The Grand Adventure

Legal name: The Children's Grand Adventure Dba the Grand Adnevture

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
274910905
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Houston, Texas, US
Phone
5122944555
Rating
69
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Children's, Youth Services

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$168,363
Expenses
$175,918
Assets
$357,461
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

People named in this filing

  • STACEY C KAYEM (DIRECTOR)
  • DR ZOANN E DREYER (DIRECTOR)
  • LISA K MCCOY (DIRECTOR)

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

The Grand Adventure is committed to steadfast and un-fractured support through the entire course of a patients’ path (diagnosis-treatment-recovery-maintenance-into survivorship). Our healing tool is the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, but our reach is worldwide.

What it reported doing in 2024

Inspiration point - enable youth aged 13-17 cancer patients who have begun the remission process from partnering hospitals to experience the beauty of life found within grand teton and yellowstone national parks.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 44
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 45
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 45%; rating input score 45
  • Program expense ratio: 43.1%; rating input score 43

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: -4.5%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.03; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 37.2%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 41.9% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 45% of revenue deployed · 43.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $76K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 45/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 43/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.