Dakota Foundation Dtd 122997
Colorado Springs, CO · EIN 36-7213554. Reported 15 grants totalling $524,769 to 14 recipients across tax years 2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Dakota Foundation Dtd 122997 did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $25,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $15,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $1,169 and the largest $100,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Momentum Advisory Council | Dallas, TX | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Step Denver | Denver, CO | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pikes Peak Community Foundation | Colorado Springs, CO | $85,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado | Denver, CO | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of the Children | Colorado Springs, CO | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Advance Inc | Aurora, CO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Social Data Analytics LLC | Chapel Hill, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Veterans Yoga Project Inc | Alameda, CA | $24,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Colorado Springs School District 11 | Colorado Springs, CO | $22,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mindfulness and Positivity Project | Colorado Springs, CO | $17,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Enterprise Development Services | Aurora, CO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Eastern Plains Chamber of Commerce | Falcon, CO | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Prodigy Ventures | Denver, CO | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chai Debt Capital LLC | Denver, CO | $1,169 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Momentum Advisory Council
Assist in opening a new Cafe Momentum restaurant in Denver CO - Step Denver
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 can become productive contributing members of their families and community. - Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado
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. - Friends of the Children
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 high school. - Pikes Peak Community Foundation
Provide tuition and fees for aspiring Native American recent high school graduates and adult learners - Social Data Analytics LLC
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 subjective opinions so that families with higher levels of complexity are responded to and managed with more timely safety plans ultimately reducing neglect abuse and fatalities. Using objective data helps to make screening decisions more consistent equitable and accurate. The purpose of this grant is to partner with El Paso County to cover 50% of the cost to implement the program in the county incentivizing the county to adopt the tools to improve their child welfare outcomes.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 9 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Where its money goes
72% of its giving went to organizations in Colorado. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $25,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Colorado.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Dakota Foundation Dtd 122997's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 50971, Colorado Springs, CO, 80949. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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