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Kostopulos Dream Foundation

Kostopulos Dream Foundation (Utah) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,620,803 to it, the largest being JOSEPH AND KATHLEEN SORENSON LEGACY FOUN ($871,325). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.0M
Funders on record
53
Grants received
$2.6M
Net assets
$8.4M
37/53 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 41%
01What it does

What Kostopulos Dream Foundation does

Mission

Provide programs which improve the quality of life for people of all abilities, including those with disabilities or special medical needs, through education, recreation, and growth opportunities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $2,384,666 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,384,666.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($4.4M)2018 Revenue 87 ($2.0M) Expenses 119 ($1.9M) Net assets 103 ($4.5M)2019 Revenue 89 ($2.0M) Expenses 115 ($1.8M) Net assets 107 ($4.7M)2020 Revenue 55 ($1.2M) Expenses 81 ($1.3M) Net assets 106 ($4.7M)2021 Revenue 77 ($1.7M) Expenses 84 ($1.3M) Net assets 115 ($5.1M)2022 Revenue 107 ($2.4M) Expenses 104 ($1.6M) Net assets 132 ($5.8M)2023 Revenue 88 ($2.0M) Expenses 123 ($1.9M) Net assets 133 ($5.8M)2024 Revenue 143 ($3.2M) Expenses 136 ($2.2M) Net assets 157 ($6.9M)2025 Revenue 176 ($4.0M) Expenses 158 ($2.5M) Net assets 190 ($8.4M)
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Revenue (176)Expenses (158)Net assets (190)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $7.4M to $8.9M (+20%).

$4.5M
$4.7M
$4.9M
$5.0M
$5.5M
$6.2M
$6.3M
$7.4M
$8.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 41% · 2018 21% · 2019 6% · 2020 29% · 2021 21% · 2022 4% · 2023 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

73% of Kostopulos Dream Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,898 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$665k
’17
$57k
’18
$195k
’19
−$44k
’20
$384k
’21
$772k
’22
$24k
’23
$1.1M
’24
$1.4M
’25
13
months of
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

Mircea Divricean

President & CEO

Board chair

Kyle Winther

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed2323161089101010
Joined·+0+0+0+0+5+1+0+0
No longer listed·07624000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $122k → $555k.

5 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 Kostopulos Dream Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 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

Kostopulos Dream Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

33%
largest funder
49%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 73% · 2019 37% · 2020 56% · 2021 44% · 2022 42% · 2023 34% — 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

37% of Kostopulos Dream Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

97% of Kostopulos Dream Foundation's grant income comes from Utah funders.

IL
WI
NY
OR
UT
NE
MO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Utah out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $156k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Kostopulos Dream Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin36% · top quartile
Months of reserve12.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like Kostopulos Dream Foundation

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 4%Fundraising 1%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

64%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

UT

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Questions and answers

Who funds Kostopulos Dream Foundation?
Kostopulos Dream Foundation (Utah) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,620,803 to it, the largest being JOSEPH AND KATHLEEN SORENSON LEGACY FOUN ($871,325). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Kostopulos Dream Foundation have?
IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $2,620,803 in grants to Kostopulos Dream Foundation, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Kostopulos Dream Foundation?
JOSEPH AND KATHLEEN SORENSON LEGACY FOUN is the largest funder on record, with $871,325 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Kostopulos Dream Foundation find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 53 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