Dermer Dreams Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
384172500
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Fair Haven, NJ, USA
Phone
7327043177
Rating
96
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Food Programs

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$99,882
Expenses
$103,000
Assets
$40,504
Liabilities
$5,041

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

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DANIEL DERMER (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • DANIEL DERMER (PRESIDENT)
  • MICHAEL DERMER (DIRECTOR)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Dermer dreams is a grassroots nonprofit powered by teenagers to reduce food insecurity. Our mission is to engage students in the fight against hunger and raise one million pounds of food for people who are food insecure. Dermer dreams has proven that an effective way to get food to people who are food insecure is through the energy, drive and ingenuity of teenagers and partnerships with local food banks and pantries. Dermer dreams is a one-stop shop with the knowledge, tools and ongoing support for students to manage their own food drive from start to finish, engage directly with their local community and gain invaluable experience while earning community service hours.

What it reported doing in 2025

To engage students in the fight against hunger and raise one million pounds of food for people who are food insecure. Through the energy, drive and ingenuity of teenagers and partnerships with local food banks and pantries, dermer dreams is a one-stop shop with the knowledge, tools and ongoing support for students to manage their own food drive from start to finish, engage directly with their local community and gain invaluable experience while earning community service hours.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% 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.

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: 100
  • Sustainability: 34
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 99.8%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -3.1%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.39; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 98.8% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 62.3% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -2.9% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $103K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.