Delaware Regional Dream Center Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
852159840
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2022
Location
Newark, DE, USA
Phone
3022867406
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Christianity
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,066,980
Expenses
$943,083
Assets
$544,971
Liabilities
$128,348

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CHRISTOPHER DITO (FOUNDER & PRESIDENT)
  • MATT MORRISON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • MATT MORRISON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $54,534 total reported compensation
  • CHRISTOPHER DITO (FOUNDER & PRESIDENT): $9,452 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Provide community outreach to individuals by coordinating services and/or referrals that fulfill life's basic necessities. We motivate those individuals to achieve a more fulfilled standard of living. We create, develop, and sustain programs to address our communities needs.

What it reported doing in 2025

During 2025, Delaware regional dream center inc. Provided outreach and community support services focused on hunger relief, life enrichment, education, and volunteer engagement. Program accomplishments included: distributed 190,263 pounds of food through the organization's hunger relief program, serving 4,312 participants in the community.provided support through the living free program, serving 18 participants through programs designed to promote personal growth and empowerment.conducted 12 community outreach events, including the distribution of more than 2,000 thanksgiving meals to individuals and families in need.supported youth education through the dream readers after-school program, serving 20 students through literacy and academic enrichment activities.engaged 648 volunteers from 12 organizations, who contributed 2,035 volunteer hours in support of the organization's programs and community outreach efforts.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 77
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 57
  • Sustainability: 44
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 75.7%; rating input score 76
  • Program expense ratio: 85.7%; rating input score 86
  • Fundraising efficiency: $18.03 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 11.6%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.58; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6.8%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 20.1% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 75.7% of revenue deployed · 85.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $808K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $55K · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 52/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 46/100.