South Carolina · Nonprofit
ADAPTIVE EXPEDITIONS
ADAPTIVE EXPEDITIONS (South Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $205,937 to it, the largest being MOVE UNITED ($166,795). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $79k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $206k
- Net assets
- $37k
What Adaptive Expeditions does
Mission
To use education, sport, and outdoor recreation adventures to empower individuals who have physical and sensory disabilities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Adaptive Expeditions; local sport and outdoor recreations program served 58 individuals with physical or sensory disabilities in 4 adaptive water ski weekends. We also served 18 individuals with personal adaptive paddlesports equipment fitting and instruction. The education and training project also logged 12-hours of consulting for the black river water trail & park network.
$43,718 spent70% of program spendingAdaptive Expeditions presented at multiple 2024 national and state level conferences, including the association for outdoor recreation and education (aore) diversity conference, the river management society national summit, the american canoe association instructor trainer educatior conference, and the university of south carolina medical schools assistive technology conference.
$18,913 spent30% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $62,631.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2019 to 2020, from $140k to $57k (−59%).
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.
90% of ADAPTIVE EXPEDITIONS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Joseph Moore
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $24k → $47k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 ADAPTIVE EXPEDITIONS’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
ADAPTIVE EXPEDITIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 ADAPTIVE EXPEDITIONS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 83% · 2020 100% · 2021 72% · 2022 100% · 2023 76% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
ADAPTIVE EXPEDITIONS draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
ADAPTIVE EXPEDITIONS's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,282 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like ADAPTIVE EXPEDITIONS
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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
87%
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 ADAPTIVE EXPEDITIONS: 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 ADAPTIVE EXPEDITIONS?
- ADAPTIVE EXPEDITIONS (South Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $205,937 to it, the largest being MOVE UNITED ($166,795). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADAPTIVE EXPEDITIONS have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $205,937 in grants to ADAPTIVE EXPEDITIONS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADAPTIVE EXPEDITIONS?
- MOVE UNITED is the largest funder on record, with $166,795 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADAPTIVE EXPEDITIONS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing