Keep Climbing
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Deadline
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Grant Type
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Required status
- 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status
Overview
A storytelling-led program about resilience, healing, and moving through impossible circumstances, using film and outdoor experiences to connect outdoor challenge with the emotional reality families are living.
Focus Area: Resilience, healing, and outdoor-based community experiences for families with children battling cancer.
Program Details:
- Storytelling program that expands the mission beyond summit climbing
- Uses documentary film to connect outdoor challenge with emotional reality of families
- Combines film, outdoor experiences, and community healing
- 100% of donations directed toward mission impact
Program Activities:
- Partnerships with outdoor organizations for climbing and healing experiences
- Documentary filmmaking and storytelling projects
- Community gatherings and outdoor experiences (e.g., Via Ferrata climbing in Colorado)
Key Features:
- 4+ women featured in flagship film
- 1 shared mission to keep moving forward
- Emphasis on intimate community, courage, and challenge as vehicle for healing
Partner Organizations:
- First Descents (partnership for outdoor healing and storytelling)
Featured Projects:
- Keep Climbing - The Film: First Descents partnership and story-driven outdoor experience in Estes Park, Colorado
- Worth It All: Documentary tied to Chimborazo climb that raised over $55,000
Organization: The Keep Climbing Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that helps families with a child battling cancer by directly paying their medical bills.
What Keep Climbing Foundation actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2022 — the most recent filing with itemized grants
- Grants in 2022
- 4
- Total given
- $133K
- Median grant
- $19K
- Range
- $6,554–$88K
- By dollars: Tennessee 67%, Maryland 21%, Colorado 8%. Top recipient cities: Memphis, TN; Rockville, MD; Greenwood Village, CO.
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Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Cancer
- Mental health
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