· Private foundation
Dakota Foundation Dtd 122997
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $164k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Step Denver | $100,000 |
| Momentum Advisory Council | $100,000 |
| Pikes Peak Community Foundation | $50,000 |
| Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado | $50,000 |
| Friends of the Children | $50,000 |
| Pikes Peak Community Foundation | $35,000 |
| Social Data Analytics LLC | $25,000 |
| Advance Inc | $25,000 |
| Veterans Yoga Project INC | $24,000 |
| Colorado Springs School District 11 | $22,000 |
| Mindfulness and Positivity Project | $17,600 |
| Community Enterprise Development Services | $15,000 |
| Eastern Plains Chamber of Commerce | $5,000 |
| Prodigy Ventures | $5,000 |
| CHAI Debt Capital LLC | $1,169 |
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 (FY20–24, $271k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Dakota Foundation Dtd 122997’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $307k 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
- PFPPCC FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $150k
- FOFriends of the Children4× · 2021–2024 · $150k
- MAMindfulness and Positivity Project2× · 2022–2024 · $68k · revenue -3%
Funded once
- SLSARANAM LLCone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -36%
- RIRECIDIVIZ INCone grant, 2022 · $100k
FII - NATIONALone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -89%
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.
We provide training, coaching, community supports and access to leading colorado employers enabling coloradans to acheive economic security, mobility and prosperity.
Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.
Advancing economic prosperity of the latino community.
To harness the collective power of nonprofits and philanthropic changemakers to accelerate community impact.
Careerwise's mission is to forge pathways to meaningful careers through bold advocacy, innovative apprenticeships, and industry led partnerships, creating a dynamic talent ecosystem that connects ambition to opportunity for empowered young…
To empower Coloradans affected by mental health conditions and providing them with skills and tools necessary to achieve their personal wellness goal.
To empower women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support, professional attire and development tools to help women thrive in work and in life.
Endeavor colorado is a not-for-profit leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement in colorado to catalyze long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and supporting the best high-impact entrepreneurs in our region. high-impact…
As an innovative social enterprise, The Stride Center's mission is to empower men and women facing barriers to employment to achieve economic self-sufficiency. We provide a comprehensive career development program that includes job skills…
Step Springs is a subsidiary organization of Step Denver and when it opens in 2025 will be the first replication of the Step program. Step is a residential recovery community that gives men with nowhere else to turn the opportunity to…
The Center for Nonprofit Excellence strengthens Southern Colorado's nonprofit sector through leadership and resource development, advocacy and collaboration. Together, with our partners, we are co-creating a vibrant community in the Pikes…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Advance Inc and the most unlike its peers is Veterans Yoga Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 16 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 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. 31 of the 43 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 PIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Step Denver ↗
- Who funds SARANAM LLC ↗
- Who funds FII - NATIONAL ↗
- Who funds We Fortify ↗
- Who funds BENEVOLENCE FARM ↗
- Who funds PIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Goodwill of Colorado ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Microfinance ↗
- Who funds Mindfulness and Positivity Project ↗
- Who funds DENVERWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOST AND FOUND ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BRINK LITERACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE THRIVE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado Inc ↗
- Who funds ADVANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NPX CHARITABLE INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS YOGA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CATHERINE'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BLUE STAR RECYCLERS ↗
- Who funds CONVERGE LECTURE SERIES ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds ILEARN COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds Homeward Pikes Peak ↗
- Who funds THREE SISTERS KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE CAPITAL GOOD FUND ↗
- Who funds FIRST SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Black Entrepreneurship ↗
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: 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
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 Dakota Foundation Dtd 122997 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.
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