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PROJECT ADVENTURE INC

PROJECT ADVENTURE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,224,557 to it, the largest being United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ($600,950). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.0M
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
$1.2M
14/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Project Adventure Inc does

Mission

Develop and disseminate model adventure based programs for both therapeutic organizations and corporate training programs throughout the world.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Consulting, instruction and workshops presenting the adventure programming and tools to implement programs in schools and other educational institutions.

    $3,226,496 spent$3,688,478 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Program services-consulting, instruction and workshops presenting the adventure programing and tools to implement programs in schools and other education institutions.

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,226,496.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($1.9M) Expenses 100 ($2.1M) Net assets -176 ($-1374142)2021 Revenue 245 ($4.7M) Expenses 119 ($2.5M) Net assets 100 ($781k)2022 Revenue 203 ($3.9M) Expenses 162 ($3.4M) Net assets 156 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 192 ($3.7M) Expenses 171 ($3.7M) Net assets 160 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 217 ($4.2M) Expenses 190 ($4.1M) Net assets 171 ($1.3M)2025 Revenue 210 ($4.0M) Expenses 193 ($4.1M) Net assets 160 ($1.2M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (210)Expenses (193)Net assets (160)

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 $2.4M to $1.9M (−22%).

$2.4M
$1.9M
$2.1M
$2.3M
$2.2M
$2.1M
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$218k
’20
$2.2M
’21
$438k
’22
$29k
’23
$88k
’24
−$90k
’25
2.3
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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

Jim Oker

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed101011141413
Joined·+0+2+4+0+0
No longer listed·01101
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $15k → $290k.

5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 PROJECT ADVENTURE 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

PROJECT ADVENTURE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

80% 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 PROJECT ADVENTURE INC.

49%
largest funder
78%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 100% · 2019 66% · 2020 75% · 2021 98% · 2022 85% · 2023 66% — broadly stable.

“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

80% of PROJECT ADVENTURE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 82% 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

92% of PROJECT ADVENTURE INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

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MA
NJ
MO

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

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $382k 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

Government funding PROJECT ADVENTURE INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $223k on record.

State$223k
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By state
  • MA$180k
  • VT$15k
  • NJ$15k
  • OK$9k
  • DE$3k

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 PROJECT ADVENTURE 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 Massachusetts

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 20%Fundraising 2%

Governance

14
board members
86%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

81%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds PROJECT ADVENTURE INC?
PROJECT ADVENTURE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,224,557 to it, the largest being United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ($600,950). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PROJECT ADVENTURE INC have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,224,557 in grants to PROJECT ADVENTURE INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PROJECT ADVENTURE INC?
United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc is the largest funder on record, with $600,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PROJECT ADVENTURE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 17 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