· Public charity
Outward Bound Inc
Our mission is to change lives through challenge and discovery.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- VOVOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +0%
- NONorthwest Outward Bound School8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +5%
- CBCHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +124%
Funded once
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Colorado outward bound school changes lives through challenge and discovery.
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…
The purpose of this corporation is to help people of all ages and walks of life build personal strengths needed to succeed in life, through operating challenging experiential learning courses and programs in school, urban and wilderness…
Our mission is to challenge young lives to explore beyond four walls through expeditions and outdoor discovery. as an expeditionary learning school, we seek to inspire the motivation to learn, engage teachers and students in new levels of…
Mentoring students in the outdoors to foster confidence, resilience and kinship with nature. our programs center wilderness skills and empower students to be at the center of their own learning.
Operation of a North Carolina public charter school.
Youth mentorship
Leading Outdoor Education Through Meaningful Nature-based Education That Promotes Positive Self-development, Environment Responsibility and Outdoor Career Exposure
The mission of the Organization is to connect youth to the transformative power of the outdoors.
To provide coordination, support and leadership to outward bound programs worldwide that deliver experiential programs for outdoor adventure to stimulate personal development and understanding between people.
We develop adventurers. (see schedule o)creative collaborators and intellectual risk takers who are inspired to think critically and seek answers. we create passionate communicators actively connected to their community and the world. we…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chesapeake Bay Outward Bound School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Northwest Outward Bound School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 11 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Northwest Outward Bound School ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY OUTWARD BOUND CENTER INC DBA NYC OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA OUTWARD BOUND CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Klingenstein Foundation · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 organization 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.
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.