Wisconsin · Nonprofit
ACCESS ABILITY WISCONSIN INC
ACCESS ABILITY WISCONSIN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $443,586 to it, the largest being MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($200,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $307k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $444k
- Net assets
- $655k
What Access Ability Wisconsin Inc does
Mission
Access ability wisconsin, inc (aaw)'s mission is to provide expertise and resources to promote access and opportunities for people with temporary or permanent mobility challenges (such as injuries resulting in paralysis) to experience nature just like everybody else. By providing adaptive equipment and education, aaw promotes participation, leadership, and holistic well-being. Our clients report significant increases in independence, dignity, and freedom along with the ability to experience the great outdoors with family and friends or on their own.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Individuals - we provide for free (with a small refundable deposit), an outdoor wheelchair (owc) & enclosed trailer that only individuals with mobility challenges and disabilities can use to explore the great outdoors. Aaw's model is unique in that the individuals can reserve equipment and take it wherever they want to go with it or use it on-site at certain network partner locations. Aaw's fleet consists of 34 owcs and 28 trailers. The fleet includes event trailers that hold multiple owcs. Since inception, over 1,000-1,500 people per year have directly benefited from our programs in 2024. Aaw's network of local community partners in 13 wi counties facilitates our hosting program. This makes aaw equipment available for local use.
$96,845 spent39% of program spendingCommunity engagement - our comprehensive programs provide support and resources to organizations and community groups to collaborate on how to blend and market "outdoor access 4 all!" within their programs to enhance services to increase health and wellness by providing opportunities to experience nature and access the great outdoors. This education and collaboration help local community partners reach visitors and residents of all abilities in their communities so they can include them in the outdoor programming. Aaw's impact in 2024 was over 50,000 people learning aaw's mission and goals by attending and co-hosting events.
$93,221 spent37% of program spendingProgram education (for all ages to be participants and leaders) - equity, access and inclusion are rarely implemented in existing conservation, environmental and outdoor educational programs throughout the state and the country. Aaw leaders and staff focus on educating the boards, teachers, and leaders of these existing programs. When the aaw team successfully shares and teaches other organizations about our programming (veterans, youth, older adults, community engagement, hosting, and peer mentoring action), these organizations have tools to implement access, participation, leadership, and holistic well-being for individuals with mobility challenges and their families.
$61,350 spent24% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $251,416.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $369k to $656k (+78%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 7% · 2023 18% · 2024 11% · 2025 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of ACCESS ABILITY WISCONSIN INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Tim Chaussee
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $18k → $105k.
3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ACCESS ABILITY WISCONSIN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ACCESS ABILITY WISCONSIN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ACCESS ABILITY WISCONSIN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 50% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 81% · 2022 55% · 2023 95% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
100% of ACCESS ABILITY WISCONSIN INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
51% of ACCESS ABILITY WISCONSIN INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $219k that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $224k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ACCESS ABILITY WISCONSIN INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,010 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,010 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ACCESS ABILITY WISCONSIN INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACCESS ABILITY WISCONSIN INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ACCESS ABILITY WISCONSIN INC?
- ACCESS ABILITY WISCONSIN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $443,586 to it, the largest being MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($200,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ACCESS ABILITY WISCONSIN INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $443,586 in grants to ACCESS ABILITY WISCONSIN INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACCESS ABILITY WISCONSIN INC?
- MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACCESS ABILITY WISCONSIN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 15 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing