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SMOKY MOUNTAIN DREAM CENTER

SMOKY MOUNTAIN DREAM CENTER (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,245 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$51k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$25k
Net assets
$833k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Smoky Mountain Dream Center does

Mission

The Smoky Mountain Dream Center is a faith-based nonprofit organization located in east tennessee, which offers transitional housing and christ-centered solutions to women who have faced incarceration, poverty and abuse, feeding programs, a church facility for the community to worship in, and youth and children community programs to aid in their physical, mental, and spiritual development.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Team related community projects - the organization provided leadership programs and food pantry distribution center to aid youth in their physical and mental development.

    $322 spent
    3% of program spending
  2. Jail programs - the organization provides christ-centered solutions to women who have faced incarceration including non-residential programs to overcome life-controlling issues.

    $9,429 spent
    97% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,751.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($156k) Expenses 100 ($57k) Net assets 100 ($132k)2018 Revenue 121 ($189k) Expenses 104 ($59k) Net assets 198 ($262k)2019 Revenue 80 ($124k) Expenses 88 ($50k) Net assets 254 ($336k)2020 Revenue 153 ($238k) Expenses 249 ($142k) Net assets 327 ($433k)2021 Revenue 151 ($235k) Expenses 350 ($199k) Net assets 356 ($470k)2022 Revenue 149 ($233k) Expenses 258 ($147k) Net assets 421 ($557k)2023 Revenue 105 ($164k) Expenses 355 ($202k) Net assets 393 ($519k)2024 Revenue 408 ($636k) Expenses 449 ($255k) Net assets 681 ($900k)2025 Revenue 33 ($51k) Expenses 208 ($118k) Net assets 630 ($833k)
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Revenue (33)Expenses (208)Net assets (630)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $519k to $900k (+73%).

$132k
$262k
$336k
$434k
$470k
$557k
$519k
$900k
$833k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

62% of SMOKY MOUNTAIN DREAM CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,020 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$99k
’17
$130k
’18
$74k
’19
$96k
’20
$36k
’21
$87k
’22
−$38k
’23
$381k
’24
−$67k
’25
59
months of
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

Jodi Povec

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed444465
Joined·+3+0+1+4+2
No longer listed·30123
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $64 → $25k.

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SMOKY MOUNTAIN DREAM CENTER’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

SMOKY MOUNTAIN DREAM CENTER 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 SMOKY MOUNTAIN DREAM CENTER.

99%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

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 SMOKY MOUNTAIN DREAM CENTER'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SMOKY MOUNTAIN DREAM CENTER holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,052 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−132% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve58.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−13% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,052 crime & legal nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like SMOKY MOUNTAIN 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 Tennessee

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

8% of spending goes to programs.

Program 8%Management 92%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

96%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds SMOKY MOUNTAIN DREAM CENTER?
SMOKY MOUNTAIN DREAM CENTER (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,245 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SMOKY MOUNTAIN DREAM CENTER have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $25,245 in grants to SMOKY MOUNTAIN DREAM CENTER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SMOKY MOUNTAIN DREAM CENTER?
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SMOKY MOUNTAIN DREAM CENTER find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 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