Dreaming for Change USA

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
851876832
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Fleetwood, NC, USA
Rating
47
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Single Organization Support

Reported finances

Revenue
$94,107
Expenses
$93,637
Assets
$12,393
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Constance R Green (President)

People named in this filing

  • Constance R Green (President)
  • Gael Wood (Secretary)
  • Barry F Thomas (Treasurer)

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

Charitable relief of poverty in rural Burundi communities by providing grant funding and technical support to registered local non-government service providers. Specific service activities supported include nutrition and rehabilitative services early childhood educational programming girls high school scholarship support and womens entrepreneurial educational and emergency support.

What it reported doing in 2024

Womens Scholarship and Income Generation Programming -- In the 2024-2025 school year 40 high school girls received scholarships covering tuition fees textbooks uniforms sanitary supplies and tutoring support. Two recent high school graduates are now in the second year of their university education for which all tuition room and board costs are covered by their scholarships. All students from the preschoold to the university students continue to benefit from resources made available throug h the American Shelf and library programs administered in cooperation with the United States Embassy. As part of the mission to improve family food security and enhance womens income generation potential access to a 2.5-acre parcel of land was acquired and a community farm education program was established in fiscal 2024-2025 to provide in-depth training for women farmers on modern agricultural techniques sustainable practice and business development skills. 25 women cultivated the land and

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

MIXED - 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: 1
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 41
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 1.2%; rating input score 1
  • Program expense ratio: 1.2%; rating input score 1

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: 0.5%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 19.1% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 12.3% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -19.8% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 1.2% of revenue deployed · 1.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 1/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 1/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.