New Jersey · Nonprofit
I DARE TO CARE ASSOCIATION
I DARE TO CARE ASSOCIATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $484,270 to it, the largest being CPAC THE COMMUNITY PLANNING & ADVOCACY COUNCIL ($367,570). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $217k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $484k
- Net assets
- $-8699
What I Dare to Care Association does
Mission
I Dare to Care Association currently provides its services for girls 7 to 18 years of age. Parents regularly take part in our various program services and workshops. We also provide social emotional services to middle school girls that are experiencing behavioral problems in school poor academic porformance and are chronically absent. While we provide our services in school we encourage parents to engage girls in our afterschool programming to assist them in education enrichment to assist them in improving their classroom assignments. I Dare to Care Association does not discriminate; we provide cultural relevant services to all the girls and family members who attend. We are proud of the non-judgement space that we created so that participants can experience complete safety in the environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provide mentoring services to girls ages 7 to 18 years of age and their families to strengthen family and school relationships to insure successful outcomes. Youth are assigned to age-appropriate mentors attend workshops provided stem training opportunities and fieldtrips engage in educational enrichment and homework clinics participate in community service projects. We also expose youth to cultural and social events.
$181,499 spent80% of program spendingProvide trauma informed workshops for middle school youth experiencing behavior problems and chronic absenteeism. Twenty youth are selected by school administrators to participate in our social-emotional programming weekly. These youth are at risk of dropping out of school due to poor academic performance as well as behavior problems that disrupts classroom activities.
$19,900 spent9% of program spendingProvide stem training to 10 girls 13 to 18 years of age to address the lack of digital access and involvement in technology by teaching stem concepts. The id2c I-code program provides participants with secure internet access demystifies the functions of technology and opens opportunities for highly marketable skills that can lead to technology careers and education
$24,858 spent11% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $226,257.
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 2024 to 2025, from $14k to $-8699 (−162%).
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.
100% of I DARE TO CARE ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Pamela Grayson-Baltimore
President-CEO
Board chair
Naeemah Hickson
Board chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $33k.
From the IRS filings of I DARE TO CARE ASSOCIATION’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
I DARE TO CARE ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 I DARE TO CARE ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 60% — 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
99% of I DARE TO CARE ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
I DARE TO CARE ASSOCIATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like I DARE TO CARE ASSOCIATION
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 New Jersey
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.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for I DARE TO CARE ASSOCIATION: 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 I DARE TO CARE ASSOCIATION?
- I DARE TO CARE ASSOCIATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $484,270 to it, the largest being CPAC THE COMMUNITY PLANNING & ADVOCACY COUNCIL ($367,570). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does I DARE TO CARE ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $484,270 in grants to I DARE TO CARE ASSOCIATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of I DARE TO CARE ASSOCIATION?
- CPAC THE COMMUNITY PLANNING & ADVOCACY COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $367,570 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like I DARE TO CARE ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 4 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