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ADVENTURES IN TRAINING WITH A PURPOSE

ADVENTURES IN TRAINING WITH A PURPOSE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $866,367 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($250,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$523k
Funders on record
25
Grants received
$866k
Net assets
$149k
12/25 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 48%
01What it does

What Adventures in Training With a Purpose does

Mission

The organization is a christian nonprofit organization focused on helping those most in need to improve their quality of life through an adventure of purposeful physical training.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization works with individuals suffering chronic pain and disease, military vererans active military and first responders. These individuals we treat are suffering with chronic pain and disease and/or post traumatic stress disorder or depression. These clients were provided with transcranial magnetic stimulation, psychotherapy, nutritional counseling, functional complex physical training focused on balance, stability, sensory integration and motor skill development, and adventure trips.

    $350,363 spent$38,806 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $350,363.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($135k) Expenses 100 ($107k) Net assets 100 ($51k)2019 Revenue 183 ($248k) Expenses 242 ($259k) Net assets 79 ($40k)2020 Revenue 217 ($294k) Expenses 271 ($290k) Net assets 87 ($45k)2021 Revenue 791 ($1.1M) Expenses 690 ($737k) Net assets 737 ($379k)2022 Revenue 576 ($780k) Expenses 791 ($845k) Net assets 611 ($315k)2023 Revenue 503 ($680k) Expenses 788 ($842k) Net assets 298 ($154k)2024 Revenue 386 ($523k) Expenses 494 ($527k) Net assets 289 ($149k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (386)Expenses (494)Net assets (289)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $94k to $447k (+375%).

$51k
$40k
$94k
$447k
$328k
$587k
$499k
2018201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 2% · 2021 5% · 2022 6% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

105% of ADVENTURES IN TRAINING WITH A PURPOSE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$29k
’18
−$11k
’19
$4k
’20
$335k
’21
−$65k
’22
−$161k
’23
−$5k
’24
2.7
months of
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.

201920202021202220232024
Listed101013121011
Joined·+0+4+1+0+3
No longer listed·01222
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $6k → $329k.

5 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 TRAINING WITH A PURPOSE’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 TRAINING WITH A PURPOSE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

34% 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 TRAINING WITH A PURPOSE.

29%
largest funder
58%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 47% · 2020 44% · 2021 41% · 2022 46% · 2023 76% — 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

50% of ADVENTURES IN TRAINING WITH A PURPOSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

82% of ADVENTURES IN TRAINING WITH A PURPOSE's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

MN
NY
OR
OH
PA
CA
DE
AZ

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ADVENTURES IN TRAINING WITH A PURPOSE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve2.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)25% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like ADVENTURES IN TRAINING WITH A PURPOSE

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 Pennsylvania

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

66% of spending goes to programs.

Program 66%Management 28%Fundraising 5%

Governance

11
board members
91%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ADVENTURES IN TRAINING WITH A PURPOSE: 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 TRAINING WITH A PURPOSE?
ADVENTURES IN TRAINING WITH A PURPOSE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $866,367 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($250,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ADVENTURES IN TRAINING WITH A PURPOSE have?
IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $866,367 in grants to ADVENTURES IN TRAINING WITH A PURPOSE, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ADVENTURES IN TRAINING WITH A PURPOSE?
RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ADVENTURES IN TRAINING WITH A PURPOSE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 25 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing