Dream With Me Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273263608
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2010, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Pasadena, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6263446018
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,117
- Expenses
- $8,116
- Assets
- $207,386
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Paula Aghajanian (President & CEO)
- Laura Pohopien (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Paula Aghajanian (President & CEO)
- Laura Pohopien (Vice President)
- Fred Balian (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
With no limitation as to education, race or religion, Dream With Me Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing students and non-professional musicians of all ages accessibility to vocal and instrumental performance, education and training through scholarships and grants.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -58.6%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 25.55; rating input score 97; 97th 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: -19.7% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.