California · Nonprofit
OPERATION DREAM
OPERATION DREAM (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,050 to it, the largest being SAN FRANCISCO POLICE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION ($6,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $37k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $40k
What Operation Dream does
Mission
Service to low income children families and other non profits
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Mission Police Station Annual toy event whereupon toys are distributed to underserved children. Approximately 250 children served
$5,000 spentof which $5,000 as grants43% of program spendingA Philip Randolf Association and SF Housing Authority Low income Community are provided toys for under-served children Gift cards for toys and food provided. Approximately 400 served
$6,696 spentof which $6,696 as grants57% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $11,696.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $15k to $40k (+171%).
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 OPERATION DREAM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Michael B Slade
CEO
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $16.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 OPERATION DREAM’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
OPERATION DREAM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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 OPERATION DREAM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of OPERATION DREAM's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50 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
OPERATION DREAM runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,635 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,635 crime & legal nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like OPERATION DREAM
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 OPERATION DREAM: 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 OPERATION DREAM?
- OPERATION DREAM (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,050 to it, the largest being SAN FRANCISCO POLICE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION ($6,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPERATION DREAM have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $6,050 in grants to OPERATION DREAM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPERATION DREAM?
- SAN FRANCISCO POLICE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPERATION DREAM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 2 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