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LEAPS OF FAITH WATER SKI CLUB INC dba LOF ADAPTIVE SKIERS

LEAPS OF FAITH WATER SKI CLUB INC dba LOF ADAPTIVE SKIERS (Connecticut) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $464,883 to it, the largest being ELIZABETH M PFRIEM FOUNDATION ($328,253). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$149k
Revenue FY2025
10
Funders on record
$465k
Grants received
$183k
Net assets
6/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 69%

Against its field

LEAPS OF FAITH WATER SKI CLUB INC dba LOF ADAPTIVE SKIERS has grown faster than half of the 9,643 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−9% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,643 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($81k) Expenses 100 ($94k) Net assets 100 ($75k)2018 Revenue 86 ($69k) Expenses 88 ($83k) Net assets 82 ($62k)2019 Revenue 98 ($79k) Expenses 90 ($85k) Net assets 75 ($56k)2020 Revenue 132 ($107k) Expenses 41 ($38k) Net assets 167 ($125k)2021 Revenue 108 ($88k) Expenses 114 ($108k) Net assets 140 ($105k)2022 Revenue 186 ($151k) Expenses 104 ($98k) Net assets 210 ($157k)2023 Revenue 180 ($146k) Expenses 116 ($109k) Net assets 259 ($194k)2024 Revenue 158 ($127k) Expenses 133 ($125k) Net assets 262 ($197k)2025 Revenue 185 ($149k) Expenses 173 ($163k) Net assets 244 ($183k)
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Revenue (185)Expenses (173)Net assets (244)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of LEAPS OF FAITH WATER SKI CLUB INC dba LOF ADAPTIVE SKIERS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 16,078 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$13k
17
$13k
18
$6k
19
$69k
20
$20k
21
$53k
22
$36k
23
$3k
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$13k
25
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $13k → $97k.

3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)15% 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 LEAPS OF FAITH WATER SKI CLUB INC dba LOF ADAPTIVE SKIERS’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

LEAPS OF FAITH WATER SKI CLUB INC dba LOF ADAPTIVE SKIERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

71%
largest funder
93%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 100% · 2019 77% · 2020 85% · 2021 67% · 2022 72% · 2023 77%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.

How long its funders stay

57% of LEAPS OF FAITH WATER SKI CLUB INC dba LOF ADAPTIVE SKIERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

LEAPS OF FAITH WATER SKI CLUB INC dba LOF ADAPTIVE SKIERS draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 5 states in all.

NY
NJ
CT
DE
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $69k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like LEAPS OF FAITH WATER SKI CLUB INC dba LOF ADAPTIVE SKIERS

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Connecticut

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEAPS OF FAITH WATER SKI CLUB INC dba LOF ADAPTIVE SKIERS: 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 LEAPS OF FAITH WATER SKI CLUB INC dba LOF ADAPTIVE SKIERS?
LEAPS OF FAITH WATER SKI CLUB INC dba LOF ADAPTIVE SKIERS (Connecticut) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $464,883 to it, the largest being ELIZABETH M PFRIEM FOUNDATION ($328,253). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LEAPS OF FAITH WATER SKI CLUB INC dba LOF ADAPTIVE SKIERS have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $464,883 in grants to LEAPS OF FAITH WATER SKI CLUB INC dba LOF ADAPTIVE SKIERS, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LEAPS OF FAITH WATER SKI CLUB INC dba LOF ADAPTIVE SKIERS?
ELIZABETH M PFRIEM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $328,253 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LEAPS OF FAITH WATER SKI CLUB INC dba LOF ADAPTIVE SKIERS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 10funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing