· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JOHN'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURC | $12,500 |
| BRIGHTSTONE | $10,000 |
| AGAPE HEART INTERNATIONAL ORG | $9,000 |
| MONTANA STATE ALUMNI ASSOC | $3,250 |
| KARITAS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| BETHESDA PROJECT | $1,000 |
| HUMANITIES MT | $1,000 |
| RYAN'S CASE FOR SMILES | $1,000 |
| CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| YWCA-HELENA | $1,000 |
| THE COMMON PLACE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC4× · 2019–2022 · $21k · revenue +36%
- NNNEEDLINK NASHVILLE2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +121%
- YHYWCA HELENA5× · 2021–2025 · $7k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- TCTHE CLEAR FUNDone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +23%
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS-BIG SKY AREAone grant, 2024 · $8k
- TRTIDES-PROJECT REDWOODone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
With over 20 years of experience and over 30,000 scholarships awarded, csfp provides philadelphia children with eight-year, needs-based scholarships to attend safe, quality, k-8th grade schools. continued on schedule o.supporting…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
We partner with children and adults with disabilities and their families so they may live more meaningful, healthy, and independent lives in their homes and communities.
Children's services
Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
The neighborhood reinvestment corporation (d.b.a neighborworks america) is a congressionally chartered public non-profit corporation that creates opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives, and strengthen…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bethesda Project and the most unlike its peers is Evan M Lewis Memorial Scholarship. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 28 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 One World Childrens Fund ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTSTONE INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEAR FUND ↗
- Who funds NEEDLINK NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds EVAN M LEWIS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds YWCA HELENA ↗
- Who funds Church Farm School ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds RYAN'S CASE FOR SMILES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF DISTRICT IX INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds La Casa de las Madres ↗
- Who funds The Common Place Inc ↗
- Who funds Humanities Montana ↗
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: 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
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 The Great Adventure 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.
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.
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