Adversity Into Adventure Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 933703743
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Studio City, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8189215669
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $77,746
- Expenses
- $71,565
- Assets
- $35,916
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DANIEL BAKER (CEO)
People named in this filing
- DANIEL BAKER (CEO)
- JARED HILLMAN (SECRETARY)
- ADAM BICE (CFO)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide funding to high-impact and tax-exempt organizations whose primary purpose is to provide rehabilitaion, recreation and/or neurological research for disabled persons with physical or mental impairment that substantially limits the quality of their lives and activities
What it reported doing in 2025
To encourage as many persons as possible to promote and provide funding for cutting edge medical research at hospitals and medical centers in the study, treatment and cure of paralysis and other life debilitating conditions, and for rehabilitation and recreation for all persons with physical or mental impairments
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.5; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 74.5% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 64% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 44.7% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 92% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $72K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.