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OUTWARD BOUND INC
Our mission is to change lives through challenge and discovery.
$2.4M
Granted FY2024
10
Grants
10
Communities
$503k
Largest
01What you fund
0170% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Environment$7.9MYouth Development$2.5MOther$4.4M
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
courses
2019
courses
2020
courses
2021
courses
2022
courses
2023
scholarships
2024
scholarships
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 10 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k5 grants · $786k
- $250k+5 grants · $1.6M
$253,088
Median grant
10
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
- VOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (VOBS)$503,389
- COLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (COBS)$281,675
- PHILADELPHIA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (POBS)$268,665
- CHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (CBOBS)$268,637
- NORTHWEST OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (NWOBS)$253,088
- NORTH CAROLINA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (NCOBS)$235,424
- OUTWARD BOUND CALIFORNIA (OBCA)$189,554
- HURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (HIOBS)$167,018
- CATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC (CSIOBS)$102,938
- NEW YORK CITY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOLS (NYCOBS)$90,722
02The need
04
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 11%. 83% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$15M · 11 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else
11 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
11
0
Total granted
$15M
$0
Still filing today
82%
0%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
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
- NONORTHWEST OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +5%
- CBCHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +124%
- HIHURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +10%
Funded once
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
National Outdoor Leadership School
The mission of the national outdoor leadership school is to be the leading source and teacher of wilderness skills and leadership that serve people and the environment.
Environment
2
Outride
Youth Development
3
Rivers Way Outdoor Adventure
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4
Unbound
Unbound's mission is to support families and communities worldwide on their self-directed paths out of poverty. We measure our goals and the impact of our work under five strategic pillars. Pillar 1: Eliminate poverty through economic…
Human Services
5
Out-of-Door Academy of Sarasota Inc
Our mission at The Out-of-Door Academy is to nurture learners to be their best selves through impactful, purposeful, and challenging growth experiences in a supportive and unique environment. Our vision is to prepare growth-minded…
Education
6
The Institute of Navigation
The mission of ion is to advance the art and science of positioning, navigation and timing.
Science & Tech
7
Colorado Outward Bound School
To change lives through challenge and discovery.
Environment
8
Wayfinder Schools
Wayfinder schools offer students the experience necessary to discover their strengths and skills, connect with their families, practice personal responsibility, contribute to their communities, and earn a high school diploma.
Human Services
9
Outward Bound California
The mission of outward bound california is to change lives through challenge and discovery.
Recreation & Sports
10
Outer Coast
Outer coast seeks to teach and inspire promising young people to create virtuous change in the world and in their own lives. it aims to accomplish this mission by providing a rigorous and challenging academic curriculum marked by…
Education
11
Outward Bound Inc
Our mission is to change lives through challenge and discovery. we teach to and work by the following values: compassion, integrity, excellence, inclusion and diversity. our programs are based on the principles of learning through…
Environment
12
The Ensworth School
Ensworth is a kindergarten through twelfth grade, coeducational independent school.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Outward Bound School and the most unlike its peers is Cathleen Stone Island Outward Bound. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Environment$7,935,725Other$4,395,893Youth Development$2,465,257
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds VOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (VOBS) ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (NCOBS) ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (NWOBS) ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (CBOBS) ↗
- Who funds HURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (HIOBS) ↗
- Who funds THOMPSON ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND EDUCATION CENTER (TIOBEC) ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOLS (NYCOBS) ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (POBS) ↗
- Who funds OMAHA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (OBO) ↗
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.
Klingenstein FoundationCT18.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Klingenstein Foundation · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organisation OUTWARD BOUND INC 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: VOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (VOBS).
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~6 months of operating runway; revenue held over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 410877459 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on VOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (VOBS), cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 6 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 10% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Outward Bound Inc?
Find your warmest path to Outward Bound Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines