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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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IRS Form 990, 2022. Amounts as reported by the funder. Full 990 history →

Focus Areas & Funding Uses

Fields of Work

  • Cancer
  • Mental health

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