1000 Dreams Fund

Washington, DC · EIN 812276245 · Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards · IRS code B82

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Their finances

from their own IRS Form 990, fiscal year 2024
Total revenue
$386K
$385,648
From donations
48%
$184K of revenue
Highest reported salary
$9K
CHRISTIE GARTON
Spending breakdown — and why we do not lead with it
Spent on programmes
79%
$318K of $400K spent

A high figure here is not straightforwardly good. The measure counts money spent on programmes against money spent running the organisation, so it rewards charities that under-invest in staff, systems and evaluation — and it can be moved by accounting choices rather than by doing more. The largest charity raters publicly abandoned it as a headline measure for exactly that reason. It is here because it is on the filing and people look for it, not because we think it tells you who to give to.

Employees
0
Volunteers
300
Total spending
$400K
Staff costs
$9K

No comparison shown. We list only 1 charity under this cause with a filing, which is too few to rank against meaningfully. A percentile drawn from a handful of organisations looks precise and means nothing.

Figures are as the organisation reported them to the IRS. We do not adjust, score or rate them, and we do not combine them into a single number — that would require deciding how much each one matters, which is your judgement to make, not ours.

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Against every Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards charity in the country

3,712 filed under IRS code B82 in 2025
From donations
48%
higher than 33% of them
median 75%
Spent on programmes
79%
higher than 30% of them
median 90%
Highest salary
$9K
higher than 78% of them
median $0

A percentile here is a position among charities the IRS classifies the same way — it is not a score, and being lower is not automatically worse. A large organisation running its own veterinary hospitals will spend a different share on programmes than one that passes grants through, and both are doing their job.

Others doing the same thing

IRS code B82 · 3 we list

Every organisation below is classified under the same IRS code, which is what makes putting them in one table defensible. Largest first — not ranked by any of the figures.

CharityRevenueFrom donationsProgrammesTop salary
1000 Dreams Fund — this page
Washington, DC · FY2024
$386K48%79%$9K
Pop Project
Asheville, NC
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Atlas Travel Foundation
Topeka, KS
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A dash means the organisation has not filed a full Form 990 in the years we hold, or files the short return that omits the figure. It is not a zero, and it is not a mark against them.