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Outward Bound Inc

Our mission is to change lives through challenge and discovery.

$2.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$503k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$11MEnvironment$2.1MRecreation & Sports$1.1MYouth Development$178k
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
RecipientAmount
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
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THOMPSON ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND EDUCATION CENTER (TIOBEC): $192k → 16%VOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (VOBS): $759k → 14%PHILADELPHIA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (POBS): $269k → 22%OUTWARD BOUND CALIFORNIA (OBCA): $272k → 10%NEW YORK CITY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOLS (NYCOBS): $265k → 13%NORTHWEST OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (NWOBS): $253k → 12%NORTH CAROLINA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (NCOBS): $311k → 12%COLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (COBS): $393k → 12%CHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (CBOBS): $269k → 11%HURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (HIOBS): $233k → 11%THOMPSON ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND EDUCATION CENTER (TIOBEC): $192k → 16%VOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (VOBS): $503k → 14%PHILADELPHIA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (POBS): $151k → 22%OUTWARD BOUND CALIFORNIA (OBCA): $214k → 10%NEW YORK CITY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOLS (NYCOBS): $174k → 13%NORTHWEST OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (NWOBS): $209k → 12%NORTH CAROLINA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (NCOBS): $290k → 12%COLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (COBS): $282k → 12%BALTIMORE CHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (BCBOBS): $250k → 11%HURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (HIOBS): $174k → 11%THOMPSON ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND EDUCATION CENTER (TIOBEC): $185k → 16%VOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (VOBS): $412k → 14%OUTWARD BOUND CALIFORNIA (OBCA): $210k → 10%NEW YORK CITY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOLS (NYCOBS): $168k → 13%NORTHWEST OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (NWOBS): $182k → 12%NORTH CAROLINA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (NCOBS): $235k → 12%COLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (COBS): $246k → 12%CHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (CBOBS): $158k → 11%HURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (HIOBS): $172k → 11%THOMPSON ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND EDUCATION CENTER (TIOBEC): $170k → 16%VOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (VOBS): $325k → 14%OUTWARD BOUND CALIFORNIA (OBCA): $190k → 10%NEW YORK CITY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOLS (NYCOBS): $141k → 13%NORTHWEST OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (NWOBS): $158k → 12%NORTH CAROLINA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (NCOBS): $232k → 12%COLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (COBS): $231k → 12%HURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (HIOBS): $167k → 11%VOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (VOBS): $289k → 14%OUTWARD BOUND CALIFORNIA (OBCA): $146k → 10%NORTH CAROLINA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (NCOBS): $209k → 12%COLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (COBS): $187k → 12%HURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (HIOBS): $144k → 11%VOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (VOBS): $265k → 14%OUTWARD BOUND CALIFORNIA (OBCA): $139k → 10%NORTH CAROLINA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (NCOBS): $173k → 12%COLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (COBS): $170k → 12%VOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (VOBS): $206k → 14%VOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (VOBS): $181k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
CO
NE
MD
NC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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.

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
EnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • VO
    VOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +0%
  • NO
    Northwest Outward Bound School
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +5%
  • CB
    CHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +124%

Funded once

    How this is measured

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

    04Its field

    Closest unfunded matches

    The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

    1
    Colorado Outward Bound School

    Colorado outward bound school changes lives through challenge and discovery.

    Environment
    2
    Cloud Nine Outdoors

    Youth mentorship

    Civil Rights
    3
    Whole Earth Nature School

    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.

    Environment
    4
    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
    5
    Outride fka the Specialized Foundation
    Youth Development
    6
    North Routt Community Charter School

    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…

    Education
    7
    Outward Bound California

    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…

    Recreation & Sports
    8
    Outward Bound Adventures

    Leading Outdoor Education Through Meaningful Nature-based Education That Promotes Positive Self-development, Environment Responsibility and Outdoor Career Exposure

    Environment
    9
    Idaho Base Camp Inc

    A nonprofit organization rooted in the wood river valley, idaho basecamp helps develop resilience, confidence, and connection in youth through adventure, exploration, and intentional play in the outdoors.

    Environment
    10
    The Expedition School

    Operation of a North Carolina public charter school.

    Education
    11
    Rivers Way Outdoor Adventure
    —
    12
    Outdoor Outreach

    The mission of the Organization is to connect youth to the transformative power of the outdoors.

    Youth Development
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chesapeake Bay Outward Bound School Inc; 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.
    04the grantee network

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

    Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

    How this is measured

    Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

    Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    4
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    9/9
    Grantees still filing
    7/9
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    VOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $2,941,134 · EnvironmentVOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOLNORTH CAROLINA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $1,662,544 · EnvironmentNORTH CAROLINA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOLHURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $1,184,128 · EnvironmentHURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOLCATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC: $1,074,716 · EnvironmentCATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INCNEW YORK CITY OUTWARD BOUND CENTER INC DBA NYC OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOLS: $1,073,203 · EnvironmentNEW YORK CITY OUTWARD BOUND CENTER INC DBA NYC OUTWARD BOUND…COLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (COBS): $1,754,329 · OtherCOLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL (CO…OUTWARD BOUND CALIFORNIA (OBCA): $1,365,362 · OtherOUTWARD BOUND CALIFORNIA (OBCA)Northwest Outward Bound School: $1,276,202 · OtherNorthwest Outward Bound SchoolCHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC: $1,223,536 · Youth DevelopmentCHESAPEAKE BAY OUT…PHILADELPHIA OUTWARD BOUND CENTER: $1,063,735 · Youth DevelopmentPHILADELPHIA OUTWA…NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION: $177,986 · Youth DevelopmentNORTHSTAR FOUNDATI…
    Environment$7,935,725Other$4,395,893Youth Development$2,465,257

    Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

    25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $2,941,134 over 8y, 10% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $1,662,544 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetNorthwest Outward Bound School: $1,276,202 over 8y, 8.5% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC: $1,223,536 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetHURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $1,184,128 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetCATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC: $1,074,716 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetNEW YORK CITY OUTWARD BOUND CENTER INC DBA NYC OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOLS: $1,073,203 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetPHILADELPHIA OUTWARD BOUND CENTER: $1,063,735 over 8y, 8.4% of budgetNORTHSTAR FOUNDATION: $177,986 over 4y, 1.6% of budget
    Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

    A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

    Co-funders

    Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

    Klingenstein Foundati…The Arthur M Blank Fa…Community Foundation …American Endowment Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
    Klingenstein FoundationCT17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover 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 · 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

    How this is measured
    Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization Outward Bound Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Outward Bound Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      2get no government money at all
      4report 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
      How this is measured
      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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

      On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

      How this is measured
      Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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