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DREAMPOWER FOUNDATION INC

EIN 30-0154433 GILROY, CA

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Revenue 2024
$710,221
Expenses 2024
$743,900

Program services were 88.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P80
Classification
1000
Street
7445 CREWS RD

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

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.

  • 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.August 2024 DreamPower had an information booth at the Gilroy Rodeo.October 2024 DreamPower Director Martha McNiel published her first childrens picture book called Poppy and Daisys Big Adventure. This is the first book in The DreamPower Tales series of true stories about real animals who help people at DreamPower and beyond. Poppy and Daisys Big Adventure is available in English, Spanish and Ukrainian. Poppy and Daisy graduated from Baby Boot Camp for young horses at De Frates Horsemanship in Gilroy, CA. DreamPower began a partnership with the Santa Clara County District Attorneys Office and the 526 Resilience Center (for survivors of the 5/26 Valley Transit Authority mass shooting).November 2024 Home Depot team members participated in a Home Depot District Work Day at DreamPower, beautifying the ranch and gifting us with a Tuff Shed storage shed (assembled by professionals). Gilroy Walmart sponsored the second Read to a Horse Day at the ranch. More than 75 families participated in Read to a Horse Day.December 2024 The Second Annual Poinsettias, Pancakes, Ponies and Pictures Holiday Breakfast was served for our community. DreamPower was honored to welcome three staff members from Victory Center in Kyiv, Ukraine as our guests for three days at DreamPower. Our Ukrainian guests met with our DreamPower veterans and learned about working with military veterans from the DreamPower staff. DreamPower hosted a community dinner where our guests shared about life and working with military veterans and children affected by war in Ukraine. The Girl Scout Gold Award Project was completed, which included translating Poppy and Daisys Big Adventure into Spanish and Ukrainian, and donating 200 copies of the book to children at Victory Center in Kyiv, Ukraine.PartnershipsAmerican Legion Post 419 (Santa Clara)Veterans Administration Palo Alto Health CenterSan Jose Police DepartmentSan Jose Police Officers AssociationGilroy Chamber of CommerceMorgan Hill Chamber of CommerceEmbark Residential Treatment ProgramGilroy Strong Resiliency Center526 Resiliency CenterSanta Clara County District Attorneys OfficeOperation Freedom PawsCommunity SolutionsRebekah Childrens ServicesNatural Lifemanship InstituteGilroy Police DepartmentGilroy RodeoGilroy WalmartSt. Louise Regional HospitalSouth Valley Community ChurchProfessional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship (PATH), Intl.Victory Center, Kyiv, UkrainePeace Officer Wives of CaliforniaTaji 100San Jose State University IT Project Management ClassGilroy Assistance LeagueGirl ScoutsHome DepotPacific Scientific Energetic Materials CompanyTeam Lewis Foundation

    Expenses $657,144

  • DreamPower Foundation Inc. (DBA DreamPower Horsemanship) is a Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship (PATH) International Premier Accredited Center and a 501c3 non-profit charitable organization founded in 2002. For the past 18 years, DreamPower has provided equine-assisted psychotherapy and therapeutic horsemanship programs and services for children, teens, adults and elders with a wide variety of mental, emotional, physical and behavioral special needs. Now located at WoodMyst Farm in Gilroy, DreamPower provided services to 835 children, teens, adults and elders in 2019 through more than twenty equine-assisted programs, including the following:Equine Facilitated PsychotherapyAutism Research Groups (for children on the autism spectrum)Horses for Warriors (for military veterans of all eras and branches)Law Enforcement Family Day at the Ranch John F. Kennedy University Masters in Holistic Counseling classes Horses for Warriors Family Day at the Ranch (military veterans and families)Twelfth Annual DreamPower Camp for Children with Special NeedsSunnyvale Elks Family Day at the Ranch (for children on the autism spectrum)Womens Personal Growth Group Farm Friends (social skills groups for children)Horse Power: Living Strong with MS (for adults with multiple sclerosis) Therapeutic Horsemanship Lessons Equine Empowerment for Elders (for elders with high functioning dementia)LEOS Youth groups (for children from law enforcement families)The Hitch Team (therapeutic carriage driving program) Fire Buddies (for children affected by wildfire)Interactive Vaulting (social skills and gymnastics on horseback)Womens Harvest Circle (for women with anxiety and depression) Gilroy Strong Resiliency Center (for persons affected by the Gilroy Garlic Festival shootings)Sensory Friendly Trick or Treat Party (for children with special needs)

  • DreamPower Horsemanship has a long history of partnering with and working alongside a wide variety of community organizations. DreamPower regularly partners with the following organizations and agencies:Evolve Treatment CenterWounded Warrior ProjectSan Jose Vet CenterSanta Clara County Office of Education Adaptive Physical Education Post-Secondary ProgramOperation Freedom PawsGilroy Strong Resiliency CenterLearning ServicesProfessional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship Intl. (PATH Intl.)San Jose Police DepartmentSunnyvale Department of Public SafetyJohn F. Kennedy UniversityPalo Alto UniversitySunnyvale ElksGilroy After Hours RotaryGavilan College Veteran ServicesNational Multiple Sclerosis SocietyGirl ScoutsBoy ScoutsAdvent Group MinistriesChamberlain Childrens ServicesCommunity SolutionsLifeMoves (homeless shelters)

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Martha McNeil

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $94,035
    From this org
    $94,035
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Garry Stauber

    President

    Total calculated
    $52,739
    From this org
    $52,739
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Julie Whelan

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Gloria Frederico

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $710,221
    Expenses
    $743,900
    Contributions
    $517,298
    Grants paid
    $18,727
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $703,782
    Expenses
    $708,119
    Contributions
    $537,983
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $579,378
    Expenses
    $580,755
    Contributions
    $406,532
    Grants paid
    $1,929

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $371,459
    Expenses
    $438,079
    Assets (EOY)
    $179,920

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $443,045
    Expenses
    $464,485
    Assets (EOY)
    $246,540

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $315,442
    Expenses
    $360,475
    Assets (EOY)
    $260,980

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $553,733
    Expenses
    $349,406
    Assets (EOY)
    $306,013

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $354,234
    Expenses
    $322,061
    Assets (EOY)
    $101,686

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $287,257
    Expenses
    $257,574
    Assets (EOY)
    $69,398

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $216,934
    Expenses
    $210,103
    Assets (EOY)
    $39,715

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $210,853
    Expenses
    $211,694
    Assets (EOY)
    $40,564

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $195,250
    Expenses
    $187,815
    Assets (EOY)
    $41,405

  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $178,904
    Expenses
    $180,201
    Assets (EOY)
    $34,210

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.