· Private foundation
Surfing for Hope Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $100
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEARST CANCER RESOURCE CENTER OF FRENCH HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER | $12,500 |
| CAMBRIA COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC | $100 |
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 (FY18–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
12 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CSCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY - CALIFORNIA CENTRAL COAST4× · 2017–2022 · $18k · revenue +25%
- 1S17 STRONG5× · 2017–2022 · $14k · revenue +600%
- SLSAN LUIS OBISPO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC2× · 2019–2020 · $12k · revenue +168%
Funded once
- JHJACKS HELPING HAND INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +130%
- DDREAMMAKERSone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue -101%
- CLCORAZON LATINO INCone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The organizations purpose is to produce the annual Coast Film and Music Festival, community screenings, and education programs that harness the power of film, music, and ideas to inspire a more thoughtful and engaged world.
Dedicated to the future of professional lifesaving in Mexico.
The purpose and goals of Santa Barbara Outrigger Canoe Club (SBOCC) are to foster national and international outrigger canoe competition and to generate public interest and support for these activities. SBOCC is dedicated to providing its…
Sunshine Dreams Foundation is organized exclusively for charitable purposes, more specifically to raise funds for Camp Sunshine Dreams. This camp is for oncology patients and their siblings in ages from 8 to 15 and serves the Central…
The organization's objective is to raise funds through various fundraisers to help local organizations and individuals in the community battling cancer.
Youth recreation youth participation in soccer competitions with teams of youth players.
The mission of San Dieguito Surf Soccer is to provide equitable access to high-quality soccer programs that promote athletic development, personal growth, and community engagement. As a nonprofit organization, we are committed to removing…
Save Oceanside Sand is a group of local activists dedicated to restoring and preserving the beaches of Oceanside, California. Working with local, regional, state, and federal authorities, our mission is to protect this vital resource by…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cancer Support Community - California Central Coast and the most unlike its peers is Dreammakers. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 20 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 CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY - CALIFORNIA CENTRAL COAST ↗
- Who funds 17 STRONG ↗
- Who funds SAN LUIS OBISPO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY WOMENADE ↗
- Who funds Camp Kesem National ↗
- Who funds SURFERS OF TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds Central Coast Dragon Boat Assn ↗
- Who funds JACKS HELPING HAND INC ↗
- Who funds DREAMMAKERS ↗
- Who funds CORAZON LATINO INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds SURF FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIA COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
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: The Community Foundation San Luis Obispo · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Surfing for Hope 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.