· Private foundation
Circle of Dreams Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| GREAT OLE BROADS FOR WILDERNESS | $15,000 |
| ARTISTS FOR SOUP | $14,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $13,500 |
| YOUTH GARDEN PROJECT | $7,580 |
| PARTNERS OF DELTA MONTROSE | $5,000 |
| LEUKEMIA LYMPHOMA SOCIETY LLS | $1,050 |
| RIDGWAY PICKELBALL CLUB | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $525 |
| OURAY COUNTY CARES | $195 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- AFARTISTS FOR SOUP INC4× · 2022–2025 · $47k · revenue +223%
- YGYOUTH GARDEN PROJECT2× · 2023–2025 · $11k · revenue +8%
- FOFRIENDS OF YOUTH AND NATURE2× · 2023–2024 · $9k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- MRMOUNTAIN ROOTSone grant, 2022 · $12k
- LLLSone grant, 2022 · $1k
- TGTHE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +77%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To build an abundant, resilient, and valued local food system that supports our landscape, our farmers, ranchers, and food artisans, and our community.
Friends of the owyhee exists to promote conservation advocacy, stewardship, and recreation in the owyhee region.
Gunnison Trails is a non-profit trail advocacy organization established to assist land managers and other organizations in maintaining existing trails, educating users on responsible trail-based recreation, and pursuing opportunities for…
Mutual aid partners is a network that supports and connects grassroots efforts in mesa county colorado, by facilitating communication, education, boosting collaboration and accessibility to resources & volunteers.
To cultivate a resilient food system in the gunnison valley by enhancing healthy connections between food, earth, and community by fostering knowledge, teaching skills, and providing opportunities that ensure access to affordable,…
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
To grow colorado's food system to be more productive, accessible and secure.
Yampatika's mission is to inspire environmental stewardship through education. They fulfil that mission by developing environmental learning opportunities that serve the children and adults of Northwest Colorado.
The mission of the Colorado Wildlife Heritage Foundation is to provide a legacy for Colorado through support of environmental stewardship conservation of wildlife and the protection of critical habitat.
We use sustainable agriculture to transform the lives of young people and increase access to healthy food in Garfield County.
To create equitable access to nature in all communities and inspire a diverse new generation of environmental leaders.
First Light Foundation makes films about environmental issues that rely on public support since they lack sufficient commercial value to interest commercial film producers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mountainfilm and the most unlike its peers is Empowerment International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ARTISTS FOR SOUP INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS ↗
- Who funds EMPOWERMENT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds YOUTH GARDEN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF YOUTH AND NATURE ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Home Trust of Ouray County ↗
- Who funds THE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAINFILM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WRIGHT OPERA HOUSE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Telluride Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Circle of Dreams Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.