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Dakota Foundation Dtd 122997

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$525k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $164k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $350k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Momentum Advisory Council$100,000
Step Denver$100,000
Friends of the Children$50,000
Pikes Peak Community Foundation$50,000
Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado$50,000
Pikes Peak Community Foundation$35,000
Advance Inc$25,000
Social Data Analytics LLC$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Veterans Yoga Project INC: $24k → 10%NPX CHARITABLE INC: $50k → 10%Community Enterprise Development Services: $15k → 8%FIRST SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY FUND: $10k → 17%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE: $100k → 10%COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMNT SVC: $4k → 8%Community Violence Intervention Cnt: $25k → 13%VETERANS YOGA PROJECT: $18k → 10%Advance Inc: $25k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ND
MN
NY
SD
RI
CA
CO
NM
NC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Dakota Foundation Dtd 122997’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Dakota Foundation Dtd 122997lessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

25%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$540k · 8 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
27

Total granted

$540k
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+53%

Still filing today

63%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $307k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterEmploymentCommunity ImprovementEducationHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • FO
    Friends of the Children
    4× · 2021–2024 · $150k
  • PF
    PPCC FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $150k
  • MA
    Mindfulness and Positivity Project
    2× · 2022–2024 · $68k · revenue -3%

Funded once

  • SL
    SARANAM LLC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -36%
  • RI
    RECIDIVIZ INC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • FII - NATIONAL
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -92%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Activate Work Inc

We provide training, coaching, community supports and access to leading colorado employers enabling coloradans to acheive economic security, mobility and prosperity.

Human Services
2
Colorado Thrives

Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.

Community Improvement
3
Mi Casa Resource Center

Advancing economic prosperity of the latino community.

Human Services
4
Social Venture Partners Boulder County Inc

To harness the collective power of nonprofits and philanthropic changemakers to accelerate community impact.

Philanthropy
5
Careerwise Colorado

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…

Education
6
Colorado Mental Wellness Network

To empower Coloradans affected by mental health conditions and providing them with skills and tools necessary to achieve their personal wellness goal.

Health
7
Dress for Success Denver

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.

Public Benefit
8
Endeavor Colorado

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…

Community Improvement
9
Stronger Faster Boulder Co
Recreation & Sports
10
The Stride Center

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…

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11
Step Springs

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…

Housing & Shelter
12
Center for Nonprofit Excellence

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Advance Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 43 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
22/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Friends of the Children: $150,000 · OtherFriends of the ChildrenPPCC FOUNDATION: $150,000 · OtherPPCC FOUNDATIONStep Denver: $100,000 · OtherStep DenverRECIDIVIZ INC: $100,000 · OtherRECIDIVIZ INCMomentum Advisory Council: $100,000 · OtherMomentum Advisory CouncilTHE OTHER SIDE ACADEMY: $75,000 · OtherTHE OTHER SIDE ACADEMYDVG INC: $50,000 · OtherCATHERINE'S HOUSE: $40,000 · OtherRocky Mountain Microfinance: $70,000 · OtherRocky Mountain MicrofinanceBRINK LITERACY PROJECT: $60,000 · OtherBreakthrough Alliance of Colorado Inc: $50,000 · Other+11 more: $192,703 · Other+11 moreSARANAM LLC: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterSARANAM LLCWe Fortify: $83,000 · Housing & ShelterWe FortifyBENEVOLENCE FARM: $80,000 · Housing & ShelterBENEVOLENCE FAR…JEREMIAH PROGRAM: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterJEREMIAH PROGRA…Homeward Pikes Peak: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterHomeward Pikes …FII - NATIONAL: $100,000 · Human ServicesFII - NATIONALNPX CHARITABLE INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesNPX CHARITABLE…ADVANCE INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesADVANCE INCVETERANS YOGA PROJECT INC: $41,500 · Human ServicesVETERANS YOGA …COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER: $25,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY VIOL…COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES: $19,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ENTE…FIRST SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY FUND: $10,000 · Human ServicesPIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · EducationTHE THRIVE NETWORK: $50,000 · EducationILEARN COLLABORATIVE: $25,000 · EducationGoodwill of Colorado: $71,200 · EmploymentDENVERWORKS INC: $60,000 · EmploymentPRODIGY VENTURES INC: $5,000 · EmploymentPIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $135,000 · PhilanthropyMindfulness and Positivity Project: $67,600 · HealthTHE LOST AND FOUND ASSOCIATION: $60,000 · Health
Other$1,137,703Housing & Shelter$318,000Human Services$295,500Education$150,000Employment$136,200Philanthropy$135,000Health$127,600

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $135,000 over 3y, 0.8% of 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
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.

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 FoundationKenneth Kendal King F…Daniels FundThe Colorado Health F…Colorado Gives Founda…Gates Family Foundati…The Joseph Henry Edmo…Rose Community Founda…El Pomar FoundationColorado Springs Heal…Bee Vradenburg Founda…Ent Credit Union
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dakota Foundation Dtd 122997 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dakota Foundation Dtd 122997. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    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.

    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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