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Surfing's Evolution & Preservation Foundation Inc at a glance

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Surfing's Evolution & Preservation Foundation Inc

Preservation of surfing, and its history, as a sport and recreational activity.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
46
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Animals$1.2MEnvironment$1.2MRecreation & Sports$1.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$368kCommunity Improvement$123kArts & Culture$85kHealth$84kScience & Tech$36kOther$0
02FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 46 grants below total $1,011,581, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,223,641 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $212,060 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $109k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $514k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $389k
$13,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FLORIDA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION INC$120,000
FLORIDA BEACH PATROL CHIEFS ASSOCIA$108,858
DROWN ZERO INTERNATIONAL$100,000
GUY HARVEY FOUNDATION$60,000
KEEP FLORIDA BEAUTIFUL$44,285
SPECIAL OLYMPICS$40,000
BLUE SCHOLARS INITIATIVE INC$35,000
FLORIDA SURF FILM FESTIVAL INC$30,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS OF CENTRAL FLORI$25,000
BEACHES GO GREEN$22,900
CLEARWATER MARINE AQUARIUM$22,125
BREVARD ZOO$22,000
BYRNE OCEAN CONSERVATION INC$21,000
MORAES INC$20,750
LOGGERHEAD MARINE LIFE CENTER INC$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF CENTRAL FLORI: $25k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF THE SOUTHEAST: $10k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF CENTRAL FLORI: $25k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF THE SOUTHEAST: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 42 repeat orgs$388k to everyone else

42 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
28

Total granted

$4.0M
$276k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+25%

Still filing today

76%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $112k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentRecreation & SportsHealthAnimalsCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • EC
    EAST COAST ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF FLORIDA INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +99%
  • FS
    FLORIDA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $349k · revenue +110%
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $250k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF MATANZAS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $34k · revenue +81%
  • SB
    SATELLITE BEACH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
    one grant, 2024 · $28k
  • BJ
    BEACH JUNKI INC
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Clean Reefs
Environment
2
Symbioseas

Marine research

Science & Tech
3
Friends of Our Florida Reefs

Environmental conservation for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes.

Environment
4
Sociedad Ambiente Marino

Environmental and water protection and education

Education
5
Coastal Cleanup Corporation

Coastal habitat restoration and public education about marine debris and plastic pollution.

Environment
6
Palm Beach County Surfing History Project Inc
—
7
Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc

In 2024, biscayne bay waterkeeper (d/b/a miami waterkeeper) built on our reputation by navigating challenges, seizing opportunities, and continuing our unwavering commitment to safeguarding our precious waterways and finding local…

Environment
8
Florida Ocean Clean Up Society Inc
Health
9
Coral Conservancy
—
10
The Coral Reef and Marine Science Foundation Inc C/O James Bildner
—
11
Sarasota Bay Watch Inc

To preserve and restore sarasota bay's ecosystem through education and citizen participation.

Environment
12
Ocean Aid 360 Inc

Ocean aid 360 organizes events with volunteers from the local community to find, retrieve, and recycle marine debris and derelict fishing gear from the local watershed in order to restore essential fish habitat. ocean aid 360 supplies…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Keep Palm Beach County Beautiful; the most unlike its peers is Future 6 Helping Hand Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 79 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/48
Grantees still filing
25/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EAST COAST ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF FLORIDA INC: $1,105,000 · AnimalsEAST COAST ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF F…Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc: $197,927 · AnimalsClearwater Marine Aquarium Inc+1 more: $8,000 · AnimalsFLORIDA BEACH PATROL CHIEFS ASSOCIA: $343,968 · OtherFLORIDA BEACH PATROL CHIEFS…BYRNE OCEAN CONSERVATION: $119,749 · OtherBYRNE OCEAN CONSERVATIONROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $110,000 · OtherROTARY INTERNATIONALAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $70,000 · OtherAmerican National Red Cross…+35 more: $405,313 · Other+35 moreFLORIDA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $349,000 · Recreation & SportsFLORIDA STATE PARKS F…SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc: $250,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS FLOR…FLORIDA BOARD RIDERS INC: $64,500 · Recreation & SportsFLORIDA BOARD RIDERS …SURFEARNEGRA: $62,000 · Recreation & SportsSURFEARNEGRASTREETWAVES INC: $37,500 · Recreation & Sports+4 more: $62,700 · Recreation & Sports+4 moreKEEP FLORIDA BEAUTIFUL INC: $167,025 · EnvironmentKEEP FLORIDA BEAUTI…GUY HARVEY OCEAN FUND INC: $115,000 · EnvironmentGUY HARVEY OCEAN FU…KEEP PINELLAS BEAUTIFUL INC: $91,400 · EnvironmentKEEP PINELLAS BEAUT…Marine Order for Research & Action Through Environmental Stewardship: $55,750 · EnvironmentMarine Order for Re…BEACHES GO GREEN INC: $48,446 · EnvironmentBEACHES GO GREEN IN…Blue Scholars Initiative Inc: $35,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF MATANZAS INC: $34,000 · EnvironmentTHE HEALTHY EARTH ORGANIZATION INC: $30,000 · EnvironmentMIAMI-DADE COASTAL CLEANUP INC: $25,000 · Environment+12 more: $137,307 · Environment+12 moreDROWN ZERO INTERNATIONAL INC: $201,000 · Public Safety & DisasterCOASTAL CONNECTIONS INC: $70,495 · Community ImprovementBEACH BUCKET FOUNDATION INC: $53,000 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF A1A SCENIC AND HISTORIC COASTAL BYWAY INC: $14,000 · Community ImprovementFLORIDA SURF FILM FESTIVAL INC: $55,000 · Arts & CulturePHILLIP AND PATRICIA FROST MUSEUM OF SCIENCE INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureMARINE DISCOVERY CENTER: $15,000 · Arts & Culture
Animals$1,310,927Other$1,049,030Recreation & Sports$825,700Environment$738,928Public Safety & Disaster$201,000Community Improvement$137,495Arts & Culture$100,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEAST COAST ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF FLORIDA INC: $1,105,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetFLORIDA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $349,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc: $250,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetDROWN ZERO INTERNATIONAL INC: $201,000 over 2y, 87% of budgetClearwater Marine Aquarium Inc: $197,927 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetKEEP FLORIDA BEAUTIFUL INC: $167,025 over 4y, 32% of budgetGUY HARVEY OCEAN FUND INC: $115,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetKEEP PINELLAS BEAUTIFUL INC: $91,400 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetCOASTAL CONNECTIONS INC: $70,495 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA BOARD RIDERS INC: $64,500 over 5y, 16% of budgetSURFEARNEGRA: $62,000 over 5y, 49% of budgetMarine Order for Research & Action Through Environmental Stewardship: $55,750 over 2y, 43% of budgetFLORIDA SURF FILM FESTIVAL INC: $55,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetBEACH BUCKET FOUNDATION INC: $53,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetBEACHES GO GREEN INC: $48,446 over 3y, 38% of budgetSTREETWAVES INC: $37,500 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetBlue Scholars Initiative Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF MATANZAS INC: $34,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetPHILLIP AND PATRICIA FROST MUSEUM OF SCIENCE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HEALTHY EARTH ORGANIZATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetLOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC: $28,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMIAMI-DADE COASTAL CLEANUP INC: $25,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetVOLUNTEER LIFE SAVINGS CORP INC: $23,700 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $23,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE RESOURCES COUNCIL OF EAST FLORIDA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetSTEWARDS OF OUR URBAN LAKES INC: $19,720 over 2y, 57% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Gift of Swimming Inc: $18,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetMARINE DISCOVERY CENTER: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF A1A SCENIC AND HISTORIC COASTAL BYWAY INC: $14,000 over 2y, 54% of budgetKEEP INDIAN RIVER BEAUTIFUL INC: $14,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetOceans of Hope FoundationInc: $14,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetSURFERS FOR AUTISM II INC: $14,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetKeep Pensacola Beautiful Inc: $12,737 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BREVARD COUNTY INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKEEP TAMPA BAY BEAUTIFUL: $9,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHUBBS-SEA WORLD RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKEEP NASSAU BEAUTIFUL INC: $7,500 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetFUTURE 6 HELPING HAND INC: $7,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetBEACH KEEPERS INC: $6,500 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetKEEP LEE COUNTY BEAUTIFUL INC: $6,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTask Force Hydro 1: $6,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetKeep Wakulla County Beautiful Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetKEEP PALM BEACH COUNTY BEAUTIFUL: $6,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetBREVARD PREVENTION COALITION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Keep America Beautifu…Community Foundation …Bass Pro Shops & Cabe…Kimley-Horn FoundationEnterprise Holdings F…Mightycause Charitabl…Duke Energy FoundationThe Bank of America C…Charities Aid Foundat…Verizon FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …
Keep America Beautiful IncCT19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Keep America Beautiful Inc · Community Foundation for Brevard Inc · Bass Pro Shops & Cabelas Outdoor Fund · Kimley-Horn Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Verizon Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Surfing's Evolution & Preservation Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Surfing's Evolution & Preservation Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 260%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Coastal Connections Inc: 96% of income from government
  • Brevard Prevention Coalition Inc: 28% of income from government
  • Keep Wakulla County Beautiful Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc: 1% of income from government
  • United Way of Brevard County Inc: 1% of income from government
  • East Coast Zoological Society of Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Miami-Dade Coastal Cleanup Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Guy Harvey Ocean Fund Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Keep Lee County Beautiful Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
26get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 79 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home