California · Nonprofit
FOSTER A DREAM INC
FOSTER A DREAM INC (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,125 to it, the largest being SHELL USA COMPANY FOUNDATION ($2,840). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $0
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $0
What Foster a Dream Inc does
Mission
To provide programs and resources that build the hopes, dreams and futures of bay area foster children; and be a guiding source for successful transition into the adult world. Our goal is to invest in helping foster children become productive citizens, sustain sufficiency by helping them identify their dreams and see that they go from fantasy to reality.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The foster a dream program was founded with the vision to build the hopes, dreams, and futures of foster children and be a guiding source for a successful transition into the adult world. The program originally opened its doors in july 2002, with the goal of providing resources to build the hopes, dreams and futures of bay area foster youth, helping them successfully transition into the adult world. The foster a dream program provides foster youth with mentors, life-skills education, college scholarships, and a variety of supportive services. Combined, we empower foster youth to pursue their educational and employment dreams that may have been out of reach or forgotten.
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990.
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 2017 to 2018, from $67k to $0 (−100%).
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.
0% of FOSTER A DREAM INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $66.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 FOSTER A DREAM INC’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
FOSTER A DREAM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
FOSTER A DREAM INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $285 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
FOSTER A DREAM INC's revenue fell 100% between 2017 and 2021.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,144 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2021
Organizations like FOSTER A DREAM INC
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Volunteers of America Northern California and Northern Nevada · exempt
- AIDS Housing Allience · exempt
- Volunteers of America Bay Area Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOSTER A DREAM INC: 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 FOSTER A DREAM INC?
- FOSTER A DREAM INC (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,125 to it, the largest being SHELL USA COMPANY FOUNDATION ($2,840). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOSTER A DREAM INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $3,125 in grants to FOSTER A DREAM INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOSTER A DREAM INC?
- SHELL USA COMPANY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,840 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOSTER A DREAM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), 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