Illinois · Nonprofit
Giving Others Dreams God Inc
Giving Others Dreams God Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $343,157 to it, the largest being ACCLIVUS INC ($227,157). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $343k
- Net assets
- $416k
What Giving Others Dreams God Inc does
Mission
Giving Others Dreams is a center dedicated to providing direct re-entry training and healing services with a focus on reducing violence and supporting survivors of domestic violence particularly women. Our programs are designed to assist justice-impacted individuals in their transition back to society. We provide job readiness programming re-entry coaching mentoring services and emergency basic needs relief care packages to ensure immediate mutual aid. Additionally our emotional and social wellness programs offer holistic support to those in need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
To reduce firearm violence the OFVP has initiated the Peacemakers Program based on the FLIP Flat Lining Violence Inspires Peace model. The Peacekeepers Program uses a proven strategy to create a safe presence and has been implemented in Chicagos most highly impacted blocks during afternoon to late-night hours mid-week and through the weekend. The model advances street outreach work and develops a diverse and sustainable workforce by engaging young people who live in neighborhoods that are at a high risk for violence to serve as Peacekeepers.
$827,623 spentof which $820,746 as grants66% of program spendingThis funding supports IDHSs goals of health and safety with the specific focus on expanding access for health and behavioral health services to survivors of domestic violence and their dependent children. This goal may be achieved through hiring staff for the domestic violence programs and or contracting out for allowable services. Contracting out for such services may be conducted with for profit entities not for profit provider organizations and or individual licensed health or behavioral health professionals. Applicants may use one or more of the following strategies to implement eligible activities for domestic violence survivors and their dependent family members.
$12,539 spentof which $20,833 as grants1% of program spendingOur organizationoperated a Community Violence Intervention CVI program that provided trauma-informed street outreach violence interruption case management victim advocacy conflict mediation and supportive services to individuals and communities disproportionately impacted by gun violence. The program connected participants to behavioral health education employment housing and other stabilization resources while working collaboratively with community partners to reduce violence improve public safety and strengthen long-term community well-being. Services were funded through the Cook County Community Violence Intervention CC-CVI initiative.
$329,341 spentof which $409,395 as grants26% of program spendingWe operated a community-based violence prevention program that utilized trauma-informed outreach violence interruption case management victim advocacy conflict mediation and supportive services to reduce violence and improve community safety in underserved communities. Participants were connected to education employment behavioral health housing and other stabilization resources through coordinated partnerships designed to reduce risk factors increase protective factors and promote long-term positive outcomes. The program was supported through funding provided by the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority ICJIA.
$90,462 spentof which $46,663 as grants7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,259,965.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $11k to $416k (+3761%).
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: 2024 97% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Giving Others Dreams God Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% 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.
Chief executive
Celia Colon
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $26k → $149k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 Giving Others Dreams God 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
Giving Others Dreams God Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 Giving Others Dreams God Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 73% — 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
97% of Giving Others Dreams God Inc's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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
Giving Others Dreams God Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Giving Others Dreams God 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Giving Others Dreams God 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 Giving Others Dreams God Inc?
- Giving Others Dreams God Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $343,157 to it, the largest being ACCLIVUS INC ($227,157). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Giving Others Dreams God Inc have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $343,157 in grants to Giving Others Dreams God Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Giving Others Dreams God Inc?
- ACCLIVUS INC is the largest funder on record, with $227,157 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Giving Others Dreams God Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 7 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