Circle Of Dreams Foundation
Circle of Dreams Foundation is a private foundation based in Ridgway, Colorado focused on supporting Nature's Commons through grants for conservation, environmental education, and community resilience. The official site includes mission and about pages, a downloadable grant application, a grantees page listing recent awards, and contact information for trustees.
Source: Website · Mar 2026
Ideal Applicant
A small-to-mid-sized conservation, environmental education, or community resilience nonprofit with project-scale funding needs and clear alignment with Nature’s Commons priorities.
Good Fit
- • Project work focused on conservation, environmental education, or community resilience.
- • Budget needs consistent with past awards (roughly small to mid five-figure grants; median grant around $5k).
- • Ability to submit the foundation’s downloadable application by email or mail.
- • Local or regional presence in states previously funded (examples include Colorado, New Mexico, New York).
- • Willingness to provide brief grant reports per the foundation’s form requirements.
Geography
Giving in the latest year reached recipients in four different states, and recent years show multi-state distribution rather than strictly local-only funding, though one state received a large share of dollars.
Recipient Variety
The foundation funded nine distinct recipients in the most recent year (and 13 in an earlier year), with a mix of returning and new grantees across the three-year record, indicating a reasonably broad set of independent recipients for a small private foundation.
New Applicants
A public application form and submission instructions are published, and the filings show new grantees each year (about four new recipients in 2024), so unfamiliar organizations have a plausible path to be added to the portfolio.
Source: Zeffy Agent · Mar 2026
