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VIET DREAMS

VIET DREAMS (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,237,925 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,023,700). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$1.9M
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$2.2M
Net assets
$2.2M
4/8 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Viet Dreams does

Mission

Provide food, clothing, supplies, clean water and funds for orphanages and schools in vietnam.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Built water filtration systems and provided library books, food and clothing for the orphanages in Vietnam. Provided cleft surgery, dental care and oral hygiene for school children in Vietnam. Christmas dinner and toy drive for poor family who live in shelters in San Jose

    $148,886 spentof which $148,886 as grants
    100% of program spending
  2. Music grant for children.

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $148,886.

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 ($134k) Expenses 100 ($115k) Net assets 100 ($153k)2018 Revenue 187 ($250k) Expenses 148 ($170k) Net assets 152 ($233k)2019 Revenue 132 ($177k) Expenses 136 ($156k) Net assets 166 ($254k)2020 Revenue 89 ($119k) Expenses 92 ($106k) Net assets 174 ($267k)2021 Revenue 147 ($197k) Expenses 71 ($82k) Net assets 249 ($382k)2022 Revenue 91 ($122k) Expenses 78 ($90k) Net assets 270 ($414k)2023 Revenue 166 ($222k) Expenses 96 ($110k) Net assets 343 ($526k)2024 Revenue 1406 ($1.9M) Expenses 151 ($173k) Net assets 1458 ($2.2M)
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Revenue (1406)Expenses (151)Net assets (1458)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 2023 to 2024, from $526k to $2.2M (+325%).

$153k
$233k
$254k
$267k
$382k
$414k
$526k
$2.2M
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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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

97% of VIET DREAMS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$19k
’17
$80k
’18
$21k
’19
$13k
’20
$115k
’21
$32k
’22
$112k
’23
$1.7M
’24
36
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.

Chief executive

Quan K Nguyen

President & CEO

Board chair

Anthony My Tran

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

201820232024
Listed333
Joined··+0
No longer listed··0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $3k → $78k.

4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 VIET DREAMS’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

VIET DREAMS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% 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 VIET DREAMS.

90%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 96% · 2019 83% · 2020 54% · 2021 62% · 2022 69% · 2023 60% — 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

80% of VIET DREAMS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

99% of VIET DREAMS'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 $24k that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.

OR
CA
SC

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

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

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

VIET DREAMS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin91% · outside the comparable range
Months of reserve36.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)46% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like VIET DREAMS

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 California

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 14%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds VIET DREAMS?
VIET DREAMS (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,237,925 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,023,700). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does VIET DREAMS have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $2,237,925 in grants to VIET DREAMS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of VIET DREAMS?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,023,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VIET DREAMS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 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