Designing Dreams USA
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 932279888
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Sacramento, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6033963282
- Rating
- 61
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Patient Services - Entertainment, Recreation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $98,153
- Expenses
- $102,759
- Assets
- $65,730
- Liabilities
- $15,929
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kelly O'Donnell (CEO and Secretary)
People named in this filing
- Danny Beck (Chairman)
- Reena Desai (Treasurer)
- Kelly O'Donnell (CEO and 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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Designing Dreams USA is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating healing environments for children facing serious illnesses by transforming their bedrooms into personalized, functional, and uplifting spaces. Through these transformations, the organization aims to improve emotional well-being, provide comfort during treatment and recovery, and support families during challenging times.
What it reported doing in 2025
Designing Dreams USA carried out its charitable mission by providing customized bedroom transformations for children facing serious illnesses. Each project included design planning, furnishings, and installation tailored to the child's medical needs and personal interests, creating a safe, functional, and uplifting space during treatment and recovery. During the year, the organization partnered with hospitals and families to identify children in need and completed multiple bedroom transformations, while also expanding operational capacity and developing infrastructure to support future growth and additional chapters.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 84% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 33
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 33.2%; rating input score 33
- Program expense ratio: 31.7%; rating input score 32
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: -4.7%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.64; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 56.5%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 68.7% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -9% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.9% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 33.2% of revenue deployed · 31.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $33K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.