California · Nonprofit
ADVENTURES IN CARING FOUNDATION
ADVENTURES IN CARING FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $338,289 to it, the largest being THE WOOD-CLAEYSSENS FOUNDATION ($130,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $74k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $338k
- Net assets
- $197k
What Adventures in Caring Foundation does
Mission
The foundation is dedicated to teaching and delivering compassion in health care: 1) to lift the spirits and prevent the emotional harm of the sick and isolated, and 2) to improve caregiver communication for better patient safety, health, and well-being.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Service-learning internship in relationship-centered care (aka: volunteer program): student volunteer interns reduce social isolation, counteract ostracism, and ease the trauma experienced by hundreds of elderly patients in local hospitals and long-term care facilities who are facing their illnesses and mortality mostly alone. More than 50% of those in long-term care would have no visitors at all were it not for the adventures in caring volunteer interns. Their regular visits provide psychosocial support with sufficient frequency and quality to assist in recovery and restore well-being.educational programs for health care professionals, family caregivers (general public), and nursing students-to build competencies in compassion. These competencies are the core knowledge and skills of relationship-centered care, which is fundamental to patient safety and well-being. It develops the emotional intelligence, interpersonal communication skill, and wholeheartedness to embrace human suffering with compassion. For example, the cultivating compassion staff training course is taught at santa barbara city college to nursing assistants who are learning to care for patients with dementia, and…
$106,372 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $106,372.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $111k to $231k (+109%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Simon Fox
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $90k → $10k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 ADVENTURES IN CARING FOUNDATION’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
ADVENTURES IN CARING FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 65% · 2019 43% · 2020 53% · 2021 42% · 2022 58% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
38% of ADVENTURES IN CARING FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
88% of ADVENTURES IN CARING FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like ADVENTURES IN CARING FOUNDATION
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.
Public support
62%
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 ADVENTURES IN CARING FOUNDATION: 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 ADVENTURES IN CARING FOUNDATION?
- ADVENTURES IN CARING FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $338,289 to it, the largest being THE WOOD-CLAEYSSENS FOUNDATION ($130,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADVENTURES IN CARING FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $338,289 in grants to ADVENTURES IN CARING FOUNDATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADVENTURES IN CARING FOUNDATION?
- THE WOOD-CLAEYSSENS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $130,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADVENTURES IN CARING FOUNDATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 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