North Carolina · Nonprofit
RALEIGH DREAM CENTER
RALEIGH DREAM CENTER (North Carolina) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,303,505 to it, the largest being THE FRANKLIN LEWIS ROBUCK FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($445,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Raleigh Dream Center does
Mission
To bring hope and restoration through the message of the Gospel to people in the Triangle area by providing social services and community programs to homeless, abused, and impoverished high risk youth, individuals and families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Adopt-A-Block and Mobile Pantry - RDCs Adopt-A-Block and Mobile Food Pantry outreach reached 35 under-resourced locations with food, clothing, prayer, and other needs - distributing 1,254,690 pounds of food. During November, when SNAP benefits were delayed, RDC opened pop-up food pantries serving an additional 3880 individuals. In addition, 3,000 wrapped Christmas gifts and 3,000 backpacks were given to children at annual events.
$2,946,850 spentof which $2,410,185 as grants73% of program spendingDream Center Discipleship Program - During 2025 RDC had 4 recovery homes for men and 1 recovery home for women. This is a free one-year program that provides housing, food, counseling, and programming to help people walk in sobriety and begin to put the pieces of their lives back together. RDC is able to house 16 men and 4 women in this program. During 2025, 34 men and 8 women experienced the DCD program.
$459,033 spent11% of program spendingHomeless Family Outreach Family Night/Clothing/Thrift, Street Outreach - RDC has a weekly outreach to people experiencing homelessness. Each Tuesday night RDC transports people to and from the RDC facility for a hot meal, fellowship, worship and bible study. During 2025, approximately 9,500 people attended Tuesday Family Nights.
$141,366 spentof which $89,417 as grants3% of program spendingProgram Service Expenses 42,692, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 KidzJam - RDC offers a free afterschool program for elementary age kids in certain Wake County communities and at Family Night every Tuesday meeting their emotional, spiritual, and physical needs. The KidzJam program also serves children of all ages during the Saturday Adopt-A-Block program and the Summer Leadership Program. Through KidzJam, 1,834 children were impacted across various communities. Program Service Expenses 436,664, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Project Light Emergency Safe House for Trafficking Survivors - During 2025 RDC opened a safe house serving women for 30 to 45 days, during the crucial period between rescue and long-term residential placement. The program employs a trauma-informed care approach, meeting survivors immediate needs while providing a safe environment for healing. All services, housing, meals, and case management are provided at no cost to survivors. A total of 9 women benefited from Project Light during the year. Program Service Expenses 27,730, Grants and allocations 10,358, Revenue 0 Disaster Relief Outreach Short Term Missions
$507,086 spentof which $10,358 as grants13% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,054,335.
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 2021 to 2022, from $836k to $1.3M (+58%).
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 32% · 2021 75% · 2022 15% · 2023 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of RALEIGH DREAM CENTER’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. 3 of the last 9 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
Jeremy Porras Pastor
Executive Director
Board chair
Kerry Rouser
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $16k → $213k.
9 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 RALEIGH DREAM CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 26 of 27 funders by total. 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
RALEIGH DREAM CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
50% 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 RALEIGH DREAM CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 64% · 2019 57% · 2020 49% · 2021 39% · 2022 91% · 2023 48% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of RALEIGH DREAM CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
79% of RALEIGH DREAM CENTER's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $397k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states 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
RALEIGH DREAM CENTER has grown faster 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 RALEIGH DREAM CENTER
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RALEIGH DREAM CENTER?
- RALEIGH DREAM CENTER (North Carolina) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,303,505 to it, the largest being THE FRANKLIN LEWIS ROBUCK FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($445,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RALEIGH DREAM CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $1,303,505 in grants to RALEIGH DREAM CENTER, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RALEIGH DREAM CENTER?
- THE FRANKLIN LEWIS ROBUCK FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $445,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RALEIGH DREAM CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 27 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