· Private foundation
Circle of Dreams Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against -8% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Circle of Dreams Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Circle of Dreams Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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