New York · Nonprofit
THE ADVENTURE PROJECT CORP
THE ADVENTURE PROJECT CORP (New York) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $737,808 to it, the largest being One Days Wages ($238,414). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $678k
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $738k
- Net assets
- $29k
What The Adventure Project Corp does
Mission
The Adventure Project creates jobs that empower communities in Africa to work their way out of extreme poverty for good
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Health - An estimated 5 million children under 5 die every year, mostly from treatable or preventable causes. This fiscal year, The Adventure Project funded a team of Community Health Workers, rural ambulance drivers, and health educators in Togo to complete an estimated 15,300 patient vists, 2,900 health consultations for children under 5, and 54 rural ambulance transports.
$45,000 spentof which $10,000 as grants26% of program spendingWater - Over half of the worlds 703 million people who lack basic drinking water live in sub-saharan Africa. As a result more than 250,000 children in sub-saharan Africa die each year because of inadequate water, sanitation, and hygiene. This fiscal year, The Adventure Project funded the rehabilitation of 6 broken water boreholes and the hiring and training of 6 Community Water Operators in Ghana. These Community Water Operators are ensuring more than 2,400 people will gain year-round access to safe, reliable drinking water.
$50,226 spentof which $10,000 as grants29% of program spendingHunger - an estimated 278 million people in sub-saharan Africa are undernourished and about 140 million are facing acute food insecurity. We equip subsistence farmers with irrigation and training so they can launch profitable farming businesses. This fiscal year, The Adventure Project funded the creation of an estimated 375 new farming enterprises in Kenya and Rwanda by equipping subsistence farmers with improved irrigation systems. Moreover, we trained 20 new irrigation agents to earn a sustainable living by renting irrigation pumps and providing irrigation services to local farmers.
$79,262 spentof which $10,000 as grants45% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $174,488.
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 2017 to 2018, from $64k to $831k (+1208%).
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.
97% of THE ADVENTURE PROJECT CORP’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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
Rebecca Straw
Executive director
Board chair
Brady Norvall
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $112k → $54k.
10 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 THE ADVENTURE PROJECT CORP’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
THE ADVENTURE PROJECT CORP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% 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 THE ADVENTURE PROJECT CORP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 83% · 2019 75% · 2020 57% · 2021 46% · 2022 48% · 2023 30% — 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
14% of THE ADVENTURE PROJECT CORP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
52% of THE ADVENTURE PROJECT CORP's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $351k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 11 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $387k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
THE ADVENTURE PROJECT CORP's revenue grew 28% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE ADVENTURE PROJECT CORP?
- THE ADVENTURE PROJECT CORP (New York) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $737,808 to it, the largest being One Days Wages ($238,414). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE ADVENTURE PROJECT CORP have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $737,808 in grants to THE ADVENTURE PROJECT CORP, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ADVENTURE PROJECT CORP?
- One Days Wages is the largest funder on record, with $238,414 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ADVENTURE PROJECT CORP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 26 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