Virginia · Nonprofit
ADAPTIVE FITNESS LEGION
ADAPTIVE FITNESS LEGION (Virginia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $166,376 to it, the largest being CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION ($121,750). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $153k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $166k
- Net assets
- $168k
What Adaptive Fitness Legion does
Mission
Adaptive Fitness Legion is a non-profit dedicated to empowering all abilities through adaptive fitness education and training. AFL provides funding for free open gym sessions, free adaptive boxing, and free in-person and online adaptive fitness classes to support individuals living with physical disabilities in the northern Virginia area. Our focus is to aid individuals with physical disabilities in need of some extra support in order to meet their physical fitness goals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Adaptive Boxing Club - Provide free adaptive boxing training and exhibition boxing matches with certified adaptive fitness and boxing trainers. Established the United Adaptive Boxing Council (UABC) and sponsored athlete participation in domestic and international competition in Spain. Working with USA Boxing and Move United to develop para-boxing as a Paralympic sport. Served approximately 20 participants through 2025.
$10,317 spentof which $10,317 as grants16% of program spendingAdaptive Open Gym Wednesdays - Due to the success of Saturday Open Gym, we expanded programming to provide free open gym hours and virtual adaptive fitness classes every Wednesday for up to 8 disabled participants in-person (unlimited virtually) at a time. Adaptive fitness trainers ensure participant safety and help guide workouts. This programming helps participants improve their health and wellness through regular exercise and helps prevent secondary complications to their disability. Served approximately 160 participants in 24 sessions through 2025 as tracked by free ticket orders
$8,500 spentof which $8,500 as grants13% of program spendingAdaptive Open Gym Saturdays - Provide free open gym hours and adaptive fitness classes every Saturday for up to 20 disabled participants at a time. Adaptive fitness trainers ensure participant safety and help guide workouts. This programming helps participants improve their health and wellness through regular exercise and helps prevent secondary complications to their disability. Served approximately 1070 participants in 47 sessions through 2025 as tracked by free ticket orders
$45,749 spentof which $45,749 as grants71% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $64,566.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2024 to 2025, from $87k to $168k (+94%).
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.
100% of ADAPTIVE FITNESS LEGION’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 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $32k → $2k.
2 of 7 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 FITNESS LEGION’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 FITNESS LEGION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 FITNESS LEGION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 68% · 2022 100% · 2023 95% — 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 FITNESS LEGION draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k 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 FITNESS LEGION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ADAPTIVE FITNESS LEGION
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 FITNESS LEGION: 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 FITNESS LEGION?
- ADAPTIVE FITNESS LEGION (Virginia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $166,376 to it, the largest being CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION ($121,750). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADAPTIVE FITNESS LEGION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $166,376 in grants to ADAPTIVE FITNESS LEGION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADAPTIVE FITNESS LEGION?
- CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $121,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADAPTIVE FITNESS LEGION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 7 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