Our Impact
Meet the people behind the amazing stats.
Data matters to you and to us.
And, behind every number is a PERSON. And a FAMILY. And a COMMUNITY.
Our program data tells the story of students who showed up, families who persevered, and a community that believed — and the results speak for themselves.
Have fun digging into our data!
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DATA MINERS
Grab your pickaxe and dig through the dirt to unearth the buried treasure of the 2024–25 Impact Report. Nearly every dig strikes a chest — each one hides a real Dreamer Scholar stat. Guess the number to claim the gem.
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Built from IHDF's 2025 Impact Highlights & 2024–25 ENDS Monitoring Report. Figures reflect the 2024–25 year.
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The Power of Attention and Early Support for Reading
Vicky is a bright, outgoing fourth-grader in our North Boulder program — "everybody's friend," in the words of her Program Director, Francisco. One afternoon during partner reading, Francisco noticed she was stumbling over certain letters and sounds, and sensed there was something worth a closer look. He reached out to her mom, Guadalupe, and together they brought it to her school, Columbine Elementary.
What followed was a collaboration. The issue was dyslexia, and a plan came together: targeted support at school, one-on-one tutoring, and dyslexia-friendly books, with Vicky's family, her teachers, and our NoBo team all rallying around her.
Vicky did the rest. Between September and October alone, her reading accuracy rose 40%, and her vocabulary and comprehension climbed 30%.
Early reading is where confidence takes root. For students in multilingual environments and contexts of income inequality, a struggle like Vicky's can go unnoticed for years — which is exactly why a trained adult with the time to pay real attention, and a family ready to partner, can change everything this early.
Across Boulder Valley, elementary Dreamer Scholars lifted language-arts proficiency from 51.4% to 75% last year — early reading is where momentum begins.
A “Dreamer” who came back to invest in the next generation
At nine, Andre was so reluctant to start at "Dreamers" — what the kids call our after-school program — that he skipped his first day altogether, hanging back with his mom and sending his older siblings in to scout it out first. The next day, staff met him with curiosity and warmth, asking about his day until the place started to feel like his.
His program director, Cisco, became a mentor and a father figure — the kind who pushed him into AP classes and, when senior-year college nerves set in, told him he could "have the whole enchilada" if he was willing to put in the work. Andre did.
As a recent CU graduate whose multidisciplinary studies included Philosophy, Andre came back to be that adult for the next generation. As a Program Specialist at Mountain View, he ran math and literacy games that turn after-school hours into real momentum — challenging the next group of Dreamer Scholars the way his own mentors once challenged him.
At Mountain View, second-graders posted 237% math growth and a 37% jump in literacy that year — exactly the progress Andre's sessions were built for.
Inspirational Commitment and Intentional Studies
Sarahí graduated in 2023 with Longmont's Aspen Dreamer class, and today she's studying economics — with a minor in multicultural leadership studies — at the University of Colorado Boulder. As a first-generation college student, she stepped into a system no one in her family had navigated before.
With strong commitment to doing good for the community, she kept her focus on earning degree in Economics, along with Multicultural Studies. IHDF helped her acheive her mission with scholarships and postsecondary support, staying in her corner with the steady check-ins that support 1st-gen students as they move forward. And now Sarahí is an adult advocate, recently joining our Executive Director for an interview about her experience as an IHDF Scholar on Denver 7.
From the start, she says, the message was clear and consistent: "I can and I will."