Dream Come True

Analysis

Dream Come True is a registered charity in United States, based in Lehigh Valley, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1985, 41 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, Dream Come True reported income of $607k and spending of $537k, spending 88% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $507k to $607k (+20%), an average of +4.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 35%. Over the whole period it spent 73% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Dream Come True sits at the 58th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 73rd percentile, and in the 71st percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Limb Kind Foundation Inc ($607k), West Coast Sports Medicine Foundation ($607k) and University of Vermont Medical Center Auxiliary ($607k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 74% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $47k (8.8% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $2.8m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $2.8m. It reported 1 employees.