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Dreamspring

DREAMSPRING increases access to business credit, makes loans and provides training which enable underserved entrepreneurs to realize their dreams and be catalysts for positive economic and social change.

$4.9M
Granted FY2020
356
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2020 · 356 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 356 grants below total $4,762,540, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,905,234 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $142,694 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k57 grants · $414k
  • $10k–50k299 grants · $4.3M
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$66M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LADY MARIAS TRUCKING$15,000
SWEET ACTION WASH PARK LLC$15,000
SANS SOUCI FESTIVAL OF DANCE CINEMA$15,000
NINA SHOPE DBA SNAPDRAGON$15,000
ROCKY MEDICAL TRANSPORTATION LLC$15,000
MODA Y COLOR LLC$15,000
SCOTT HOLDINGS LLC$15,000
QUEEN BEE BREWS LLC$15,000
SERENDIPITY CATERING OR TASHMO KO CO$15,000
1111 BRIDAL$15,000
LAWRENCE & LARIMER LLC$15,000
SOO & JIN INC$15,000
PINNACLE TRANSPORT LLC$15,000
CRAWFISH BOIL CO RESTAURANT AND BAR$15,000
GLOBAL LIMITLESS SOLUTIONS$15,000
02The need
02

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%ROXBOROUGH CORP: $15k → 3%JENNY ST CLAIRE PLLC: $15k → 5%C R C ENTERPRISES INC DBA CUT RITE CONCRETE INC: $15k → 6%BLEAV LLC: $15k → 6%LE CORTE VINTAGE: $15k → 6%FULL SPECTRUM BOTANICALS LLC DBA EVOLVED ALCHEMY: $15k → 6%LYNNETTE MINNICK DBA TOMORROW ACHIEVERS: $15k → 7%SIMPLE COFFEE CO: $15k → 7%MP TRANSPORTATION LLC: $15k → 7%SOCIAL TONIC: $15k → 7%NG MACHINING: $15k → 8%ROSE'S BEAR HUGS INC: $15k → 8%D & L TRUCKING LLC: $15k → 9%PRAIRIE LEARNING CENTER: $15k → 10%CHRISTINA VANFLEET DBA PHOENIX FITNESS COMPANY LLC: $15k → 12%SHOES & BREWS: $15k → 12%CARAVAN OF DREAMS LLC: $15k → 12%LONEWOLF PUBLISHING: $15k → 15%SUN SHINE COLORADO PAINTING LLC: $15k → 5%MICHELLE HOGSETT DBA VISIONS: $15k → 7%KUKUI SEAS INC DBA PARK SALON INC: $15k → 7%JESSICA FARRELL: $15k → 8%SUNWATER SPA: $15k → 9%DALE'S PHARMACY: $15k → 9%CMT2 INC DBA YOU NEED PIE: $15k → 11%SUNSET ACADEMY: $15k → 12%SOFTTAIL INN LLC: $15k → 12%J&A MENDEZ CLEANING SERVICES LLC: $15k → 3%CC REESE BOUTIQUE LLC: $15k → 5%3D CRYSTAL GIFT LLC: $15k → 7%NEXT LEVEL ATHLETICS LLC: $15k → 8%EMILY K HARRISON DBA SQUARE PRODUCT THEATRE: $15k → 9%LADY MARIAS TRUCKING: $15k → 10%NOA NOA FITNESS CLUB: $15k → 12%DENVER CAT COMPANY: $15k → 12%ANNE INGHAM INC: $15k → 3%POISED EVENTS: $15k → 5%SALAM INC: $15k → 8%CUCURU: $15k → 9%STERNER SNG LLC: $15k → 10%SNOW APPAREL: $15k → 12%ENVIOUS BEAUTY LLC: $15k → 12%DUWAYNE KING: $15k → 3%S & N NAILS SPA CORP: $15k → 5%ROCK N ROSES BOUTIQUE & GIFTS: $15k → 7%HUSEYIN YILMAZ DBA DENVER TAILORING & ALTERATIONS: $15k → 8%SUKARIS INC: $15k → 9%SITE RECLAMATION SERVICES: $15k → 9%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.
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.
03Its field
03the grantee network

2 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 2 of the 353 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
2/2
Grantees still filing
1/2
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+198 more: $3,015,000 · Other+198 moreDENVER FILM SOCIETY: $15,000 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO CHAMBER PLAYERS INCORPORATED: $15,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$3,015,000Arts & Culture$30,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDENVER FILM SOCIETY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds DENVER FILM SOCIETY ↗

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.

Mile High United Way …Denver Civic Ventures…Colorado Enterprise F…
Mile High United Way IncCO21.8× affinity32 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mile High United Way Inc · Denver Civic Ventures Inc · Colorado Enterprise Fund

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 Dreamspring funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dreamspring. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–26
    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.

    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 353 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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