California · Nonprofit
Adventures to Dreams Enrichment
Adventures to Dreams Enrichment (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $141,072 to it, the largest being GOLDHIRSH FOUNDATION ($50,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $199k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $141k
- Net assets
- $78k
What Adventures to Dreams Enrichment does
Mission
We provide hands-on, educational activities for youth ages 4-16. A child's mindset begins to develop at birth. We believe that enrichment can plant positive seeds in the minds of growing youth. This is our Busy hands = Busy minds concept: providing activities that encourage kids to explore their limitless creativity and absorb knowledge about the world around them. Gardening brings tranquility and peace of mind; Combined with hands-on Art and STEM, our activities open their minds to a complete potential for learning, all while experiencing fun, laughter, and excitement. Our hope is that the youth who attend our program leave with the inspiration to dream BIG and the belief that they can achieve anything in life. Adventures to Dreams Enrichment is a vital resource for youth, families, and the community it serves.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
We were able to increase the activities for the youth ages 4-16 as a result of additional funding through grants.We were able to start new programming in the middle and high schools of LBUSD. It has been a hugh successs, serving over 150 6 & 8 graders, covering new topics such as clay and sewing, built new garden beds so that they can grow their own food. We worked on positive affirmations as we work on their programming. We look forward to starting programming in other area districts as well.
$144,731 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $144,731.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $111k to $40k (−64%).
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.
100% of Adventures to Dreams Enrichment’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
Sheila Grantham
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $10k → $8k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 to Dreams Enrichment’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 to Dreams Enrichment leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
48% 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 to Dreams Enrichment.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 91% · 2023 63% — 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
Adventures to Dreams Enrichment draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $67k 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.
Against its field
Adventures to Dreams Enrichment runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Adventures to Dreams Enrichment
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
0%
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 to Dreams Enrichment: 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 to Dreams Enrichment?
- Adventures to Dreams Enrichment (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $141,072 to it, the largest being GOLDHIRSH FOUNDATION ($50,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Adventures to Dreams Enrichment have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $141,072 in grants to Adventures to Dreams Enrichment, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Adventures to Dreams Enrichment?
- GOLDHIRSH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Adventures to Dreams Enrichment 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing