Arkansas · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF DREAMLAND BALLROOM
FRIENDS OF DREAMLAND BALLROOM (Arkansas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being STELLA SMITH CHARITABLE TRUST ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $145k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Friends of Dreamland Ballroom does
Mission
Friends of dreamland celebrates the community of historic west ninth street, shares the legacy of dreamland ballroom, and preserves the original intent of taborian hall.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Dancing into dreamland, our annual fundraiser. This is our primary fundraising initiative and an oppurtunity to showcase local performers and artists in the dreamland ballroom.
$41,230 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $41,230.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $652k to $1.0M (+59%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 89% · 2021 98% · 2022 96% · 2023 70% · 2024 100% · 2025 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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
Matthew Mccoy
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF DREAMLAND BALLROOM’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.
Where its funders are
100% of FRIENDS OF DREAMLAND BALLROOM's grant income comes from Arkansas funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Government funding FRIENDS OF DREAMLAND BALLROOM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record.
- Department of the Interior$1.5M
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 FRIENDS OF DREAMLAND BALLROOM
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 Arkansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF DREAMLAND BALLROOM: 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 FRIENDS OF DREAMLAND BALLROOM?
- FRIENDS OF DREAMLAND BALLROOM (Arkansas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being STELLA SMITH CHARITABLE TRUST ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF DREAMLAND BALLROOM have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to FRIENDS OF DREAMLAND BALLROOM.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF DREAMLAND BALLROOM?
- STELLA SMITH CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF DREAMLAND BALLROOM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 1 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