The Dreampower Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 300154433
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2012
- Location
- Gillroy, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4086860535
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $710,221
- Expenses
- $743,900
- Assets
- $106,677
- Liabilities
- $10,782
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Garry Stauber (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Martha McNeil (Executive Dir.): $94,035 total reported compensation
- Garry Stauber (President): $52,739 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The DreamPower Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that provides Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy and Therapeutic Horsemanship programs and services to children, teens and adults with mental, emotional, behavioral and medical problems.
What it reported doing in 2024
The DreamPower Foundation 2024ACCOMPLISHMENTS FOR 2024DreamPower received a Mentored Internship Program Round 2 grant from the California Department of Health Behavioral Health Workforce Development Program. This grant was renewed for a second round of funding for Oct. 2023 Dec. 2024. Sixteen bachelors and masters level psychotherapy interns participated in the Mentored Internship Program Round 2 grant, helping to develop a more robust behavioral health work force for CaliforniaLeadership 2 Partnership 25 volunteers participated in 4 weekly Leadership 2 Partnership classes, training the therapy horses in ground work and training the volunteers on how to handle the therapy horses consistently, increasing their longevity in the program.Horses for Warriors Four free weekly support groups were offered year-round, facilitated by licensed psychotherapists, for US military veterans from all branches and all eras. Individual counseling and volunteer opportunities are also available for military veterans.LEOS (Law Enforcement Officers Support) Project this year-round project offers professional counseling and peer support with other law enforcement officers at DreamPower through horse activities, counseling, volunteering, and knife-making and leather working classes for active, retired, reserve, injured and admin leave law enforcement officers. The LEOS Project co-sponsored a Law Enforcement Family Day at the Ranch in April.Hitch Team (Therapeutic Carriage Driving) - Carriage driving lessons and training for DreamPower volunteers and carriage driving lessons for the community.Gilroy Strong Resiliency Center DreamPower psychotherapists provided individual and group psychotherapy and workshops for children and adults impacted by mass violence at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in 2019.Operation Freedom Paws DreamPower provides psychotherapists at four weekly service dog training classes and a weekly anger management group for military veterans at Operation Freedom Paws.San Jose Police Department DreamPower staff presented three times during 2024 on Trauma and EMDR to the San Jose Police Department Crisis Intervention Training Academy for new police officers.January 2024 Webinar Becoming the Designated Calm Person presented for DreamPower volunteers and the community by Lasell Bartlett, MSW. Leadership 2 Partnership hosted the DreamPower Volunteer Potluck and Lightfest, held after dark in an arena lit up with holiday lights.February 2024 Professional Counselor Intern Chris Henriquez was interviewed about DreamPower for Telemundo 48 television news.March 2024 The first Read to a Horse Day was held at DreamPower. 38 families from the community came to read to a horse (and a donkey, sheep, goat, cow, chicken, duck or alpaca).April 2024 The Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship (PATH) Intl. Region 11 awards were presented to Julie Whelan for Region 11 Volunteer of the Year, Alexander Wolf for Region 11 Equine Caretaker of the Year and Tango for Region 11 Therapy Horse of the Year. Poppy and Daisy (two Chincoteague Ponies) attended the Horsemanship Over Obstacles clinic at De Frates Horsemanship. On April 27, twenty law enforcement families participated in a Law Enforcement Family Day at the Ranch, held in collaboration with the Peace Officer Wives of California and Taji 100.May 2024 - San Jose State University IT Project Management Class completed upgrading and overhauling the DreamPower website for a class project.June 2024 Twenty campers and 80 volunteers participated in the 17th Annual DreamPower Camp for Children with Special Needs. Poppy and Daisy participated in the Happy Trails Summer Camp for children with special needs in Visalia, CA and also Baby Boot Camp at De Frates Horsemanship in Gilroy, CA. Poppy and Daisys story was included in the book Out of the Sea: Today's Chincoteague Pony (2nd Edition) by Lois Szymanski.July 2024 A high school senior Girl Scout began working on her Girl Scout Gold Award project at DreamPower.A
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 73% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 72
- Accountability: 68
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.3%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 88.3%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $17.89 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.7%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.14; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.7%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.9% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 92.3% of revenue deployed · 88.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $657K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $94K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 32 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 8 of 8 not reported.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Independent members within voting members did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.