California · Nonprofit
ACTIVEDISCOVERY CLUB
ACTIVEDISCOVERY CLUB (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $216,000 to it, the largest being Towle Family Foundation ($80,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $497k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $216k
- Net assets
- $373k
What Activediscovery Club does
Mission
The organization's mission is to foster activity, encourage learning, and launch discovery in the midst of difficult circumstances, by providing learning kits to children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Expansion and cost-sharing growth with northeast florida boys & girls clubs:one of our most significant accomplishments in 2025 was the continued expansion and deepening impact of our partnership with the boys & girls clubs of northeast florida. When active discovery first began working with this region, there were 35 club sites. That number has now grown to 60 clubs, with plans to add more than 10 additional locations in the coming year.equally important is the shift toward sustainability. Previously, all programming was fully subsidized. In 2025, these clubs began contributing 10% of program costs, signaling strong program value and setting the stage for increased financial participation over time. The region currently distributes approximately 200 kits, three times per year, and has expressed a desire to scale usage up to five times that amount.
$11,527 spent7% of program spendingLaunch of new program partnership in chicago with scalable growth potential:in 2025, active discovery successfully launched a new pilot program in chicago in partnership with the big shoulders fund, an organization that supports more than 100 title I schools serving underserved communities in the chicago area.the program began with implementation in one partner school, utilizing active discovery kits and games across both classroom and afterschool settings. Early adoption has demonstrated strong alignment with the school's goals of increasing student engagement, physical activity, andsocial-emotional development.based on this initial success, big shoulders fund has expressed strong interest in expanding active discovery programming into additional schools within its network.
$23,053 spent13% of program spendingIndividual and community-level outcomes demonstrating lasting impact:active discovery programming continues to create meaningful, measurable outcomes for youth participants.a previously shy 4th-grade student in jacksonville discovered confidence and belonging through participation in a kit activity involving drumsticks. This experience sparked a lasting interest inmusic, and the student is now participating in his middle school band.in another example, students used materials from the go & grow kit to design and present a garden proposal to their school principal. This project extended beyond the activity itself, fostering leadership, collaboration, and real-world application of skills within their school community.
$138,319 spent80% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $172,899.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $128k to $374k (+192%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
99% of ACTIVEDISCOVERY CLUB’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Mary Ann Sprague-Denison
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $7k → $57k.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ACTIVEDISCOVERY CLUB’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ACTIVEDISCOVERY CLUB leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
28% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ACTIVEDISCOVERY CLUB.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 67% · 2023 88% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
ACTIVEDISCOVERY CLUB draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ACTIVEDISCOVERY CLUB runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,734 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,734 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ACTIVEDISCOVERY CLUB
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
45%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACTIVEDISCOVERY CLUB: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ACTIVEDISCOVERY CLUB?
- ACTIVEDISCOVERY CLUB (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $216,000 to it, the largest being Towle Family Foundation ($80,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACTIVEDISCOVERY CLUB have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $216,000 in grants to ACTIVEDISCOVERY CLUB, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACTIVEDISCOVERY CLUB?
- Towle Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACTIVEDISCOVERY CLUB find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing