Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Great Adventure Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $43k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 13
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $959k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations The Great Adventure Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $43k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $41k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $47k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $53k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $71k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $36k | 69% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $15k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| One World Childrens Fund | $50,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Brightstone Inc | $44,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Special Olympics Montana Inc | $21,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Needlink Nashville | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Clear Fund | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Evan M Lewis Memorial Scholarship | $9,000 | 3 | 13% |
| YWCA Helena | $6,900 | 5 | 0% |
| Church Farm School | $6,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Cornerstone Christian Academy | $5,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Bethesda Project | $5,500 | 6 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| One World Childrens Fund | $50,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Brightstone Inc | $44,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Special Olympics Montana Inc | $21,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Needlink Nashville | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Clear Fund | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Evan M Lewis Memorial Scholarship | $9,000 | 3 | 13% |
| YWCA Helena | $6,900 | 5 | 0% |
| Church Farm School | $6,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Cornerstone Christian Academy | $5,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Bethesda Project | $5,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Ryan's Case for Smiles | $4,500 | 5 | 0% |
| National Black Child Development Institute | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Human Resource Development Council of District IX Inc | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Central Asia Institute | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| La Casa de las Madres | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Common Place Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Humanities Montana | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($119k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Great Adventure Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Montana Community Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
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About The Great Adventure Foundation
- How much does The Great Adventure Foundation give?
- The Great Adventure Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $43,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 13 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Great Adventure Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (22%), Religion (21%), Health (15%).
- Who are The Great Adventure Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: One World Childrens Fund ($51k), Brightstone Inc ($44k), Special Olympics Montana Inc ($21k).
- Does The Great Adventure Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Great Adventure Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Great Adventure Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Montana Community Foundation Inc, Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation, The William Penn Foundation.
- Where is The Great Adventure Foundation based?
- The Great Adventure Foundation is based in PA.
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