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Dakota Foundation Dtd 122997

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$525k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
86%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 12
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$18M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 86% of the organizations Dakota Foundation Dtd 122997 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 78% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $179k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23
Housing & ShelterHuman ServicesEmploymentCommunity ImprovementHealthEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving13$440k54%
FY20237$229k86%
FY202212$603k75%
FY202111$536k100%
FY20209$358kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$400kCommunity Improvement$325kEducation$322kCrime & Legal$305kHuman Services$217kHealth$188kEmployment$174kYouth Development$155kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ND
MN
NY
SD
RI
CA
CO
NM
NC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Saranam LLC$100,00012%
Step Denver$100,00013%
Fii - National$100,00010%
We Fortify$83,000110%
Benevolence Farm$80,000114%
Pikes Peak State College Foundation Inc$75,00013%
Goodwill of Colorado$71,20010%
Rocky Mountain Microfinance$70,00013%
Mindfulness and Positivity Project$67,600220%
Brink Literacy Project$60,000221%
Show all 32 grantees
All grantees of Dakota Foundation Dtd 122997 by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Saranam LLC$100,00012%
Step Denver$100,00013%
Fii - National$100,00010%
We Fortify$83,000110%
Benevolence Farm$80,000114%
Pikes Peak State College Foundation Inc$75,00013%
Goodwill of Colorado$71,20010%
Rocky Mountain Microfinance$70,00013%
Mindfulness and Positivity Project$67,600220%
Brink Literacy Project$60,000221%
The Lost and Found Association$60,0001n/a
Denverworks Inc$60,00012%
Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado Inc$50,00015%
The Thrive Network$50,000123%
Npx Charitable Inc$50,0001n/a
Advance Inc$50,00022%
Veterans Yoga Project Inc$41,50024%
Catherine's House$40,00015%
Blue Star Recyclers$35,00013%
Converge Lecture Series$35,000115%
Jeremiah Program$30,00010%
Ilearn Collaborative$25,00014%
Homeward Pikes Peak$25,00011%
Community Violence Intervention Center$25,00010%
Colorado Springs School District 11$22,0001n/a
Three Sisters Kitchen$20,00012%
Community Enterprise Development Services$19,00020%
The Capital Good Fund$15,00010%
First Southwest Community Fund$10,00011%
Foundation for Black Entrepreneurship$6,00011%
Eastern Plains Chamber of Commerce$5,0001n/a
Prodigy Ventures Inc$5,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($680k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dakota Foundation Dtd 122997 supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSaranam LLC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetStep Denver: $100,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetFii - National: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWe Fortify: $83,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetBenevolence Farm: $80,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetPikes Peak State College Foundation Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetGoodwill of Colorado: $71,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRocky Mountain Microfinance: $70,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMindfulness and Positivity Project: $67,600 over 2y, 20% of budgetBrink Literacy Project: $60,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetDenverworks Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBreakthrough Alliance of Colorado Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetThe Thrive Network: $50,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetAdvance Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetVeterans Yoga Project Inc: $41,500 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetCatherine's House: $40,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetBlue Star Recyclers: $35,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetConverge Lecture Series: $35,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetJeremiah Program: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIlearn Collaborative: $25,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetHomeward Pikes Peak: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCommunity Violence Intervention Center: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThree Sisters Kitchen: $20,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCommunity Enterprise Development Services: $19,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Capital Good Fund: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFirst Southwest Community Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFoundation for Black Entrepreneurship: $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetProdigy Ventures Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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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.

The Denver FoundationCO26.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Kenneth Kendal King Foundation · Daniels Fund · The Colorado Health Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · Bee Vradenburg Foundation · Ent Credit Union

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Dakota Foundation Dtd 122997?

Find your warmest path to Dakota Foundation Dtd 122997 through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Dakota Foundation Dtd 122997

How much does Dakota Foundation Dtd 122997 give?
Dakota Foundation Dtd 122997 reported 15 grants totaling $524,769 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Dakota Foundation Dtd 122997 fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (17%), Community Improvement (14%), Education (14%).
Who are Dakota Foundation Dtd 122997's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Saranam LLC ($100k), Step Denver ($100k), Fii - National ($100k).
Does Dakota Foundation Dtd 122997 fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 86% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dakota Foundation Dtd 122997 accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dakota Foundation Dtd 122997?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Denver Foundation, Kenneth Kendal King Foundation, Daniels Fund.
Where is Dakota Foundation Dtd 122997 based?
Dakota Foundation Dtd 122997 is based in CO.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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