California · Private foundation
Surfing for Hope Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $13k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $139k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Surfing for Hope Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 2 | $13k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $1k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $273 | 0% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $29k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $32k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $14k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $82k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $40k | 55% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cancer Support Community - California Central Coast | $18,000 | 4 | 3% |
| 17 Strong | $14,284 | 5 | 7% |
| San Luis Obispo International Film Festival Inc | $11,624 | 2 | 3% |
| San Luis Obispo County Womenade | $5,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Camp Kesem National | $4,816 | 5 | 0% |
| Surfers of Tomorrow | $4,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Central Coast Dragon Boat Assn | $2,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Jacks Helping Hand Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Dreammakers | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Valley Children's Hospital | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cancer Support Community - California Central Coast | $18,000 | 4 | 3% |
| 17 Strong | $14,284 | 5 | 7% |
| San Luis Obispo International Film Festival Inc | $11,624 | 2 | 3% |
| San Luis Obispo County Womenade | $5,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Camp Kesem National | $4,816 | 5 | 0% |
| Surfers of Tomorrow | $4,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Central Coast Dragon Boat Assn | $2,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Jacks Helping Hand Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Dreammakers | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Valley Children's Hospital | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Corazon Latino Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Surf for Life | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Cambria Community Council Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($212k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Surfing for Hope Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
About Surfing for Hope Foundation
- How much does Surfing for Hope Foundation give?
- Surfing for Hope Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $12,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Surfing for Hope Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (88%), Human Services (4%), Arts & Culture (4%).
- Who are Surfing for Hope Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cancer Support Community - California Central Coast ($18k), 17 Strong ($14k), San Luis Obispo International Film Festival Inc ($12k).
- Does Surfing for Hope Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Surfing for Hope Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Surfing for Hope Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation San Luis Obispo, Network for Good, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Surfing for Hope Foundation based?
- Surfing for Hope Foundation is based in CA.
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