Dream Big Scholarship Fund Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 824811178
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- San Antonio, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2105707096
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $76,487
- Expenses
- $60,462
- Assets
- $46,140
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- CHARLES JOHNSON (BOARD MEMBER)
- RONNELL BRIGHT (BOARD MEMBER)
- DEBORAH JARMON (BOARD MEMBER)
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
To empower at-risk minority youth to achieve their higher education goals in a traditional or non-traditional setting as well as cultivate their leadership skills, and increase their self-confidence through enrichment activities, initiatives, educational and economic resources to become successful and life long dreamers.
What it reported doing in 2024
To empower at-risk minority youth to achieve their higher education goals in a traditional or non-traditional setting as well as cultivate their leadership skills and increase their self-confidence through enrichment activities initiatives educational and economic resources to become successful and life long dreamers.
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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue 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: 50
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 46.2%; rating input score 46
- Program expense ratio: 58.4%; rating input score 58
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 21%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.76; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 22.7% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 42% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 46.2% of revenue deployed · 58.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $35K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 46/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.