American Dream Center
Legal name: American Dream Center Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821478321
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Tulsa, OK, USA
- Phone
- (539) 202-7702
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $120,707
- Expenses
- $124,824
- Assets
- $23,907
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Vera Burgess (Executive Director)
- Elissa Stiles (President)
People named in this filing
- Vera Burgess (Executive Director)
- Elissa Stiles (President)
- Lana Vu (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to help immigrants achieve their American Dream through low cost immigration services, advocacy and assistance with housing, social services, job placement, and beyond.
What it reported doing in 2024
The american dream center institute provides legal representation before the united states citizenship and immigration services by department of justice accredited representatives for both us citizen (naturalized and by birth) and foreign-born clients. The areas of representation include family petitions, citizenship applications, adjustments of status, consular processing, daca renewals, u visa and vawa petitions, residency renewals, and removal of conditions. In 2024 we served over 93 clients in the area of immigration services in addition to servicing clients from previous years with ongoing cases.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 65% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 52% for direct work, and 48% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 84.6%; rating input score 85; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.4%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.4%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $125K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.