Colorado · Nonprofit
SWEET DREAM IN A BAG INC
SWEET DREAM IN A BAG INC (Colorado) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,290 to it, the largest being Steffens Foundation ($24,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $102k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $94k
- Net assets
- $149k
What Sweet Dream in a Bag Inc does
Mission
To gift children living in poverty with bedding packages consisting of a comforter, pillow, sheet set, fleece blanket, tooth brush, tooth paste, had made wooder car, stuffed toy and a short story booklet titled "You Are Awesome". Sweet Dream in a Bag also gifts children without beds air mattresses to sleep on.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
A grant was received from The Steffens Foundation for gifting 154 children, youth and infants living in poverty in Colorado with a bedding package that consists of a comforter, sheet set, fleece blanket, pillow, hand made wooden car, tooth paste, tooth brush, personalized booklet and a stuffed toy.
$10,000 spentof which $10,000 as grants34% of program spendingA grant was received from the Model N for gifting 123 children, youth and infants living in poverty in Colorado with a bedding packages that consists of a comforter, sheet set, fleece blanket, pillow, hand made wooden car, tooth paste, tooth brush, personalized booklet and a stuffed toy.
$8,000 spentof which $8,000 as grants28% of program spendingA grant was received from the ASK After School for Kids for gifting 92 children and youth, living in poverty in Cheyenne, Wyoming with a bedding package that consists of a comforter, sheet set, fleece blanket, pillow, hand made wooden car, tooth paste, tooth brush, personalized booklet and a stuffed toy.
$6,000 spentof which $6,000 as grants21% of program spendingA grant was received from the Denver Kiwanis Foundation for gifting 77 children and youth, living in poverty in Colorado with a bedding package that consists of a comforter, sheet set, fleece blanket, pillow, hand made wooden car, tooth paste, tooth brush, personalized booklet and a stuffed toy.
$5,000 spentof which $5,000 as grants17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $29,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $130k to $150k (+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.
100% of SWEET DREAM IN A BAG INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Wayne E Fox
Chairman of the Board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $12k.
2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 SWEET DREAM IN A BAG INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 12 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
SWEET DREAM IN A BAG INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 98% · 2022 40% · 2023 62% — broadly stable.
“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
25% of SWEET DREAM IN A BAG INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 25% 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
SWEET DREAM IN A BAG INC draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k 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
SWEET DREAM IN A BAG INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SWEET DREAM IN A BAG INC
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SWEET DREAM IN A BAG INC?
- SWEET DREAM IN A BAG INC (Colorado) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,290 to it, the largest being Steffens Foundation ($24,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SWEET DREAM IN A BAG INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $94,290 in grants to SWEET DREAM IN A BAG INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SWEET DREAM IN A BAG INC?
- Steffens Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $24,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SWEET DREAM IN A BAG INC 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 12 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing