New York · Nonprofit
RUNWAY OF DREAMS FOUNDATION
RUNWAY OF DREAMS FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $965,445 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($150,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $185k
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $965k
- Net assets
- $-334264
What Runway of Dreams Foundation does
Mission
Through education, advocacy, adaptive runway shows, scholarships, and our national network of college clubs , runway of dreams celebrate people's differences, challenge stereotypes, and advance adaptive & universal design while creating opportunities for the next generation of innovators and leaders.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Adaptive runway shows: the foundation is rethinking the runway with global adaptive fashion shows that celebrate people's differences, break down stereotypes and empower people with disabilities with confidence, independence and style. The Runway of Dreams Foundation produces national runway shows that celebrate inclusion, highlight change in the fashion industry and empower people with disabilities with confidence, independence and style.
$14,140 spentof which $12,634 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $14,140.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $401k to $95k (−76%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $6k → $137k.
11 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 RUNWAY OF DREAMS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
RUNWAY OF DREAMS FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
58% 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 RUNWAY OF DREAMS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 26% · 2019 24% · 2020 38% · 2021 22% · 2022 26% · 2023 36% — 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
35% of RUNWAY OF DREAMS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
53% of RUNWAY OF DREAMS FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $458k that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $507k 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.
Organizations like RUNWAY OF DREAMS FOUNDATION
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 York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RUNWAY OF DREAMS FOUNDATION: 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 RUNWAY OF DREAMS FOUNDATION?
- RUNWAY OF DREAMS FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $965,445 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($150,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RUNWAY OF DREAMS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $965,445 in grants to RUNWAY OF DREAMS FOUNDATION, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RUNWAY OF DREAMS FOUNDATION?
- COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RUNWAY OF DREAMS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 40 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