Ohio · Nonprofit
ADVENTURE CREW
ADVENTURE CREW (Ohio) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,227,785 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($311,918). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $812k
- Funders on record
- 54
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $297k
What Adventure Crew does
Mission
The mission of Adventure Crew is to connect city teens to nature and each other through engaging outdoor adventures. Through Adventure Crew, city teens develop the courageous spirit to step out of their comfort zone and discover new worlds outside in nature, and inside themselves. For 11 years, Adventure Crew has been working to remove the barriers many of our young people face in experiencing the physical, mental, and social wellbeing gained from time spent in nature and outdoor adventure activities. This fiscal year, over 700 crew teens took on fun, new challenges through our 4-tiered progressive program framework, the "crew pathways". At each level, students experience the peace, beauty, and invigoration of natural spaces, redefining their relationship with the outdoors as a transformational resource and a place of inclusion and belonging.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
School-based outdoor adventure programduring this fiscal year, Adventure Crew partnered with 21 cincinnati public schools and 6 public schools in northern knetucky to engage over 900 unique students in grades 7-12, providing outdoor adventures for city teens at no cost. Our adventures include kayaking and canoeing, hiking, ropes courses, skiing and snowboarding, ice and roller skating, rock climbing, camping, and cycling on natural and paved trails. Specialized programs also provide hands-on learning in env. Science, conservation and ecology, and introduction to career pathways across the outdoor rec and environmental sectors.
$442,758 spent$2,025 earned by the program79% of program spendingIn this fiscal year, Adventure Crew produced the 24th year of the ohio river paddlefest, held the first saturday in august. Paddlefest is the nation's largest paddling event and an open-to-the-public community program that connects thousands of people to the ohio river and outdoor recreation. This year, just over 1,650 kayakers, canoeers, and stand-up paddleboarders registered to participate. Adventure Crew youth participate in paddlefest as volunteers and paddlers, directly connecting the event to Adventure Crew's mission of expanding outdoor access for city teens. The evening before paddlefest, Adventure Crew hosted the outdoors for all expo, a free-admission community gathering featuring 70 vendors from the outdoor recreation, retail, nonprofit, and government sectors, along with live music, food, and drinks.in late august of each year, Adventure Crew hosts the bill keating, jr. Great ohio river swim, an open-to-the-public community program that brings together open-water swimmers on the ohio river. This year, 220 swimmers participated, crossing the ohio river and back, with the option to enter the "double dip", an additional 2.5-mile swim along the ohio bank before entering…
$115,090 spent$324,568 earned by the program21% of program spendingAdventure Crew held the 24th year of the ohio river paddlefest, the nation's largest paddling event with over 1,800 kayakers, canoers, and stand-up paddleboarders. Crew students also participated in paddlefest as volunteers and paddlers. The day before paddlefest, Adventure Crew hosts the outdoors for all expo, with 80 vendors from outdoor rec, retail, nonprofit and government sectors, with live music, food, and drinks. Adventure Crew also hosted the bill keating jr. Great ohio river swim for 250 swimmers to complete an open-water swim across the ohio river to kentucky and back, raising funds for our swim program and other outdoor adventures for youth. Adventure Crew also hosted a range of fundraising events, including our signature fall event, summits & horizons, the outdoor gear sale, no man's land film festival, online fundraising campaigns, raffles, and auctions, and direct mail campaigns.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $557,848.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2021 to 2022, from $299k to $438k (+46%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of ADVENTURE CREW’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $46k → $268k.
10 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 ADVENTURE CREW’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 funders by total. 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
ADVENTURE CREW has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
60% 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 ADVENTURE CREW.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 45% · 2019 18% · 2020 21% · 2021 20% · 2022 31% · 2023 21% — 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.
How long its funders stay
52% of ADVENTURE CREW's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
63% of ADVENTURE CREW's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $747k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states 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
ADVENTURE CREW has grown faster than half of the 5,705 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,705 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ADVENTURE CREW
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ADVENTURE CREW?
- ADVENTURE CREW (Ohio) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,227,785 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($311,918). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADVENTURE CREW have?
- IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $2,227,785 in grants to ADVENTURE CREW, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADVENTURE CREW?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $311,918 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADVENTURE CREW find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 54 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