Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
UNITED WE DREAM ACTION
UNITED WE DREAM ACTION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,027,500 to it, the largest being OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC ($3,800,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $9.0M
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What United We Dream Action does
Mission
United We Dream Action seeks to improve the lives of all young people in the u.s., including those from immigrant communities, by empowering and developing our members to lead efforts that advance justice and equity through advocacy activity and policy change.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
United We Dream Action advances its mission by educating the public and connecting local, state, and regional groups to promote public policies and programs that advance justice, equity, and dignity for all young people in the u.s., including those from immigrant communities. It educates young people in the u.s. To advocate for the rights of their communities, and to take an active role in their communities so their voices are heard. It also advocated for the continuation and expansion of daca, especially in response to negative court decisions at the tx district court and the 5th circuit, and advocated in support of policies to support immigrants in the united states to gain protections from deportation and a path to legal status/ citizenship.
$2,343,368 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,343,368.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.2M to $3.5M (+62%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Greisa Martinez Rosas
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $250k → $1.6M.
2 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 UNITED WE DREAM ACTION’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
UNITED WE DREAM ACTION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 UNITED WE DREAM ACTION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 71% · 2019 57% · 2020 62% · 2021 48% · 2022 39% · 2023 47% — 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
25% of UNITED WE DREAM ACTION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
UNITED WE DREAM ACTION draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $635k 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.
Organizations like UNITED WE DREAM ACTION
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 33 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WE DREAM ACTION: 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 UNITED WE DREAM ACTION?
- UNITED WE DREAM ACTION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,027,500 to it, the largest being OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC ($3,800,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WE DREAM ACTION have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $9,027,500 in grants to UNITED WE DREAM ACTION, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WE DREAM ACTION?
- OPEN SOCIETY ACTION FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WE DREAM ACTION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 17 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing