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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 FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

International$72kReligion$67kHealth$49kEducation$37kPhilanthropy$29kRecreation & Sports$29kHousing & Shelter$23kHuman Services$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$959k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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.

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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.

area typical 10%YWCA-HELENA: $3k → 9%NATIONAL BLACK CHILDRENS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $4k → 8%YWCA-HELENA: $1k → 9%YWCA-HELENA: $1k → 9%YWCA-HELENA: $1k → 9%HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $2k → 10%YWCA-HELENA: $1k → 9%HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $1k → 10%RYAN'S CASE FOR SMILES: $2k → 6%RYAN'S CASE FOR SMILES: $1k → 6%RYAN'S CASE FOR SMILES: $1k → 6%RYAN'S CASE FOR SMILES: $600 → 6%RYAN'S CASE FOR SMILES: $400 → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$265k · 16 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
6

Total granted

$265k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+23%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterInternationalOther

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

  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $21k · revenue +36%
  • NN
    NEEDLINK NASHVILLE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +121%
  • YH
    YWCA HELENA
    5× · 2021–2025 · $7k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CLEAR FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +23%
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS-BIG SKY AREA
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
  • TR
    TIDES-PROJECT REDWOOD
    one grant, 2020 · $5k

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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

2
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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,…

Health
3
Children's Scholarship Fund Philadelphia

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…

Education
4
The Common Application Inc

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…

Education
5
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

6
Residential Opportunities Inc

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.

Human Services
7
United Children's Services of Bennington County Inc

Children's services

Human Services
8
Common Impact Inc

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…

Unclassified
9
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

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.

Health
10
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

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…

Food & Nutrition
11
Common Future

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…

Community Improvement
12
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST JOHN'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURC — $66,500 · OtherST JOHN'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCGIVE WELL FOR GIVE DIRECTLY — $17,000 · OtherGIVE WELL FOR GIVE DIRECTLYNEEDLINK NASHVILLE — $10,000 · OtherNEEDLINK NASHVILLEMONTANA STATE ALUMNI ASSOC — $9,387 · OtherMONTANA STATE ALUMNI ASSOCAGAPE HEART INTERNATIONAL ORG — $9,000 · OtherAGAPE HEART INTERNATIONAL ORGSPECIAL OLYMPICS-BIG SKY AREA — $8,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS-BIG SKY AREATIDES-PROJECT REDWOOD — $5,000 · Other+5 more — $6,550 · OtherBRIGHTSTONE INC — $44,000 · EducationBRIGHTSTONE INCEVAN M LEWIS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP — $9,000 · EducationEVAN M LEWIS MEMORIAL SCH…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $7,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSIT…Church Farm School — $6,500 · EducationChurch Farm SchoolCORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $5,500 · EducationCORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN ACA…One World Childrens Fund — $50,500 · PhilanthropyOne World Childrens FundTHE CLEAR FUND — $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CLEAR FUNDTIDES FOUNDATION — $9,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATIONSPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC — $21,000 · Recreation & SportsYWCA HELENA — $6,900 · Human ServicesRYAN'S CASE FOR SMILES — $4,500 · Human ServicesNATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $4,000 · Human ServicesHUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF DISTRICT IX INC — $3,000 · Human ServicesBETHESDA PROJECT — $5,500 · Housing & ShelterCENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE — $2,500 · InternationalThe Common Place Inc — $1,000 · Youth Development
Other$131,437Education$72,000Philanthropy$69,500Recreation & Sports$21,000Human Services$18,400Housing & Shelter$5,500International$2,500Youth Development$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOne World Childrens Fund — $50,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBRIGHTSTONE INC — $44,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC — $21,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CLEAR FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEEDLINK NASHVILLE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetEVAN M LEWIS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP — $9,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA HELENA — $6,900 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetChurch Farm School — $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBETHESDA PROJECT — $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRYAN'S CASE FOR SMILES — $4,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF DISTRICT IX INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLa Casa de las Madres — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Montana Community Foundation IncMT13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

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202122232425
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Great Adventure Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Great Adventure Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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