California · Nonprofit
Outward Bound Adventures
Outward Bound Adventures (California) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,714,790 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($400,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Outward Bound Adventures does
Mission
Leading Outdoor Education Through Meaningful Nature-based Education That Promotes Positive Self-development, Environment Responsibility and Outdoor Career Exposure
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The yrg grand program is aimed at diverting youth from initial or subsequent contact with the juvenile justice system using approaches that are evidence-based, culturally relevant, trauma-informed, and developmentally appropriate. Grants funds will be used to target underserved communities. Grantees include local government agencies and community-based originations. All grantees must provide diversion and alternate-sanction programs, academic and vocational education services, mentoring behavioral health services, and/or mental health services.
$659,225 spent55% of program spendingEnvironmental stewardship education (ese) is a year-round series of experiential trips and courses that engage participants in environmental education, conservation, and career education. These courses are one-day, weekend and extended summer trips that go to a variety of locations and enhance our participants both in the wilderness and community.
$435,394 spent37% of program spendingObas core programs are centered on a wide range of in-school and after-school programs, one-day, weekend, and extended expeditions to natural areas, and work career opportunities for youth and young adults. Our programs are deigned to connect not only urban youth to open spaces and employment opportunities that go beyond their normal consideration. In its core programs, oba also offers the diverse outdoor leadership institute (doli) which is a training programs designed to develop and train a cadre of elite wilderness leaders of color that will expose urban youth to our national parks, forests, and other wilderness areas.
$95,073 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,189,692.
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.
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 $784k to $1.6M (+103%).
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: 2021 15% · 2022 19% · 2023 22% · 2024 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Outward Bound Adventures’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Nina Moore
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $9k → $348k.
7 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 Outward Bound Adventures’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
Outward Bound Adventures has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
63% 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 Outward Bound Adventures.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 56% · 2019 62% · 2020 44% · 2021 45% · 2022 53% · 2023 29% — 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
36% of Outward Bound Adventures's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
74% of Outward Bound Adventures's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $669k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Outward Bound Adventures holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Outward Bound Adventures receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $350k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$350k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Outward Bound Adventures
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.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Outward Bound Adventures: 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 Outward Bound Adventures?
- Outward Bound Adventures (California) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,714,790 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($400,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Outward Bound Adventures have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,714,790 in grants to Outward Bound Adventures, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Outward Bound Adventures?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Outward Bound Adventures 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 29 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