Michigan · Nonprofit
GARDEN OF DREAMS COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL AND CHILD CARE
GARDEN OF DREAMS COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL AND CHILD CARE (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $87 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($87). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $87
- Net assets
- $894k
What Garden of Dreams Community Preschool and Child Care does
Mission
Garden of Dreams Community Preschool and Child Care develops young children through safe and affordable daily care. Our programs are rich in diversity through family and community support and involvement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Great Start Readiness Program (GSRP) is a very low cost program for children who are four years old across the State of Michigan. This program runs September through May and the children attend Monday through Thursday from 8am - 3pm. GSRP prepares children for kindergarten using High Scope curriculum, which is proven to improve student achievement. We encourage parent involvement and give opportunity for parent conferences and home visits. GSRP classrooms have 2 teachers whereby the lead teachers has a bachelors' degree and the assistant teacher has an associates degree.
$177,597 spent$177,467 earned by the program18% of program spendingFood Service Program We participate in the federal child and adult care food program, CACFP. This program ensures that we serve healthy, family style meals to all of the children in our care. We are critical partners in ensuring that our students receive the proper nutrition that they need to grow and develop. Our kitchen is licensed by the county health department, and we are able to accommodate those with food sensitivities.
$49,417 spent$64,795 earned by the program5% of program spendingChild Care Programming. Our child care program serves infants through 5 years old during the school year, and school age children during the summer. We serve families by providing affordable child care licensed by the State of Michigan. We have both private pay and DHHS children and we are open Monday - Friday from 6:30 am to 5:30 pm to meet the needs of our families. We offer a summer camp from June - August each year giving children educational and entertaining opportunities in a safe and nurturing environment. Our classrooms have structured daily routines, include time for outdoor play, indoor play, guided learning, and food and rest time. We employ two full time teacher in each classrooms in order to provide consistent caregivers for all of our students. There are also part time care givers who can fill in when teachers need to take breaks or are gone for the day.
$780,071 spent$855,239 earned by the program77% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,007,085.
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. 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 2022 to 2023, from $508k to $854k (+68%).
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 37% · 2021 25% · 2022 38% · 2023 8% · 2024 15% · 2025 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
28% of GARDEN OF DREAMS COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL AND CHILD CARE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Robin Beasley
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $28 → $22.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 GARDEN OF DREAMS COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL AND CHILD CARE’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 GARDEN OF DREAMS COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL AND CHILD CARE'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $87 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
GARDEN OF DREAMS COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL AND CHILD CARE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like GARDEN OF DREAMS COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL AND CHILD CARE
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% 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 GARDEN OF DREAMS COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL AND CHILD CARE: 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 GARDEN OF DREAMS COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL AND CHILD CARE?
- GARDEN OF DREAMS COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL AND CHILD CARE (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $87 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($87). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GARDEN OF DREAMS COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL AND CHILD CARE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $87 in grants to GARDEN OF DREAMS COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL AND CHILD CARE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GARDEN OF DREAMS COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL AND CHILD CARE?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $87 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GARDEN OF DREAMS COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL AND CHILD CARE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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