Funding search · EIN 367213554 · Colorado Springs, CO

Dakota Foundation Dtd 122797

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

50
grants reported
$2.0M
total given
2022–2024
filing years
$35,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 20222024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Top recipients

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  • Recidiviz2 grants · $200,000
  • We Forify2 grants · $166,000
  • The Other Side Academy2 grants · $150,000
  • Ppcc Foundation2 grants · $150,000
  • Pikes Peak Community Foundation3 grants · $110,000
  • Momentum Advisory Council1 grant · $100,000
  • Dvg2 grants · $100,000
  • Friends of the Children2 grants · $100,000
  • Mindfulness and Positivity Project2 grants · $100,000
  • Step Denver1 grant · $100,000

Giving over time

$1.3M
2022
$253,534
2023
$524,769
2024

Grant history

All 50 reported grants, largest first.

  • $100,000

    Momentum Advisory Council · Dallas, TX · 2024

    Assist in opening a new Cafe Momentum restaurant in Denver CO

  • $100,000

    Step Denver · Denver, CO · 2024

    Assist in opening a Step Colorado Springs location that helps men in a state of desperation end their cycle of addiction take back control of their lives and transition to a safe and sober living environment where they read all
  • $100,000

    Recidiviz · New York, NY · 2022

    Reduce recidivisim & criminal populatns in co

  • $100,000

    Recidiviz · New York, NY · 2022

    Reduce recidivisim & criminal populatns in co

  • $83,000

    We Forify · Colorado Springs, CO · 2022

    Construct tiny home for economic distressed youth

  • $83,000

    We Forify · Colorado Springs, CO · 2022

    Construct tiny home for economic distressed youth

  • $80,000

    Benevolence Farm · Graham, NC · 2023

    The organization seeks to cultivate leadership promote sustainable livelihoods and reap structural change with individuals impacted by the criminal legal system in North Carolina.

  • $75,000

    Ppcc Foundation · Colorado Springs, CO · 2022

    Scholarships

  • $75,000

    Ppcc Foundation · Colorado Springs, CO · 2022

    Scholarships

  • $75,000

    The Other Side Academy · Denver, CO · 2022

    Teach repeat criminals healthy lifestylessuffice

  • $75,000

    The Other Side Academy · Denver, CO · 2022

    Teach repeat criminals healthy lifestylessuffice

  • $50,000

    Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado · Denver, CO · 2024

    This grant will be used to deliver life changing services to incarcerated individuals while allowing Breakthroughs team to dedicate time and resources to the pursuit of a Pay for Success Model.

  • $50,000

    Friends of the Children · Colorado Springs, CO · 2024

    Impact generational change by empowering youth who are facing great obstacles with professional mentors over the course of 12+ years. Provides intensive individualized guidance for children beginning at age 4 through hi read all
  • $50,000

    Pikes Peak Community Foundation · Colorado Springs, CO · 2024

    Provide tuition and fees for aspiring Native American recent high school graduates and adult learners

  • $50,000

    Friends of the Children · Colorado Springs, CO · 2023

    impact generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors over the course of 12+ years. Through their long-term relationship-based model they pr read all
  • $50,000

    Dvg · Grand Forks, ND · 2022

    Student run venture capital fund

  • $50,000

    Dvg · Grand Forks, ND · 2022

    Student run venture capital fund

  • $50,000

    Mindfulness and Positivity Project · Colorado Springs, CO · 2022

    Teach teachers & students reduce stress & anxiety

  • $50,000

    Mindfulness and Positivity Project · Colorado Springs, CO · 2022

    Teach teachers & students reduce stress & anxiety

  • $50,000

    The Thrive Network · Colorado Springs, CO · 2022

    Help at risk individuals to start own buinesses

  • $50,000

    The Thrive Network · Colorado Springs, CO · 2022

    Help at risk individuals to start own buinesses

  • $35,000

    Pikes Peak Community Foundation · Colorado Springs, CO · 2024

    Provides tuition and fees for aspiring college students in low income and low performing Colorado Springs school districts

  • $35,000

    Converge Lecture Series · Colorado Springs, CO · 2022

    Leverage writing & poetry to meet community needs

  • $35,000

    Converge Lecture Series · Colorado Springs, CO · 2022

    Leverage writing & poetry to meet community needs

  • $35,000

    Friends of the Children · Colorado Springs, CO · 2022

    Provide mentors for needy youth and their parents

  • $35,000

    Friends of the Children · Colorado Springs, CO · 2022

    Provide mentors for needy youth and their parents

  • $30,000

    Catherine'S House · Belmont, NC · 2023

    empower women and children who are experiencing homelessness through safe housing and services that build self-sufficiency

  • $25,000

    Advance · Aurora, CO · 2024

    Organization provides pathways to recovery that create self-esteem dignity and independence for people experiencing homelessness. The purpose of this grant is to aid in creating a community that provides all the help re read all
  • $25,000

    Social Data Analytics Llc · Chapel Hill, NC · 2024

    Use Predictive Risk Modeling a product of machine and algorithmic learning to improve the quality of decision making and supervision assigned to open cases within child welfare utilizing objective data rather than subje read all
  • $25,000

    Advance · Denver, CO · 2023

    Support and resources for people experiencing homelessness

  • $25,000

    Community Violence Intervention Cnt · Grand Forks, ND · 2023

    support in the development of a business plan to create a self-sustaining therapy center by initiating billing to patient insurance and Medicaid helping with their own sustainability and contributing to mental health wi read all
  • $25,000

    Pikes Peak Community Foundation · Colorado Sprngs, CO · 2023

    Individuals families businesses and organizations work with community foundations to create charitable funds that help meet the challenges of changing times. The foundation invests and administers these funds.

  • $25,000

    Pikes Peaks Community Foundation · Colorado Springs, CO · 2022

    Spnsr of olympic city usa - free soccer for k-2

  • $25,000

    Pikes Peaks Community Foundation · Colorado Springs, CO · 2022

    Spnsr of olympic city usa - free soccer for k-2

  • $24,000

    Veterans Yoga Project · Alameda, CA · 2024

    Support recovery and resilience among veterans military families and communities through Mindfulness Resilience Yoga classes.

  • $22,000

    Colorado Springs School District 11 · Colorado Springs, CO · 2024

    Annual teaching award for elementary middle and high school educators in D11 who are accelerating student outcomes through exemplary practices.

  • $20,000

    Brinks Literacy Project · Elbert, CO · 2022

    Teach literacy to prisoners

  • $20,000

    Brinks Literacy Project · Elbert, CO · 2022

    Teach literacy to prisoners

  • $20,000

    Three Sisters Kitchen · Albuquerque, NM · 2022

    Community foods education center

  • $20,000

    Three Sisters Kitchen · Albuquerque, NM · 2022

    Community foods education center

  • $17,600

    Mindfulness and Positivity Project · Colorado Springs, CO · 2024

    Aid in establishing the Mindfulness and Positivity program in up to 18 new schools by covering half of the schools curriculum cost. Program provides students and teachers the tools to understand and mitigate stress and read all
  • $15,000

    Community Enterprise Development Services · Aurora, CO · 2024

    Program assists refugees immigrants and those from underserved communities to start or grow their small business in Denver and surrounding counties. The purpose of this grant is to provide general operating support to s read all
  • $10,000

    Catherine'S House · Belmont, NC · 2023

    Support women and children experiencing homelessness

  • $10,000

    First Southwest Community Fund · Alamosa, CO · 2022

    Fund economic developmnt in distresed communities

  • $10,000

    First Southwest Community Fund · Alamosa, CO · 2022

    Fund economic developmnt in distresed communities

  • $7,500

    Colorado Springs Community Cultural · Colorado Springs, CO · 2023

    develop Colorado's creative workforce through apprenticeships in hospitality and culinary arts creative technologies and early childhood education enrichment training

  • $5,000

    Eastern Plains Chamber of Commerce · Falcon, CO · 2024

    The purpose of this grant is to fund the venue cost of the Colorado National Civics Bee to be hosted in Colorado Springs CO

  • $5,000

    Prodigy Ventures · Denver, CO · 2024

    The purpose of this grant is to provide general operating support to supplement the administration of a separate but related PRI agreement

  • $1,169

    Chai Debt Capital Llc · Denver, CO · 2024

    The organization blends together fixed-rate notes and equity from philanthropic public sector and private impact investment sources. They use these pooled resources to deploy debt and equity to partners developing high- read all
  • $1,034

    Chai Debt Capital Llc · Denver, CO · 2023

    Weave Social Finance is the Sponsor and Investment Manager of the Colorado Housing Accelerator Initiative CHAI. Weave specializes in facilitating triple bottom line impact investments in affordable housing and early sta read all

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