Florida · Nonprofit
THE I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION OF MIAMI INC
THE I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION OF MIAMI INC (Florida) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $311,561 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($60,850). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $806k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $312k
- Net assets
- $6.0M
What The I Have a Dream Foundation of Miami Inc does
Mission
The foundation offers financial and educational support from early elementary school and beyond to students in under-resourced public schools or housing projects.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
School program - students enrolled in the school program receive after school learning, summer learning and sat preparation services.
$299,622 spentof which $5,253 as grants75% of program spendingScholarship program - students enrolled in the school program are eligible to receive college tuition assistance if certain agreed upon academic milestones made with the foundation are met. When certain academic milestones are met, the foundation awards college tuition assistance directly to the students college on behalf of the student.
$97,968 spentof which $97,968 as grants25% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $397,590.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $5.4M to $6.0M (+12%).
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.
63% of THE I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION OF MIAMI INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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
Jonas Severe
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $10k → $85k.
7 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $101k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest I Have a Dream Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION OF MIAMI INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION OF MIAMI 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 I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION OF MIAMI INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
70% 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 THE I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION OF MIAMI INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 52% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 29% · 2022 24% · 2023 34% — 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
50% of THE I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION OF MIAMI INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
64% of THE I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION OF MIAMI INC'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 $112k that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $199k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
THE I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION OF MIAMI INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION OF MIAMI 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
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 THE I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION OF MIAMI 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 I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION OF MIAMI INC?
- THE I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION OF MIAMI INC (Florida) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $311,561 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($60,850). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION OF MIAMI INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $311,561 in grants to THE I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION OF MIAMI INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION OF MIAMI INC?
- The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $60,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION OF MIAMI INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 12 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