North Carolina · Nonprofit
The American Adventure Service Corp
The American Adventure Service Corp (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $431,000 to it, the largest being THE BUCKLEY FOUNDATION ($350,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $321k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $431k
- Net assets
- $108k
What The American Adventure Service Corp does
Mission
We believe every young person has the potential to become a compassionate and transformational community leader. Through adventure, education, service learning, and quality instruction, we strive to develop an individual's strong sense of self, community, and adventurous spirit.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
TAASC has 130 members. 10 students have received financial aid through reduced tuition. TAASC ran over 300 meetings during the year, serving 9 different groups. We ran a big 16 day trip to the Sierra and Yosemite with our Aspen Girls group - our first girls group to do this! We ran 3 other summer expeditions 5- 10 days long We ran 47 trips during the school year, both overnight and day trips. Service projects ran throughout the year and included: Evergreen gardening and keeping the campus clean, clean ups with Asheville Greenworks, Trail building with the Carolina Climbers Coalition, made 30 blankets for Project Linus
$298,144 spentof which $6,000 as grants$234,741 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $298,144.
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 2020 to 2021, from $34k to $170k (+403%).
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.
27% of The American Adventure Service Corp’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $16k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 American Adventure Service 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 American Adventure Service Corp leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 41% · 2022 77% · 2023 65% — 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
The American Adventure Service Corp draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k 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
The American Adventure Service Corp has grown faster than half of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like The American Adventure Service Corp
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The American Adventure Service Corp: 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 The American Adventure Service Corp?
- The American Adventure Service Corp (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $431,000 to it, the largest being THE BUCKLEY FOUNDATION ($350,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The American Adventure Service Corp have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $431,000 in grants to The American Adventure Service Corp, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The American Adventure Service Corp?
- THE BUCKLEY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The American Adventure Service Corp find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 7 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