Colorado · Nonprofit
COLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION
COLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,440,987 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($731,664). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 64
- Grants received
- $5.4M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Colorado Dream Foundation does
Mission
We partner with youth and their families as they successfully navigate school, college, and career by providing a holistic academic, social, and emotional program from elementary school through college, along with post-secondary scholarship assistance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Colorado Dream Foundation was incorporated under the laws of the state of colorado on february 29, 1988. Since our founding, we have been uniquely positioned to deliver results because of the long-lasting, deep relationships we build with families, starting in elementary school and continuing through college and into a career. Our program take place in out-of-school time settings, allowing us to utilize afternoons, evenings, and summers to work with our youth. Our commitment to supporting youth through their post-secondary journey means we continually adapt to meet their needs every step of the way. Our history of using data and evaluation to closely monitor academic and social-emotional growth positions us well to deliver consistent, measurable results. The foundation is supported primarily by private and public sector grants and donations and is committed to maintaining financial stability. Our diverse leadership team and board of directors provide operational oversight to ensure continuing financial health. In fy25, we served 467 youth and families across metro denver through four holistic, integrated service areas: -out-of-school time programming: provides daily academic…
$1,873,600 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,873,600.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.9M to $1.6M (−16%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 4% · 2019 5% · 2020 5% · 2021 23% · 2022 27% · 2023 27% · 2024 43% · 2025 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Kaye Taavialma
President and CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $436k → $761k.
14 of 64 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of COLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 64 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
COLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
76% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund COLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 38% · 2019 31% · 2020 23% · 2021 22% · 2022 18% · 2023 25% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
38% of COLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
89% of COLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like COLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION?
- COLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,440,987 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($731,664). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 64 organizations giving $5,440,987 in grants to COLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $731,664 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 64 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing