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K2 Adventures Foundation

To care for children, adults, and families with special needs and/or life changing medical circumstances by providing services, support, and funds that will be used for educational and medical enrichment.

$748k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$105k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$379kYouth Development$142kHuman Services$120kFood & Nutrition$95kRecreation & Sports$90kCrime & Legal$77kEducation$40kInternational$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 9 grants below total $273,600 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $747,645 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $474,045 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $73k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $182k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Elevate Phoenix$105,000
Others under reporting threshold$76,720
Crown's of Courage$27,750
United Samaritan's Foundation$20,000
Frontline Healing Foundation$15,000
Billy's Place$10,000
Angels on Patrol$7,530
Hope 4 Kids$6,500
One Step Beyond$5,100
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $102k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE UPSTATE FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 14%CARIDAD INC: $10k → 13%CHILDHELP: $8k → 11%Crown's of Courage: $28k → 11%Angels on Patrol: $8k → 11%CORTNEY'S PLACE: $9k → 11%CORTNEY'S PLACE: $8k → 11%MOTHER'S GRACE: $8k → 11%MOTHER'S GRACE: $5k → 11%CORTNEY'S PLACE: $5k → 11%Billy's Place: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
MA
NV
IN
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
AZ
NM
AL
TX

Grants abroad, by region — $179k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions, $83k to organizations and $96k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$168k · 94% · 2 grants · 356 people

Stated purpose: Prosthetic center support · Orphanage support · Scholarships

South Asia$11k · 6% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Under reporting threshold 3 orgs

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$436k · 10 repeat orgs$617k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
31

Total granted

$436k
$455k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+2%

Still filing today

90%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $162k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalYouth DevelopmentEducationOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • HI
    HOPEKIDS INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $173k · revenue +123%
  • EP
    ELEVATE PHOENIX
    2× · 2023–2024 · $116k · revenue +57%
  • PC
    Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation
    3× · 2017–2019 · $29k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • MP
    MARICOPA PANTRY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue -25%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $59k
  • OU
    Others under 5K
    one grant, 2022 · $47k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Curesearch for Children's Cancer

Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…

Health
2
Craniofacial Foundation of Arizona

Dedicated to providing financial and emotional support to craniofacial patients and their families, promote educational programs to increase awareness about and acceptance of craniofacial conditions, and support research to improve methods…

Health
3
Children's Cancer Fund of New Mexico

The children's cancer fund of new mexico exists to help persons from new mexico who have been diagnosed with and treated for childhood cancer (at a new mexico pediatric oncology facility) and their families cope with the day-to-day…

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4
Oncology and Kids Inc

To help kids and families heal the emotional scars of childhood cancer and learn to thrive.

Human Services
5
Childrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute

To make all childhood cancers universally survivable by delivering new treatments to clinical trials through scientific discovery.

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6
Arizona Behavioral Health Corporation

Providing quality, affordable supportive housing for persons with behavioral health needs in maricopa county.

Unclassified
7
100 Club of Arizona

To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.

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8
The Brain Tumor Network Inc

The brain tumor network (btn) is dedicated to providing compassionate, personalized navigation services to brain tumor patients and caregivers. btn also assists patients in finding clinical trials that may be an appropriate match for them.…

Health
9
Cancer Support Community Arizona

CSCAZ uplifts and strengthens people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.

Health
10
El Paso Guidance Center Inc dba El Paso Child Guidance Center

Improving the health and well-being of children and families in a safe environment through mental health services, education and awareness.

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11
Adelante Healthcareinc

Mission: cultivate health by supporting individuals and the community at every step of their journey. vision: lead a future in which accessible, high-quality care sets the standard for all. adelante healthcare, a federally qualified health…

Health
12
Foster 360

Foster360 equips former clients of the foster care system to break the cycle of homelessness and abuse.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Arizona Inc and the most unlike its peers is Maricopa Vfw Post 720. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAt-Risk Youth MentoringFood Pantries & AssistanceCancer Support OrganizationsVeteran Support ServicesYouth Sports Booster Organi…Public University Foundatio…Animal Rescue and AdoptionChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Homeless Services & ShelterDevelopmental Disabilities …Christian Missionary Organi…Community Health Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%5%<5yr17%10%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr15%28%20–35yr10%20%35–55yr12%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%1%<5yr17%17%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr15%36%20–35yr10%14%35–55yr12%6%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/46
the rest of the field
16%
4,464/28,439

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 49 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/41
Grantees still filing
23/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Others under reporting threshold — $76,720 · OtherOthers under reporting thresholdIndividual grant recipient — $59,125 · OtherIndividual grant recipientOthers under 5K — $47,324 · OtherOthers under 5KENVISION THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP I — $15,000 · OtherGERMANTOWN FRIENDS SCHOOL — $15,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN LIFE OUTREACH INC — $25,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN LIFE OUTREACH INCFRIENDS OF CAMP COLTON INC — $14,500 · Other+13 more — $99,938 · Other+13 moreHOPEKIDS INC — $172,662 · HealthHOPEKIDS INCPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation — $28,861 · HealthPhoenix Children's Hospital Fo…VALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION — $17,500 · HealthVALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATIONFRONTLINE HEALING FOUNDATION — $15,000 · HealthCAMELOT THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP INC — $10,500 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC — $10,000 · Health+5 more — $30,975 · Health+5 moreALBUQUERQUE HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $36,000 · Human ServicesALBUQUERQUE HE…CROWNS OF COURAGE — $27,750 · Human ServicesCROWNS OF COUR…CORTNEYS PLACE — $21,500 · Human ServicesCORTNEYS PLACEMOTHER'S GRACE — $12,750 · Human ServicesMOTHER'S GRACEBILLY'S PLACE INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesBILLY'S PLACE …CARIDAD INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCARIDAD INCANGELS ON PATROL INC — $7,530 · Human ServicesANGELS ON PATR…CHILDHELP INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesCHILDHELP INCTHE UPSTATE FOUNDATION INC — $5,250 · Human ServicesELEVATE PHOENIX — $115,900 · Youth DevelopmentELEVATE PHOE…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL ARIZONA — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentMARICOPA PANTRY INC — $75,000 · Food & NutritionUNITED SAMARITANS FOUNDATION — $20,000 · PhilanthropyTrends Charitable Fund — $11,000 · PhilanthropyCELEBRITY FIGHT NIGHT FOUNDATION INC — $8,000 · PhilanthropyMichael Napoleone Memorial Foundation Inc — $5,250 · PhilanthropyADVENTURES IN TRAINING WITH A PURPOSE — $26,700 · EducationNew America Alliance Institute — $15,000 · Education
Other$352,607Health$285,498Human Services$138,280Youth Development$120,900Food & Nutrition$75,000Philanthropy$44,250Education$41,700

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHOPEKIDS INC — $172,662 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetELEVATE PHOENIX — $115,900 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetMARICOPA PANTRY INC — $75,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetALBUQUERQUE HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $36,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation — $28,861 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCROWNS OF COURAGE — $27,750 over 1y, 12% of budgetADVENTURES IN TRAINING WITH A PURPOSE — $26,700 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCHRISTIAN LIFE OUTREACH INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCORTNEYS PLACE — $21,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetUNITED SAMARITANS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION — $17,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetENVISION THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP I — $15,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetFRONTLINE HEALING FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMOTHER'S GRACE — $12,750 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTrends Charitable Fund — $11,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCAMELOT THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP INC — $10,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetFLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF ARIZONA INC — $10,333 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBILLY'S PLACE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCARIDAD INC — $10,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOTA - Children's Organ Transplant Association — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ALS ASSNAL CHAPTERINC — $9,125 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE TANNER FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES — $9,125 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCELEBRITY FIGHT NIGHT FOUNDATION INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetANGELS ON PATROL INC — $7,530 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCHILDHELP INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSERVE THE FUTURE AZ — $5,500 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetTHE UPSTATE FOUNDATION INC — $5,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMichael Napoleone Memorial Foundation Inc — $5,250 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetNO BARRIERS USA — $5,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONE STEP BEYOND INC — $5,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArizona Cancer Foundation for Children Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL ARIZONA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFIRST DESCENTS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Arizona Community Fou…Thunderbirds CharitiesJohn F Long Foundatio…Saguaros Childrens Ch…Phoenix Suns Charitie…American Express Foun…Pivotal FoundationExecutive Council Cha…Del E Webb FoundationFiesta Events IncArizona Diamondbacks …Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…
Arizona Community FoundationAZ30.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · John F Long Foundation Inc · Saguaros Childrens Charities · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · American Express Foundation · Pivotal Foundation · Executive Council Charities · Del E Webb Foundation · Fiesta Events Inc · Arizona Diamondbacks Foundationinc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization K2 Adventures Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 49 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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