CHILDRENS DREAM FUND INC

As filed

Subsection

03

Classification

1000

Street

1600 23RD AVE N

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 · 2025

• THE CHILDREN'S DREAM FUND ENTERED ITS 44TH YEAR OF MAKING DREAMS COME TRUE FOR CHILDREN WITH LIFE-THREATENING ILLNESSES LIVING THROUGHOUT WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA. THE CHILDREN'S DREAM FUND COMPLETED 132 DREAMS IN 2025 WITH 130 IN PROCESS AT THE END OF THE YEAR. CHILDREN ARE REFERRED TO THE CHILDREN'S DREAM FUND BY JOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN'S, TAMPA GENERAL, ST. JOSEPH'S CHILDREN'S, GOLISANO, SHANDS, ARNOLD PALMER, AND SABAL PALMS CHILDREN'S CENTER. THE CHILDREN'S DREAM FUND POLICY IS TO NEVER DENY A DESERVING CHILD A DREAM-COME-TRUE, AND TO PROVIDE AGE-APPROPRIATE DREAMS IN A TIMELY MANNER. DREAMS INCLUDE THE ENTIRE FAMILY, AND THE GOAL IS TO MAKE THE PROCESS AS STRESS-FREE AS POSSIBLE FOR THE CHILD AND THE FAMILY, AND TO CREATE MEMORIES THAT LAST A LIFETIME. CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES WORK WITH THE DREAM DEPARTMENT, WHO ARE FULLTIME EMPLOYEES FOR THE CHILDREN'S DREAM FUND, AND HELP PLAN AND IMPLEMENT THE DREAM. DREAMS INCLUDE TRIPS, CRUISES, AND MEETINGS WITH CELEBRITIES, SHOPPING OR A TANGIBLE ITEM SUCH AS COMPUTERS, BEDROOM MAKEOVERS, MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. IN ADDITION TO FULFILLING EVERY CHILD'S DREAM, STEWARDSHIP IS OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE. DONATED ITEMS AND SERVICES CAN HELP LOWER THE COST OF DREAMS.

  Expenses $2,089,809 · Grants $1,529,679 · Revenue $2,140,368

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2025

  Revenue

  $2,874,775

  Expenses

  $2,375,447

  Contributions

  $2,140,368

  Grants paid

  $1,529,679

• 2024

  Revenue

  $2,868,740

  Expenses

  $2,129,334

  Contributions

  $2,105,868

  Grants paid

  $1,261,085

• 2023

  Revenue

  $2,636,792

  Expenses

  $2,944,867

  Contributions

  $2,083,737

  Grants paid

  $2,024,854

• 2022

  Revenue

  $2,507,028

  Expenses

  $2,596,060

  Contributions

  $1,971,861

  Grants paid

  $1,748,788

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

  $2,103,937

  Expenses

  $2,171,665

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,787,833

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,111,105

  Expenses

  $1,021,503

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,734,516

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,667,640

  Expenses

  $1,556,115

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,428,467

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,762,683

  Expenses

  $1,351,650

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,133,491

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,288,389

  Expenses

  $1,233,106

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,864,369

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,413,294

  Expenses

  $1,249,602

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,740,143

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.

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

• RAYS BASEBALL FOUNDATION INC

  $50,000

  2022 · DREAMING LIKE IT'S 1981

• POLYWOGS CHARITIES INC

  $45,000

  2025 · OPERATIONS

• POLYWOGS CHARITIES INC

  $40,000

  2024 · OPERATIONS

• POLYWOGS CHARITIES INC

  $35,000

  2023 · DONATION

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $27,750

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• RAYS BASEBALL FOUNDATION INC

  $26,000

  2023 · RELIEVER GRANT

• OPL CHARITIES

  $25,000

  2023 · General Operating Support

• OPL CHARITIES

  $25,000

  2022 · General Operating Support

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $23,050

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND

  $20,911

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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