Iowa · Nonprofit
Adventures in Social Development
Adventures in Social Development (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,000 to it, the largest being PRAIRIE MEADOWS RACE TRACK AND CASINO INC ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $104k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $21k
- Net assets
- $42k
What Adventures in Social Development does
Mission
Cultivate relationship development through performance-based activities and music-making initiatives that showcase an individuals wants needs talents and abilities within a public forum Curriculum addresses and resolves complex social issues in a safe nurturing creative and nonviolent arena to enhance the development of sharing listening problem-solving team building and receiving diversity to support emotional and social competencies for all
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Drama classes: Participants exercise various techniques of acting and improvisation; establishing healthy relationships through peer-led dramatic play; utilize role-play of a scene to resolve social issues. Number of participants benefited: 600
$4,737 spent26% of program spendingSocial Drumming: Used as a tool to increase interactive participation among individuals connected by music as the source of motivation. Number of participants benefited: 2000
$10,238 spent56% of program spendingKaraoke: Individuals actively participate with peers through song selection and performance. Number of participants benefited: 50
$262 spent1% of program spendingProvide support and programs using evidence-based strategies for target behaviors at school home and in the community
$2,908 spent16% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $18,145.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $43k to $42k (−3%).
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. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Annie Mielke
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Adventures in Social Development’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 Social Development leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 Adventures in Social Development.
“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
100% of Adventures in Social Development's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 Social Development
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Adventures in Social Development: 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 Social Development?
- Adventures in Social Development (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,000 to it, the largest being PRAIRIE MEADOWS RACE TRACK AND CASINO INC ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Adventures in Social Development have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $21,000 in grants to Adventures in Social Development, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Adventures in Social Development?
- PRAIRIE MEADOWS RACE TRACK AND CASINO INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Adventures in Social Development find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 2 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