Tennessee · Nonprofit
WEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER
WEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER (Tennessee) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,293,482 to it, the largest being HUGH AND CHARLOTTE MACLELLAN CHARITABLE CHARITABLE TRUST ($960,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What West Nashville Dream Center does
Mission
We are a ministry center committed to protecting and empowering those in our community living in distress.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Next gen ministry - we conducted our eighth year of our summer days program. This program is a free walk up camp that exists to ensure that no child goes hungry during out of school months. We served 617 meals to children during the program, and we hosted volunteers from 10 states to provide a high-quality camp experience. We also continued this year serving kids with our north nashville after school program. This program is for elementary school children. We enrolled 30 students from robert churchwell elementary school. The program was focused on tutoring, social emotional learning, and fine arts activities. Additionally, we served over 2,000 meals each semester of the school year.
$223,763 spent12% of program spendingCommunity outreach - we provided various resources to community members such as counseling, personal care items, utilities relief, and community wide holiday events. We also supported a local non-profit child care center with grant funds to allow them to provide free or reduced child care to single parents.
$388,891 spentof which $202,149 as grants20% of program spendingJob readiness - this felony friendly program expanded to welcome impoverished males living in the 37208 area of north nashville. Participates receive soft skill and job specific skill training for a variety of hands-on industries.
$58,452 spent3% of program spendingFood ministry - this program remains one of our largest programs, especially with the rising cost of living in middle tn and record high inflation. We distributed 560,271 pounds of fresh groceries to 42,585 individuals. We increased our food partners in the area and we now pick up food donations 24 times per week and distibute to 11 separate sites in west and north nashville. Moms ministry - the moms program serves approximately 35 under-resourced mothers and their children by providing them with a weekly support group, supplemental groceries, and life skills classes. Programming includes goal setting, cooking classes, field trips, art activities and personal growth classes. Dream housing grant - the dream housing grant program is a financial literacy and education program with the goal of moving minority individuals into first time home ownership. Enrollees are paired with a mentor and given requirements to maintain good standing in the program. They are provided with a monthy rent stipend to facilitate them paying down debt and establishing a savings account. At the completion of the porgram, some will qualify for a down payment matching grant. Transition housing - the james r…
$1,273,173 spent65% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,944,279.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $1.5M to $2.5M (+67%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 15% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of WEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Rosa Castano Ellett
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $48k → $793k.
11 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 WEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 funders by total. 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
WEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
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 WEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 63% · 2019 51% · 2020 35% · 2021 48% · 2022 33% · 2023 44% — 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 WEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
78% of WEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $800k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
WEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER?
- WEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER (Tennessee) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,293,482 to it, the largest being HUGH AND CHARLOTTE MACLELLAN CHARITABLE CHARITABLE TRUST ($960,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $3,293,482 in grants to WEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER?
- HUGH AND CHARLOTTE MACLELLAN CHARITABLE CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $960,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 41 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