Colorado · Nonprofit
Mountain Dreamers
Mountain Dreamers (Colorado) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,536,162 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($635,300). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Mountain Dreamers does
Mission
We are a community-based movement in the Rocky Mountains that educates and empowers everyone to stand up for immigrants' rights. We believe that immigrants' rights and human rights. We stand united against intolerance and injustice. We promote safe communities and work environments, as well as access to education for all members of our communities. We support everyone's dreams.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community education/advocay: In 2024, MD participated on state and local policy advocacy efforts related to immigration legal defense, the CO immigrant driver's licenses, and equitable access to housing and transportation. Language justice to build a more equitable summit school district. MD continued to build awareness and empathy for immigrant community members through media and community events by nuturing collaborations with more local organizations and government agencies.
$171,490 spentof which $146 as grants$256 earned by the program26% of program spendingImmigration Legal Services: In 2025, MD helped 550 people with some type of immigration related legal service, with priority given to cases involving DACA renewals and advance parole, gaining work authorization and protection from deportation, victims of violence, persons feeling persecution and violence and seeking asylum, women and families, and juvenile victims of abuse or neglect. MD helped hundreds of clients with immigration-related questions and referrals to partner immigration legal providers.
$39,078 spentof which $52,197 as grants$281 earned by the program6% of program spendingImmigrant services: In 2025, MD served 2087 individual unique immigrant cases with resources and referrals to partner agencies on a variety of needs, and with in-person assistance to obtain the CO immigrant Driver's license; with tax preparation and ITIN applications, wage theft; and with gaining professional and occupational state licensing.
$138,372 spentof which $3,902 as grants$405 earned by the program21% of program spendingOSO Outdoor Equity & Inclusion Initiative: In 2025, MD continued its initiative to increase equity and inclusion of immigrant families and adults in outdoor recreation through an initial grant from CO Parks & Wildlife. Efforts included in developing culturally and linguistically appropriate trailhead signage with the White River National Forest and providing an on-mountain snowboard lesson program to local immigrant residents, in collaboration with Arapahoe Basin Ski Area for the third consecutive year. In addition, for the first time, MD partnered with Vail Resorts EPIC Promise at Breckenridge and Beaver Creek. MD provided opportunity to 91 immigrant participants. Migrant integration program the newcomers migrant integration program welcomes and integrates newly arrived immigrants to the community by connecting them with the resources such as housing, transportation, schools, medical care, and jobs. MD is acquiring two shelter units with the support of the Summit County government and the Town of Breckenridge. Served 139 Newcomer individuals.
$300,163 spentof which $587 as grants$484 earned by the program46% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $649,103.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.
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 $641k to $1.8M (+185%).
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: 2020 13% · 2021 10% · 2022 4% · 2023 26% · 2024 27% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of Mountain Dreamers’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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
Peter Bakken
Executive Director
Board chair
Yanitza Rivera
Finance Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $47k → $278k.
7 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 Mountain Dreamers’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
Mountain Dreamers leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
46% 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 Mountain Dreamers.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 96% · 2020 66% · 2021 47% · 2022 67% · 2023 77% — 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
43% of Mountain Dreamers's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
95% of Mountain Dreamers's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $550k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
Mountain Dreamers runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 479 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 479 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Mountain Dreamers
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
78% 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 Mountain Dreamers: 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 Mountain Dreamers?
- Mountain Dreamers (Colorado) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,536,162 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($635,300). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Mountain Dreamers have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,536,162 in grants to Mountain Dreamers, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mountain Dreamers?
- THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $635,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mountain Dreamers 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 24 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