Alabama · Nonprofit
THE DREAM CENTER INC
THE DREAM CENTER INC (Alabama) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,099 to it, the largest being WILLIAM THOMAS DAWSON FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $156k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $136k
What The Dream Center Inc does
Mission
The purpose of the corp. Is to establish for the general public a safe and stable place which seeks to incorporate school services, community partnerships and other community resources to positively impact and eliminate some of the socioeconomic barriers that prevent students and their families from achieving success in academics and in their community. This activity is how we accomplish this.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Working with 13 to 18 year olds. Bringing life skills and needed resources to them and their families.
$74,048 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $74,048.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $41k to $136k (+229%).
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.
96% of THE DREAM CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $37 → $1k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 THE DREAM CENTER 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
THE DREAM CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 94% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of THE DREAM CENTER INC's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $99 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
THE DREAM CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE DREAM CENTER 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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE DREAM CENTER 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 THE DREAM CENTER INC?
- THE DREAM CENTER INC (Alabama) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,099 to it, the largest being WILLIAM THOMAS DAWSON FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE DREAM CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $6,099 in grants to THE DREAM CENTER INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE DREAM CENTER INC?
- WILLIAM THOMAS DAWSON FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE DREAM CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 3 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