New York · Nonprofit
Rochester Accessible Adventures
Rochester Accessible Adventures (New York) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $192,733 to it, the largest being ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($46,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $377k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $193k
- Net assets
- $325k
What Rochester Accessible Adventures does
Mission
To improve the health and wellness of people with disabilities by guiding communities to create a culture of physical accessibility, social inclusion and equitable access in recreation, sports and tourism. (Continued on Sch O.)We address the way our communities strategically and intentionally include people with physical, intellectual, and developmental disabilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Inclusion Partnerships: RAA implements Inclusion Partnerships with recreation businesses to train them to be able to remove both physical and social barriers so that children and adults with disabilities have equitable access. During 2025, we continued our work with our Inclusion Partners, and continued an exciting contractual relationship with NYPA and NYS Canal Corporation, designing and implementing the Accessibility Education Program. This introduced us to many new businesses and entities from Buffalo to Schuylerville so that we can train and support them in making inclusion happen in their programs and services. (Continued on Schedule O.)Our 2025 efforts resulted in the successful removal of many barriers, including programmatic, operational, and physical barriers, and increased outreach to over 10,000 people with disabilities.
$150,427 spent$228,698 earned by the program92% of program spendingAdaptive Sports Teams: RAA supports the development and sustainability of Adaptive & Inclusive Sports (Teams) and in 2025 continued our WNY Adaptive & Inclusive Collaborative with Greater Buffalo Adaptive Sports to address the lack of access to sports across the WNY region. Our adult Sled Hockey team began its season in the Fall and provided clinics for recruiting new players from the community. We continued youth outreach for a new sled hockey program, which should begin in early 2026. RAA also worked with USTA Eastern to provide wheelchair tennis clinics.
$3,646 spent2% of program spendingEducation and Outreach: RAA provides Education & Outreach through our Regional Resource Network to connect people with disabilities, health care professionals who provide services to people with disabilities, and our Community Health Inclusion initiatives. Our work is now distributed to over 10,000 people with disabilities, families and providers in our region. We continued providing access to Inclusion training, and continue to grow the number of inclusion allies in the communities we serve. RAA partnered with URMC and community members to conduct research about the social and physical benefits of playing pickleball for people living with Parkinson's. (Continued on Schedule O.)RAA participated in multiple outreach and education events in 2025 in order to ensure individuals and family members learn about and are directly connected to individuals and family members learn about opportunities that provide inclusive and accessible experience. 8,536 People reached through 107 events, with 249 hours of engagement. Sixty three volunteers gave 1,034.5 hours of service towards RAA's mission.
$10,024 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $164,097.
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 $103k to $223k (+117%).
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.
38% of Rochester Accessible Adventures’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% 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.
Chief executive
Anita O'Brien
Executive Director
Board chair
Julie Cataldo
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $33k → $11k.
2 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 Rochester Accessible Adventures’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
Rochester Accessible Adventures has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
64% 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 Rochester Accessible Adventures.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 61% · 2021 86% · 2022 39% · 2023 47% — 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
50% of Rochester Accessible Adventures's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
57% of Rochester Accessible Adventures's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $46k 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
Rochester Accessible Adventures runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Rochester Accessible Adventures
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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 Rochester Accessible Adventures: 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 Rochester Accessible Adventures?
- Rochester Accessible Adventures (New York) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $192,733 to it, the largest being ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($46,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Rochester Accessible Adventures have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $192,733 in grants to Rochester Accessible Adventures, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Rochester Accessible Adventures?
- ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $46,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Rochester Accessible Adventures find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 16 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