Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
ESF DREAM CAMP FOUNDATION
ESF DREAM CAMP FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,562,146 to it, the largest being THE HORACE W GOLDSMITH FOUNDATION ($600,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Esf Dream Camp Foundation does
Mission
To provide under-resourced (low-income) youth tuition free, year-round, out of school time
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Dream camp provides out-of-school time opportunities (after school, summer and/or weekends and holidays) to low-income students, offering academic, social, and emotional enrichment programming, healthy food, and free transportation to and from our programs. To qualify for dream camp programs, families must live at or below the poverty level and qualify for the free and reduced lunch program. Children are referred by teachers, social workers, and guidance counselors. The staff to student ratio is low 1:4 so that impactful tutoring and mentoring can be provided. There is a strict no cell phone policy to maximize person-to-person relationship skill development along with student to student and staff to student bonding.
Summer experience: every day for 5 weeks 200 dream campers come to our site at temple university where the daily schedule operates with rotating 45 to 90-minute blocks of time similar to that of a school day. The children ages 6-17 participate in everything from journaling, healthy cooking instruction, chess, team-building and conflict resolution, creative and performing arts, violin, drums, music and video production, entrepreneurships, scrabble games, international music and dance, debate, sports, geography, science experiments and creative reading and writing experiences. Additionally, there are a variety of special guests, workshops and field trips each year including social media information sessions, trips to educational institutions such as the philadelphia zoo. Workshops are also inspired by parent feedback and requests. Students come from 69 local schools and attend dream camp each day for at least eight to ten hours, totaling a minimum of 192 hours during the summer.
$1,439,956 spent100% of program spendingYoung leaders program (ylp): provides older teens with leadership and career path experience during the summer experience. Through mentor-in-training mit courses, students learn how their positive behavior can impact their younger counterparts. They also participate in workshops that focus on college and career readiness. Thirty-eight incoming seniors have participated in the ylp program since its inception in 2010, and 100% of ylp students that have been with dream camp for five or more years have graduated high school. Seventeen of those students became staff at dream camp, and 29 ylp students have enrolled in college, dream camp proposes offering more ylp programs year-round to keep older teens engaged, enhancing the current program of monthly check-ins during the school year. As part of the enhancement, dream camp will implement programming that includes guidance on funding college, moving out and living alone, culture shock, college check-ins, mock interviews, resume writing, college essays, researching college scholarships, and more.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,439,956.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.6M to $2.2M (−14%).
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.
95% of ESF DREAM CAMP FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Michael Rouse
Executive director
Board chair
Roger Braunfeld
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $15k → $290k.
5 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 ESF DREAM CAMP FOUNDATION’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
ESF DREAM CAMP FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 38% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 63% · 2019 45% · 2020 33% · 2021 48% · 2022 36% · 2023 52% — 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
54% of ESF DREAM CAMP FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
ESF DREAM CAMP FOUNDATION draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $240k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
ESF DREAM CAMP FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding ESF DREAM CAMP FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1000k on record.
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$1000k
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 ESF DREAM CAMP FOUNDATION
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
55%
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 ESF DREAM CAMP FOUNDATION: 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 ESF DREAM CAMP FOUNDATION?
- ESF DREAM CAMP FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,562,146 to it, the largest being THE HORACE W GOLDSMITH FOUNDATION ($600,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ESF DREAM CAMP FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,562,146 in grants to ESF DREAM CAMP FOUNDATION, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ESF DREAM CAMP FOUNDATION?
- THE HORACE W GOLDSMITH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ESF DREAM CAMP FOUNDATION 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 29 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing