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ADAPTIVE ADVENTURES

EIN 84-1512653 WESTMINSTER, CO

Largest nonprofits in Colorado

Revenue 2025
$2,092,857
Expenses 2025
$1,949,551

Program services were 77.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
E860
Classification
2000
Street
9053 HARLAN ST STE 34

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

Provide progressive outdoor adventures to individuals with physical disabilities and their families, regardless of location, equipment needs, or economic status.

  • Adaptive Adventures is redefining whats possible for individuals with children,adults and veterans with physical disabilities and their families through inclusive, mobile, and family-centered outdoor recreation. Unlike traditional adaptive sports agencies, Adaptive Adventures serves as the inclusive and accessible side of the outdoor recreation industry, bringing the equipment, expertise, and community directly to those who need it most. Adaptive Adventures trains and equips local mentors, clinicians, outfitters, guides, and organizations to sustain programs and normalize adaptation in recreation. With more than 18 fully equipped trailers and satellite programs reaching over 45 states, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands and Canada, our team removes barriers to participation and ensures that every individual, regardless of ability, geography, or income, can experience the freedom of the outdoors.In 2025, our small but mighty staff delivered 635+ programs, serving 4,200+ unique participants with over 11,200+ experiences. Volunteers contributed 9,930+ volunteer hours. Across cycling, climbing, paddlesports, skiing, and more, more than 250 years of combined adaptive recreation expertise, including Paralympians, Olympic and Paralympic coaches, Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialists, and individuals with lived experience of disability, enable our team to connect authentically with participants in their journeys of healing, independence, and joy. More than half of our staff live with a physical disability or serve as caregivers, creating a unique peer-to-peer culture of understanding that empowers others to thrive.Each program begins with connection and ends with transformation. Participants reportremarkable improvements across well-being indicators: 88% experienced improved mental health and expanded social connections, 84% experienced improved physical health and 75% reported increased confidence and optimism about the future. Thriving Score evaluations, developed with the University of Illinois Chicago, show significant gains in purpose, optimism, and belonging, with 4.75 out of 5 average satisfaction in instruction and 4.69 out of 5 in accessibility and accommodations. Nearly 30% of participants attend 20 or more programs, underscoring sustained engagement and long-term impact.For many, the impact extends far beyond sport, cycling becomes transportation back to work or school, climbing restores confidence after injury, paddlesports build family connection, and skiing rekindles a sense of freedom. One participant shared, I said Id never rock climbbut I do it anyway. Its all about what you can still do. Groups like Adaptive Adventures are so important because you get that sense of community. Its nice to have people who get it and understand what it takes to keep going. Im not sitting at home feeling sorry for myself. Im out doing something. And thats the point. Adam, U.S. veteran, Fort Collins, ColoradoAdaptive Adventures provides all programs free of charge to participants. In 2025, Adaptive Adventures laid the groundwork for the 2026 launch of its new app, designed to strengthen connections beyond individual programs, reduce isolation, and expand access to resources that help participants thrive.Adaptive Adventures leadership and impact continue to be recognized nationally and locally. In 2025, the organization was awarded the Best Nonprofit in Westminster Award, the City of Westminster Community Spirit Award, the State of Colorado Workplace Safety Recognition Award, the Bronze Award Winner for Anthem Awards Community Engagement, Defender Service Awards Finalist, Governors Excellence in Tourism Finalist and Impact100 Veterans Award. Across all programs, Adaptive Adventures fosters belonging through its guiding belief: Where adventure moves us, community holds us, joy heals us, freedom begins.Every mile pedaled, every paddle stroke, and every shared smile represents more than recreation; its a step toward freedom through mobility, physical and mental health, camaraderie, and human flourishing. Donor support sustains this life-changing work, ensuring thousands more individuals with disabilities across the nation can experience freedom through adventure.

    Expenses $1,502,637

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Elder Chelsea

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $126,186
    From this org
    $126,186
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Thomas Sauder

    Pres/Treas

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mervet Rodriquez

    VP/Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Matt Lucas

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Gary Verrazono

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jeff Cain

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • O'Connell Brian

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $2,092,857
    Expenses
    $1,949,551
    Contributions
    $1,980,826
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,931,804
    Expenses
    $2,151,831
    Contributions
    $1,813,264
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,004,517
    Expenses
    $1,952,090
    Contributions
    $1,859,754
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,004,517
    Expenses
    $1,952,090
    Contributions
    $1,859,754
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,887,710
    Expenses
    $1,697,094
    Contributions
    $1,499,184
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,550,699
    Expenses
    $1,481,210
    Assets (EOY)
    $365,772

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,110,944
    Expenses
    $1,116,991
    Assets (EOY)
    $293,911

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,321,938
    Expenses
    $822,913
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,036,478

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $752,758
    Expenses
    $693,440
    Assets (EOY)
    $454,563

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $727,813
    Assets (EOY)
    $410,262

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $519,726
    Assets (EOY)
    $310,274

  • 2010 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $418,332
    Assets (EOY)
    $291,479

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.