· Private foundation
Boardriders Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k3 grants · $3k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUSTAINABLE SURF | $350,000 |
| MIRACLES FOR KIDS | $50,000 |
| CHOC FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FCANCER | $1,400 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAGUNA BEACH | $700 |
| PEDIATRIC CANCER RESERARCH FOUNDATION | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To inspire people to care for and protect our ocean planet through education and research.
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
Helping families and mentoring children with cystic fibrosis
Saa hosts charity swims with the proceeds funding cancer research, prevention and treatment. saa's cause is supported by olympians and thousands of participants and volunteers.
To improve the health, well being, sustainability, and self reliance of people living in isolated regions connected to us through surfing including their ability to respond to environmental conditions caused by climate change.
Save threatened marine life using pioneering research, education, and sustainable conservation solutions
The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…
The nmmf's mission is to improve and protect life for marine mammals, humans, and our shared oceans through science, service, and education. our vision is to be the leading laboratory in marine mammal science, where critical questions…
The California Surf Museum serves as an international repository and resource center on the lifestyle sport of surfing through capturing,preserving and chronicling its art, culture and heritage for the education and enjoyment of current…
Action today so future generations can enjoy ocean activities. programs: clean - eliminate marine debris; ocean - improve coastal water quality; access - protect and preserve shoreline access.
To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.
To advance education, awareness, and scientifically supported solutions to restore and protect marine ecosystems and our way of life for future generations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Surfrider Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ocean River Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE SURF ↗
- Who funds MIRACLES FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ocean River Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHOC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SWIM WITH MIKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WAVES FOR WATER INC ↗
- Who funds SIMA HUMANITARIAN FUND ↗
- Who funds WAVES OF IMPACT ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds TOMAHAWK CHARITABLE SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FCANCER ↗
- Who funds SUGAR RAY LEONARD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAGUNA BEACH ↗
- Who funds PEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Boardriders Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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