I Have A Dream Foundation St Louis
The organization is a private foundation focused on supporting educational initiatives and scholarships. Its mission centers on enhancing educational opportunities, particularly through annual gifts and grants to various educational institutions and programs. The foundation primarily serves youth and educational organizations, with a notable emphasis on charter schools and community service initiatives. It predominantly operates within a specific geographic area, providing significant support to institutions in its local community.
Source: Zeffy Agent · Mar 2026
Ideal Applicant
A small, St. Louis–based education or scholarship-focused nonprofit (schools, scholarship funds, youth education programs) with an existing local connection or a referral to the foundation.
Good Fit
- • Located in St. Louis / Missouri and serving local students or schools.
- • Programs focused on scholarships, K–12 education, or youth/arts education.
- • Existing relationship or introduction to one of the named officers or trustees.
- • Requests for modest, program-specific or scholarship funding rather than large capital grants.
Geography
In the latest year all grants went to organizations in Missouri and are concentrated in St. Louis; across the two observed years nearly all giving remained in-state with only one out-of-state grant in the earlier year.
Recipient Variety
The foundation funded nine distinct independent recipients in the latest year (schools, scholarship funds, and local education charities), showing a modestly broad recipient set for a micro private foundation despite dollar concentration among a few grantees.
New Applicants
The foundation explicitly operates by preselection rather than an open application process, eight of nine 2023 recipients were repeat grantees, and only one new recipient appeared over two years, which together make it unlikely an unfamiliar applicant could enter the portfolio without a local introduction.
Source: Zeffy Agent · Mar 2026
