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SWEET DREAMS FOUNDATION

SWEET DREAMS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $119,857 to it, the largest being TERRA FAMILY FOUNDATION ($40,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$304k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$120k
Net assets
$164k
5/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 30%
01What it does

What Sweet Dreams Foundation does

Mission

The specific purpose of this corporation is to lift the spirits of seriously/terminally ill children/adolescents and medically fragile babies. Our children/adolescent program creates dream bedroom makeovers at the childs home. This will help the child/adolescent cope with their disease because they will be in their favorite place. Our baby program will give gifts to the baby/parent that will encourage physical and emotional development. This will help the baby and parent cope with separation and provide tools to bond. Both programs create healing environments.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Our children/adolescent program creates dream bedroom makeovers at the childs home. This will help the child/adolescent cope with their disease because they will be in their favorite place.

    $145,308 spent
    77% of program spending
  2. Our baby program will give gifts to the baby/parent that will encourage physical and emotional development. This will help the baby and parent cope with separation and provide tools to bond.

    $43,771 spent
    23% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $189,079.

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 ($133k) Expenses 100 ($128k) Net assets 100 ($100k)2018 Revenue 35 ($46k) Expenses 64 ($82k) Net assets 64 ($64k)2021 Revenue 48 ($65k) Expenses 61 ($78k) Net assets 22 ($22k)2022 Revenue 96 ($129k) Expenses 88 ($113k) Net assets 38 ($38k)2023 Revenue 98 ($131k) Expenses 107 ($137k) Net assets 32 ($32k)2024 Revenue 189 ($253k) Expenses 150 ($192k) Net assets 93 ($93k)2025 Revenue 228 ($304k) Expenses 182 ($233k) Net assets 164 ($164k)
2017201820212022202320242025
Revenue (228)Expenses (182)Net assets (164)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 2024 to 2025, from $98k to $173k (+78%).

$106k
$65k
$31k
$46k
$31k
$98k
$173k
2017201820212022202320242025
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
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of SWEET DREAMS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$5k
’17
−$36k
’18
−$14k
’21
$16k
’22
−$6k
’23
$61k
’24
$71k
’25
8.8
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.

202320242025
Listed999
Joined·+0+0
No longer listed·00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $1k → $39k.

6 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 SWEET DREAMS FOUNDATION’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

SWEET DREAMS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% 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 SWEET DREAMS FOUNDATION.

33%
largest funder
60%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 100% · 2019 55% · 2020 84% · 2021 100% · 2022 39% · 2023 29% — 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

40% of SWEET DREAMS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 31% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

82% of SWEET DREAMS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.

MI
SD
CA
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

SWEET DREAMS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin23% · above the median
Months of reserve8.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 9%Fundraising 9%

Governance

9
board members
89%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds SWEET DREAMS FOUNDATION?
SWEET DREAMS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $119,857 to it, the largest being TERRA FAMILY FOUNDATION ($40,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SWEET DREAMS FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $119,857 in grants to SWEET DREAMS FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SWEET DREAMS FOUNDATION?
TERRA FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SWEET DREAMS FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 16 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