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Dream Factory, Inc.

Dream Granting · About this organization

What you get

A dream planned and paid for by a local chapter, based on what your child hopes to do.

How to start

Your treating doctor confirms the illness. You or your child can start through the referral page or national office and describe the dream.

Good to know

  • Only a child, parent/legal guardian, or treating physician may refer; friend referrals are not accepted.
  • Residence must be in a community served by an active chapter, generally near the chapter city.

The details, as published

B-ALL is in scope Call To Confirm Care team starts the request

A local volunteer chapter grants one child-selected dream to an eligible child age 3–18 with a physician-documented critical or chronic illness who lives in a chapter-served community.

Go to the official program ↗

What help you may get

Wishes And Family Experiences

Personalized dream fulfillment

A local chapter plans and funds a qualifying child's communicated dream; examples include trips and requested items, while exact value and exclusions are chapter- and dream-specific.

Amount decided by the program · One Time

Can cover

  • A child-selected dream approved and coordinated by the local chapter
  • A child who has already received another organization's wish is ineligible.

Check the main eligibility rules

Diagnosis

B-ALL is in scope. B-ALL is a critical pediatric illness and fits the published critical-or-chronic illness rule when affirmed by the treating physician.

Age

Age 3 to age 18, measured at application.

  • An approved dream for an 18-year-old must be fulfilled before the 19th birthday under the published operating procedures.

Treatment status

No specific treatment status is published.

  • A treating physician must document and affirm the critical or chronic illness.
  • The child must not have received a wish or dream from another wish-granting organization.
  • Dreams are granted without regard to economic status.
  • No economic-status test is published.

Where you live and where your child is treated

Where your family lives

You must live in: Active chapter states listed by the national chapter finder; residence must be in a community actually served by a chapter, typically within about 50 miles..

  • Referral is considered only for a child who resides in a community where a chapter exists; chapters typically serve about a 50-mile radius.

Where your child is treated

Treatment-location rules are not published clearly; confirm with the program.

How to get started

Does a social worker or care team need to start it? Yes. Ask your child’s social worker or care team to begin the request.

Who can start: Parent Or Guardian, Patient, Physician

  1. Confirm an active local chapter serves the child's home community, typically within about 50 miles.
  2. Use the official referral page or contact the national office; only the child, parent/legal guardian, or treating physician may refer.
  3. Document and affirm the child's critical or chronic illness without delegating clinical authorship or signature.
  4. Screen eligibility and speak with the child so the child can communicate the requested dream.

Ways to apply or ask

  • Web Form · Open form or page — The official page labels an embedded Referral Form, but its dynamic controls were not exposed to the research fetch.

Documents to prepare

  • Treating-physician documentation affirming the child's critical or chronic illness.
  • The local chapter screens and approves the request, then assigns volunteers to coordinate the dream; detailed timing is not published.

Availability and timing

ProgramActive
ApplicationsCall To Confirm
Funding or spaceLimited
Application windowRolling
Last checkedAug 27, 2026
  • The national referral page is active, but eligibility depends on a serving chapter and local capacity.
  • No national deadline is published; chapter geography, volunteer capacity, and funding control fulfillment.

Limitations and things to confirm

  • Only a child, parent/legal guardian, or treating physician may refer; friend referrals are not accepted.
  • Residence must be in a community served by an active chapter, generally near the chapter city.
  • The child must communicate the dream and must not have received another wish.
  • The embedded form fields, physician-document format, deadlines, values, exclusions, and review timing are not fully published.
  • Does an active chapter serve the family's exact residence?
  • What full form, physician-document, signature, deadline, and post-referral rules apply at the serving chapter?

Official sources

Program details were last verified Aug 27, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.

Official program