California · Nonprofit
AQUA-NUT DIVERS
AQUA-NUT DIVERS (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,368 to it, the largest being DISABLED VETERANS NATIONAL FOUNDATION ($20,782). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $96k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $22k
- Net assets
- $109k
What Aqua-Nut Divers does
Mission
Our purposed is to certify disabled veterans to scuba dive at no cost to the student. We work with local veteran groups to identify and interview potential veterans for the program. After they have medical clearances, we teach scuba diving skills through classroom and pool environments. The certifications take place off the coast of california and are overseen by the volunteer staff of Aqua-Nut Divers. Once certified the veterans are encouraged to continue their scuba education with other scuba classes Aqua-Nut Divers offer within the program I.e. Advanced and rescue diver. Veterans are also trained to use specialty scuba equipment to increase their knowledge of scuba activities. Aqua-Nut Divers is committed to diver safety and strives to have a student to staff ratio of 2:1. To encourage veterans to continue diving, we charter dive boats throughout the year for any veteran certified in scuba diving to dive for free the day of the charter.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In 2025, Aqua-Nut Divers certified four disabled veterans as open water (beginner) scuba divers and also three disabled veterans in advanced certifications. Twelve veterans were trained to use specialty scuba equipment. These newly trained divers will be given the opportunity to increase their knowledge and skill in upcoming classes. There is no cost to the disabled veteran and all staff of Aqua-Nut Divers volunteer their time to the organization's vision of assisting veteran's reentry into workplace and community.
$26,760 spentof which $26,760 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $26,760.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
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 $49k to $89k (+80%).
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.
100% of AQUA-NUT DIVERS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Eric Schimon
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $21k → $175.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 AQUA-NUT DIVERS’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
AQUA-NUT DIVERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 AQUA-NUT DIVERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2022 71% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
AQUA-NUT DIVERS draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $586 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
AQUA-NUT DIVERS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding AQUA-NUT DIVERS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $328k on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$328k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AQUA-NUT DIVERS
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AQUA-NUT DIVERS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AQUA-NUT DIVERS?
- AQUA-NUT DIVERS (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,368 to it, the largest being DISABLED VETERANS NATIONAL FOUNDATION ($20,782). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AQUA-NUT DIVERS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $22,368 in grants to AQUA-NUT DIVERS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AQUA-NUT DIVERS?
- DISABLED VETERANS NATIONAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,782 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AQUA-NUT DIVERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 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