Permission to Start Dreaming Foundation

Analysis

Permission to Start Dreaming Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Gig Harbor, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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, Permission to Start Dreaming Foundation reported income of $2.1m and spending of $1.5m, leaving 25% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $541k to $2.1m (+280%), an average of +40% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 181%. Over the whole period it spent 85% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Permission to Start Dreaming Foundation sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile, and in the 87th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Rise Education Fund ($2.1m), Licensed Dental Hygiene Care ($2.1m) and U S Friend of Yad Ezrah ($2.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% and program service revenue 0.4% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $236k (15% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $615k. At year end it held assets of $994k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $994k. It reported 15 employees.