Vermont · Nonprofit
HIGH 5 ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC
HIGH 5 ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC (Vermont) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $118,278 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($36,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $118k
- Net assets
- $943k
What High 5 Adventure Learning Center Inc does
Mission
Dedicated to helping individuals, schools, and communities use experiential education as an effective tool for improving the way they live, learn, and work together.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Challenge course services: challenge course services provides the tools and equipment that support adventure programming. We design, install, inspect and repair challenge courses of all sizes, provide ongoing consulting services to these programs, and partner with our customers to integrate all of high 5's services in ways that schools, youth and service organizations, camps, etc., can afford.
$1,166,671 spent$1,298,853 earned by the program55% of program spendingTraining and team development: the training and team development team teaches individuals, schools, businesses, and communities from across the northeast how to improve problem-solving and conflict-resolution skills, increase team communication and performance, create an atmosphere of cooperation, trust and encouragement, and discover and effectively capitalize on group resources. Through our technical and facilitation trainings and our annual symposium, hundreds of teachers and school staff, social service workers, camp staff, military and law enforcement personnel and many others train with us each year to guide their own adventure programs, learn and improve their challenge course technical skills and develop their own facilitation skills and style. We give them the tools that they need to make a difference in other peoples' lives.
$633,743 spent$721,844 earned by the program30% of program spendingEdge of leadership: the edge of leadership program provides adventure-based youth leadership development through work performed in schools and on our brattleboro campus and challenge course. Our four experiential educators with 65 years of collective experience guide students in grades 5 through 12, and their teachers, to develop critical thinking and problem solving skills, increase social and emotional intelligence, work collaboratively in and out of the classroom, manage projects while guiding and leading others, and open doors to improving school culture and academic performance. In 2015 eol launched a demonstration project to apply the eol model system-wide in the keene, nh school district. We deliver ourprograms to all 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th graders in the classroom throughout the school year, and students visit our location and challenge course each semester. High school participants receive leadership development training in the summer at high 5 and then identify a particular issue to work on and improve in their school, with leadership development programming that includes teachers. Total served during the 2020-2021 school year: 175+ students and educators. Since 2011,…
$335,538 spent$35,770 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,135,952.
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 2020 to 2021, from $667k to $2.0M (+198%).
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: 2020 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of HIGH 5 ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Jennifer Ottinger
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $5k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 HIGH 5 ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC’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
HIGH 5 ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
52% 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 HIGH 5 ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 83% · 2020 98% · 2021 54% · 2022 67% · 2023 98% — 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 HIGH 5 ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
HIGH 5 ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
HIGH 5 ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like HIGH 5 ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC
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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HIGH 5 ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC?
- HIGH 5 ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC (Vermont) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $118,278 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($36,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HIGH 5 ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $118,278 in grants to HIGH 5 ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HIGH 5 ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $36,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HIGH 5 ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 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