Is it real?
Yes. Never revoked by the IRS. Latest filing on record: FY2024. IRS ruling in Mar 2018.
IRS Pub. 78 · IRS Auto-Revocation List · IRS Business Master File
Where the money goes
83 cents of each dollar spent went to programs.
Form 990 Part IX, line 25, columns B–D. Every line is in By the numbers.
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Who runs it and what they're paid
5 people listed on the 990; $160K paid to officers and key staff.
Adam Davis’s $66K as Executive Dir. is at the 56th percentile of top reported officer pay among 2168 $100K–1M human services nonprofits. Peer set: organizations in the same NTEE major field of work and revenue-size band, compared on each org’s own highest-paid officer/key-employee, from Form 990 Part VII / 990-PF Part VIII. Descriptive placement, not a verdict on whether the pay is appropriate.
Compensation history total reportable pay by year · 2 named individuals · Part VII
| Name | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | FY2021 | FY2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adam Davis | $65,664 | $88,974 | $96,388 | $96,000 | $80,000 |
| Adam Johns | — | — | $77,124 | $96,000 | $80,000 |
Total reportable compensation (Form 990 Part VII column D / Schedule J column E) by filing year, matched by name within this organization. The Schedule J base / bonus / deferred breakdown is not parsed into this dataset.
See Game to Grow executive salaries →Questions the 990 asks
The form asks each of these directly. These are the filed answers.
- Family or business ties among officersPt VI · Ln 2No
- Top official's pay set by an independent reviewPt VI · Ln 15aNo
Programs and updates
Provides therapeutic gaming groups and trains others to use games for community growth.
Questions for Game to Grow
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Critical Core
Critical Core is a product which was designed to help parents, teachers, and therapists learn to use RPG games with intentionally designed outcomes related to building social skills. Critical Core is sold as a digital or physical game kit providing storylines, rules, and facilitator guidance for individuals who are wanting to use RPGs…
Therapeutic Groups Program
Therapeutic groups use games such as Dungeons and Dragons and Minecraft to build social confidence and skills using a model developed by Game to Grow focused on social flourishing. In 2020 the program expanded services from around 50 teens and youth per week in the greater Seattle area, to over 120 teens and youth per week across the…
Individual Counseling Program
In 2020 Game to Grow expanded services to include individual psychology and counseling services. Serving up to 21 individuals each week in individual counseling services by the end of 2020. Individual counseling services focus on an understanding and use of geek game culture within the practice of therapy.
Funders
Who pays for it.
From grant filings on record. Receipts are incomplete: individual donors are never listed.
Grants
By the numbers
The FY2020 990, line by line.
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| Line | Start FY20 | End FY20 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash and savingsLn 1–2 | $192K | $209K |
| Total assetsLn 16 | $192K | $211K |
| LiabilitiesLn 26 | $1K | $1K |
| Net assetsLn 32 | $190K | $210K |
| Line | Total | Programs | Management | Fundraising |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pay of current officers, directors and key staffLn 5 | $160K | $116K | $28K | $16K |
| Other salaries and wagesLn 7 | $119K | $119K | ||
| Other employee benefitsLn 9 | $7K | $6K | $285 | $190 |
| Payroll taxesLn 10 | $26K | $23K | $1K | $990 |
| Legal feesLn 11b | $1K | $757 | $478 | |
| Accounting feesLn 11c | $3K | $3K | ||
| Other fees for servicesLn 11g | $20K | $17K | $3K | |
| Advertising and promotionLn 12 | $1K | $1K | ||
| Office expensesLn 13 | $592 | $105 | $465 | $22 |
| Information technologyLn 14 | $5K | $4K | $880 | $165 |
| OccupancyLn 16 | $41K | $35K | $6K | |
| TravelLn 17 | $3K | $670 | $2K | |
| Conferences, conventions and meetingsLn 19 | $619 | $500 | $119 | |
| InsuranceLn 23 | $6K | $4K | $2K | $557 |
| Other expenses (24a–d)Ln 24 | $29K | $22K | $6K | $871 |
| All other expensesLn 24e | $2K | $2K | $206 | |
| Total functional expensesLn 25 | $424K | $351K | $50K | $24K |
Filing history
| Year | Money in | Money out | In minus out | Net assets | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024 LatestFiled with the IRS Nov 14, 2025 | $229K | $223K | $7K | $114K | 990 PDF |
| FY2023Filed with the IRS Nov 13, 2024 | $879K | $791K | $87K | $107K | 990 PDF |
| FY2022Filed with the IRS Jul 20, 2023 | $962K | $1.3M | −$357K | $20K | 990 PDF |
| FY2021Filed with the IRS Nov 14, 2022 | $956K | $791K | $165K | $377K | 990 PDF |
| FY2020 ViewingFiled with the IRS Nov 3, 2021 | $444K | $424K | $20K | $210K | 990 PDF |
Schedules filed Part IV
See the full FY2020 990 (6 parts)
Part I · Summary $444,211 revenue, 12 lines filed
Part VI · Governance 3 of 3 board members independent, 2 to look at
Part VIII · Statement of revenue $444,211 across 6 lines filed
Part IX · Statement of functional expenses $424,327 across 16 lines filed
Part X · Balance sheet $211,400 assets, 9 lines filed
Part XI · Reconciliation of net assets $210,182 net assets at year end
Form 990 e-file (XML) FY2020 from the IRS · Classification, formation year and address from the IRS Business Master File
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