Gift of Dream Learning Academy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 334573281
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2025
- Location
- Irondale, AL, USA
- Phone
- 4049351684
- Rating
- 35
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Child Day Care
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,579
- Expenses
- $890
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- Mary Craig (Board chair)
- Angela Lewis (Secretary)
- Kimberly Robinson (Vice Chair)
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
The organization? s primary exempt purpose is to provide affordable, high-quality early childhood education and care to children and families. The center supports the cognitive, social-emotional, and physical development of young children through a safe, nurturing, and developmentally appropriate environment. Its programs promote school readiness through structured learning, play-based experiences, and positive social interactions. The organization prioritizes access for working families, including those receiving childcare subsidy assistance. Through these services, the center advances child development while supporting family stability and economic mobility.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Early Childhood Education Program provides full-day childcare and structured learning for children from infancy through preschool age. Services include implementation of age-appropriate curriculum focused on early literacy, language development, math readiness, and problem-solving skills. Upon program launch, the center is prepared to serve an initial 25 children from an existing waitlist, with the capacity to expand services to up to 75 children. The program emphasizes school readiness through a balance of teacher-guided instruction and play-based learning. Children benefit from consistent routines, individualized attention, and developmentally appropriate activities designed to support cognitive growth and early academic success.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 75.1%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd 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: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- 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 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.