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ACCESSURF HAWAII INC

ACCESSURF HAWAII INC (Hawaii) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $938,027 to it, the largest being ALOHA UNITED WAY INC ($102,310). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.1M
Funders on record
37
Grants received
$938k
Net assets
$982k
18/37 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 28%
01What it does

What Accessurf Hawaii Inc does

Mission

To help people with disabilities and members of their family experience various aspects of the ocean by providing assistance, education, and equipment to learn about the ocean's surf and environment.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Monthly program providing beach and ocean access for anyone with a physical or cognitive disability. Includes specialized equipment such as beach access mats and beach wheelchairs, tandem surfing with trained volunteers and assisted swimming and floating. Serves an average of 60 participants per month.

    $323,833 spent
    60% of program spending
  2. Monthly program providing beach and ocean access for military service members injured, wounded or battling illness. Services an average of 25 participants per month.

    $107,944 spent
    20% of program spending
  3. Special events: a. Quarterly adaptive swim and surf clinics for people with disabilities to learn skills and techniques to be independent on the water. Serves an average of 15 participants per clinic. B. International adaptive surf competition. Surfers with disabilities from around the world compete in a 4-day adaptive surf competition. C. Quarterly adaptive outrigger canoe programs for people with disabilities to experience outrigger canoe paddling.

    $107,944 spent$44,760 earned by the program
    20% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $539,721.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($409k) Expenses 100 ($382k) Net assets 100 ($203k)2018 Revenue 100 ($407k) Expenses 100 ($381k) Net assets 113 ($230k)2019 Revenue 106 ($431k) Expenses 119 ($453k) Net assets 102 ($208k)2020 Revenue 137 ($561k) Expenses 109 ($415k) Net assets 174 ($354k)2021 Revenue 110 ($449k) Expenses 93 ($354k) Net assets 221 ($450k)2022 Revenue 168 ($685k) Expenses 145 ($552k) Net assets 286 ($583k)2023 Revenue 168 ($687k) Expenses 163 ($623k) Net assets 314 ($638k)2024 Revenue 274 ($1.1M) Expenses 201 ($767k) Net assets 483 ($982k)
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Revenue (274)Expenses (201)Net assets (483)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $680k to $1.0M (+49%).

$209k
$245k
$215k
$411k
$459k
$592k
$680k
$1.0M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2020 32% · 2021 39% · 2022 24% · 2023 22% · 2024 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

88% of ACCESSURF HAWAII INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$27k
’17
$26k
’18
−$22k
’19
$146k
’20
$96k
’21
$133k
’22
$64k
’23
$354k
’24
13
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

Eddie Murai

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1613161312151516
Joined·+3+7+3+2+5+3+1
No longer listed·6463230
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $54k → $182k.

6 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of ACCESSURF HAWAII INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

ACCESSURF HAWAII INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

70% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ACCESSURF HAWAII INC.

11%
largest funder
29%
top three
~17
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 41% · 2019 72% · 2020 32% · 2021 34% · 2022 34% · 2023 33% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

27% of ACCESSURF HAWAII INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

ACCESSURF HAWAII INC draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 11 states in all.

IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
MO
VA
MD
DE
HI
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Hawaii out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $165k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ACCESSURF HAWAII INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin32% · top quartile
Months of reserve13.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like ACCESSURF HAWAII INC

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Hawaii

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 13%Fundraising 17%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

92%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

HI

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Questions and answers

Who funds ACCESSURF HAWAII INC?
ACCESSURF HAWAII INC (Hawaii) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $938,027 to it, the largest being ALOHA UNITED WAY INC ($102,310). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ACCESSURF HAWAII INC have?
IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $938,027 in grants to ACCESSURF HAWAII INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ACCESSURF HAWAII INC?
ALOHA UNITED WAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $102,310 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ACCESSURF HAWAII INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Hawaii. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 37 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing