South Carolina · Nonprofit
SUMMERVILLE DREAM INC
SUMMERVILLE DREAM INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,516 to it, the largest being ROBERT & JOAN DIRCKS FOUNDATION INC ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $653k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $581k
What Summerville Dream Inc does
Mission
Summerville dream is a 501 (c)(3) organization dedicated to improving the quality of life in summerville by enhancing the aesthetic, cultural, social and economic aspects of the downtown area, while preserving its historic identity. Summerville dream promotes downtown revitalization through event coordination, business education, advocacy, beautification and enhancement projects, tourism promotion, and marketing historic downtown summerville to residents and guests.we operate using the main street approach, which uses both hard data about our community and input from its residents to develop a vision for our downtown. This vision is addressed through four separate committees economic vitality, promotion, design, and organization, each of which acts on different elements of the vision to produce both qualitative and quantitative outcomes. Our goal is to improve the quality of life in downtown summerville.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Third thursdayon the third thursday of each month historic downtown summerville transforms into a special marketplace featuring local entertainment, craft vendors and artisans, to complement the extended hours of our eclectic shops, boutiques and restaurants.
$19,941 spent$1,160 earned by the program16% of program spendingSummerville christmas paradesummerville christmas parade is designed to promote positivity throughout the town of summerville while capturing the "spirit of the christmas holiday." the parade is a family friendly, non-political event that aims to bring the community together to celebrate the season while representing the local traditions and summerville hospitality.
$4,092 spent$5,550 earned by the program3% of program spendingSweet tea festivalthe sweet tea festival is a celebration of the birthplace of sweet tea, right here in summerville sc. Our historic downtown is transformed into a massive open house / street fair with different food trucks, artisanal vendors and entertainment. Of course, there is plenty of sweet tea and you can help select the tea of the year by sampling and voting for your favorite!
$30,626 spent$11,294 earned by the program24% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$73,946 spent$171,424 earned by the program57% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $128,605.
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 2024 to 2025, from $270k to $587k (+118%).
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: 2017 67% · 2018 61% · 2019 63% · 2020 69% · 2021 65% · 2022 11% · 2023 38% · 2024 51% · 2025 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of SUMMERVILLE DREAM INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% 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
Steve Doniger
Executive director
Board chair
Avery Greenlee
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.
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 SUMMERVILLE DREAM INC’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
SUMMERVILLE DREAM INC 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
“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
SUMMERVILLE DREAM INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16 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
SUMMERVILLE DREAM INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SUMMERVILLE DREAM INC
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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
39% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 SUMMERVILLE DREAM INC: 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 SUMMERVILLE DREAM INC?
- SUMMERVILLE DREAM INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,516 to it, the largest being ROBERT & JOAN DIRCKS FOUNDATION INC ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SUMMERVILLE DREAM INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,516 in grants to SUMMERVILLE DREAM INC.
- Who is the largest funder of SUMMERVILLE DREAM INC?
- ROBERT & JOAN DIRCKS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUMMERVILLE DREAM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South 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 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