Spectrum Dreams
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 993354445
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2025
- Location
- Glendora, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6268857247
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Developmentally Disabled Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $57,061
- Expenses
- $28,930
- Assets
- $29,171
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Shaohong Cheng (CEO)
People named in this filing
- Shaohong Cheng (CEO)
- Ge Tian (CFO)
- Bifei Duan (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
Spectrum Dreams is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering individuals with autism and other disabilities through inclusive music program. The organization provides structured instruction and performance opportunities for neurodivergent children and youth to promote social development, and personal confidence.
What it reported doing in 2025
Spectrum Dreams hosted six inclusive concerts and community outreach events across five cities in the greater Los Angeles area In 2025, including Claremont, Arcadia, Irvine, Lake Forest, and Cypress. The Spectrum Dreams delivered 343 hours of individual and group music instruction to 31 children and youth, including 21 individuals with special needs, primarily children with autism. The organization hosted six inclusive concerts and community outreach events across five cities in the greater Los Angeles area In 2025, including Claremont, Arcadia, Irvine, Lake Forest, and Cypress. In addition, Spectrum Dreams trained over 30 volunteers, primarily high school students, to support children with special needs. This included two specialized workshops led by a Special Education Specialist. These programs contributed to improved well-being among participating children, supporting their emotional development, social engagement, and confidence. Participants were able to discover and meaningfully develop their musical talents. The concerts and outreach events received strong community engagement, including local media coverage, and helped raise public awareness of the abilities, talents, and needs of individuals with disabilities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 74% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 79% for direct work, and 21% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 50.7%; rating input score 51
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 49.3%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.01; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.7%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 50.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $29K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 1 filing year from 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 51/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.