Catch a Dream Foundation

Analysis

Catch a Dream Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Starkville, MS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Catch a Dream Foundation reported income of $1.3m and spending of $1.3m, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.1m to $1.3m (+21%), an average of +4.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 49%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Catch a Dream Foundation sits at the 67th percentile: it is larger than about 67% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 84th percentile within MS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include South Sound Care Foundation ($1.3m), Health Workforce New York Inc ($1.3m) and Saint Elizabeth Foundation ($1.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 86% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $402k. At year end it held assets of $4.4m against liabilities of $43k, net assets of $4.3m. It reported 6 employees.