Iowa · Nonprofit
EXTEND THE DREAM FOUNDATION
EXTEND THE DREAM FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,829 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY ($5,029). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2019
- $67k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $63k
What Extend the Dream Foundation does
Mission
Extend the Dream Foundation provides a gatherineg place for people of all abilities and all ages to work, play, listen and create in a safe and comfortable environment. Uptown bill's provides a venue to practice and showcare a diversity of arts, and to provide volunteer and workplace experience for people with and without disabilityies. The community center especially focuses on abilities awareness and inclusion. The organization's venue is named after bill sackter, who was institutionalized for almost 50 years before being befriended and brought to iowa city by writer barry morrow. Sackter became one of iowa city's most well loved and respected citizens.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Uptown bill's includes a large community meeting and performance room, a cafe and a smaller meeting room. The cafe sells beverages, sandwiches and desserts, as well as used books. Programming includes concerts,readings and exhibits, with live music every saturday night at 7 p.m. And sometimes other evenings. 50 concerts were presented this year, drawing audiences of 10 to 50 people. At 50 open mic nights, an average of 15 people a week gave 10-minute performances. 15 to 20 writers read from their work at monthly open word sessions. The ukulele club, irish dancers and singers, and other community singers attracted 10 to 25 participants each saturday afternoon. Combined efforts theatre, a local group of about 40 individuals of varied abilities, used the large room for rehearsals. Access2independenance offered monthly art classes, each attended by an average of 10 artisits and two leaders. Various agencies brought an average of 15 people a week to the center to socialize or learn. In addition, 15 to 150 people dropped in each month to sit, read, study, talk to friends, work on crosswords or just relax. The smaller meeting room provided regular space for such groups as alcoholics,…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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 $58k to $68k (+18%).
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.
55% of EXTEND THE DREAM FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2020: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $400 → $5k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 EXTEND THE DREAM 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
EXTEND THE DREAM FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 EXTEND THE DREAM FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 93% — 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.
Where its funders are
86% of EXTEND THE DREAM FOUNDATION'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 $800 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
EXTEND THE DREAM FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 8,675 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,675 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2019
Organizations like EXTEND THE DREAM 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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EXTEND THE DREAM 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 EXTEND THE DREAM FOUNDATION?
- EXTEND THE DREAM FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,829 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY ($5,029). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EXTEND THE DREAM FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,829 in grants to EXTEND THE DREAM FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EXTEND THE DREAM FOUNDATION?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $5,029 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EXTEND THE DREAM FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), and the filings of 2 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