Alabama · Nonprofit
I DREAM BIG ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL
I DREAM BIG ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL (Alabama) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,593,000 to it, the largest being NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA ($1,113,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $427k
What I Dream Big Academy Charter School does
Mission
At I dream big charter, we inspire every learner to recognize their unique gifts, relentlessly pursue their dreams, and become the best version of themselves. We remove barriers to success, strengthen academic, career and personal readiness, and stretch the limits of student potential through rigorous academics, real-world learning experiences, meaningful relationships, and purpose-driven exploration.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
At I dream big charter, we envision a future where every student discovers their unique talents, pursues their aspirations with determination, and emerges as a confident leader ready to make meaningful contributions to their community and beyond. Through our groundbreaking partnership with stillman college, we provide a dynamic educational environment that blends rigorous academics with real-world experiences, fostering innovation, resilience, and a lifelong passion for learning.
$1,449,517 spent100% of program spendingN/a
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The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,449,517.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $322k to $3.9M (+1108%).
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 6% · 2025 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of I DREAM BIG ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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
Dr Angela Lang
Executive director
Board chair
Latanya Collier
Board chair
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 I DREAM BIG ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL’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 DREAM BIG ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% 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
100% 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 DREAM BIG ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL.
“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
70% of I DREAM BIG ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL's grant income comes from Alabama 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.
Against its field
I DREAM BIG ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL 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 I DREAM BIG ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL
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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- I Dream Big Foundation Inc · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for I DREAM BIG ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: 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 DREAM BIG ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL?
- I DREAM BIG ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL (Alabama) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,593,000 to it, the largest being NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA ($1,113,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does I DREAM BIG ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,593,000 in grants to I DREAM BIG ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of I DREAM BIG ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL?
- NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA is the largest funder on record, with $1,113,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like I DREAM BIG ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 3 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