discipline, gain a sense of individual achievement and handle success and failure. Eyd goes beyond traditional recreational sports programs, using 'sports as a hook' to address physiological, social, cognitive and behavioral needs.participants learn how core values such as responsibility, honesty,respect, and sportsmanship can help them become better people on and off the court or course. Participants also learn the importance ofexercise and eating in a healthy way. Youth learn life skills they can use forever and sports they can play for a lifetime! Embrace Your Dreams is the designated the first tee lehigh valley chapter

    $67,671 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $67,671.

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 ($110k) Expenses 100 ($112k) Net assets 100 ($709)2018 Revenue 103 ($114k) Expenses 101 ($113k) Net assets 256 ($2k)2019 Revenue 93 ($103k) Expenses 89 ($100k) Net assets 642 ($5k)2020 Revenue 53 ($59k) Expenses 41 ($46k) Net assets 2473 ($18k)2021 Revenue 76 ($83k) Expenses 54 ($61k) Net assets 5621 ($40k)2022 Revenue 96 ($105k) Expenses 59 ($66k) Net assets 11197 ($79k)2023 Revenue 122 ($134k) Expenses 88 ($98k) Net assets 16223 ($115k)2024 Revenue 111 ($122k) Expenses 95 ($107k) Net assets 18441 ($131k)
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Revenue (111)Expenses (95)Net assets (18441)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 2021 to 2022, from $43k to $80k (+88%).

$15k
$16k
$12k
$18k
$43k
$80k
$115k
$131k
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

83% of EMBRACE YOUR DREAMS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,387 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$2k
’17
$1k
’18
$3k
’19
$13k
’20
$22k
’21
$40k
’22
$36k
’23
$16k
’24
0.3
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.

Chief executive

Fred Keller

Executive director

Board chair

Robert G Schermerhorn Jr

Board chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $9k → $2k.

2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 EMBRACE YOUR DREAMS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 funders by total. 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

EMBRACE YOUR DREAMS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

86% 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 EMBRACE YOUR DREAMS.

54%
largest funder
77%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 56% · 2019 100% · 2022 95% · 2023 100% — 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

25% of EMBRACE YOUR DREAMS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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

EMBRACE YOUR DREAMS draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 4 states in all.

NY
PA
NC
FL

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

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’18
’19
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k 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

EMBRACE YOUR DREAMS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,688 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin13% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like EMBRACE YOUR DREAMS

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

05Profile & governance

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

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

PA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EMBRACE YOUR DREAMS: 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 EMBRACE YOUR DREAMS?
EMBRACE YOUR DREAMS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,715 to it, the largest being PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC ($36,350). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does EMBRACE YOUR DREAMS have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $67,715 in grants to EMBRACE YOUR DREAMS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EMBRACE YOUR DREAMS?
PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $36,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EMBRACE YOUR DREAMS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 9 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