Adventures to Dreams Enrichment
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 831554611
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Long Beach, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5622336223
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $199,406
- Expenses
- $158,961
- Assets
- $78,501
- Liabilities
- $820
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sheila Grantham (CEO)
People named in this filing
- Sheila Grantham (CEO)
- Viviana Goh (Secretary)
- Iesha Foster (Parent Advisory)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We provide hands-on, educational activities for youth ages 4-16. A child's mindset begins to develop at birth. We believe that enrichment can plant positive seeds in the minds of growing youth. This is our Busy hands = Busy minds concept: providing activities that encourage kids to explore their limitless creativity and absorb knowledge about the world around them. Gardening brings tranquility and peace of mind; Combined with hands-on Art and STEM, our activities open their minds to a complete potential for learning, all while experiencing fun, laughter, and excitement. Our hope is that the youth who attend our program leave with the inspiration to dream BIG and the belief that they can achieve anything in life. Adventures to Dreams Enrichment is a vital resource for youth, families, and the community it serves.
What it reported doing in 2024
We were able to increase the activities for the youth ages 4-16 as a result of additional funding through grants.We were able to start new programming in the middle and high schools of LBUSD. It has been a hugh successs, serving over 150 6 & 8 graders, covering new topics such as clay and sewing, built new garden beds so that they can grow their own food. We worked on positive affirmations as we work on their programming. We look forward to starting programming in other area districts as well.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.6%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 91%; rating input score 91
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.3%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.49; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -17.7% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -18.4% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -21.4% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.6% of revenue deployed · 91% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $145K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.