California · Nonprofit
ASSOCIATION OF AMPUTEE SURFERS DBA AMP SURF
ASSOCIATION OF AMPUTEE SURFERS DBA AMP SURF (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,049 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($48,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
ASSOCIATION OF AMPUTEE SURFERS DBA AMP SURF has grown faster than half of the 21,584 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,584 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Community Foundation San Luis Obispolocal
- Move Unitedportfolio match
- The Hanger Charitable Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 28% · 2018 22% · 2020 26% · 2021 37% · 2022 22% · 2023 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of ASSOCIATION OF AMPUTEE SURFERS DBA AMP SURF’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $29k → $166.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 ASSOCIATION OF AMPUTEE SURFERS DBA AMP SURF’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 7 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
ASSOCIATION OF AMPUTEE SURFERS DBA AMP SURF leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 ASSOCIATION OF AMPUTEE SURFERS DBA AMP SURF.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 79% · 2020 100% · 2021 83% · 2022 96% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
90% of ASSOCIATION OF AMPUTEE SURFERS DBA AMP SURF's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $6k that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- The Community Foundation San Luis ObispolocalCA · funds 117 organizations near you
- Move Unitedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Hanger Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dralla Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Surfing's Evolution & Preservation Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Disabled American Veterans California Rehabilitation Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Independence Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Ability Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tortugas Care Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Danny Kwock Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jolley Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Christopher Reeve Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding ASSOCIATION OF AMPUTEE SURFERS DBA AMP SURF receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $822k on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$822k
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 ASSOCIATION OF AMPUTEE SURFERS DBA AMP SURF
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASSOCIATION OF AMPUTEE SURFERS DBA AMP SURF: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF AMPUTEE SURFERS DBA AMP SURF?
- ASSOCIATION OF AMPUTEE SURFERS DBA AMP SURF (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,049 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($48,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ASSOCIATION OF AMPUTEE SURFERS DBA AMP SURF have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $61,049 in grants to ASSOCIATION OF AMPUTEE SURFERS DBA AMP SURF, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION OF AMPUTEE SURFERS DBA AMP SURF?
- Boston Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $48,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSOCIATION OF AMPUTEE SURFERS DBA AMP SURF 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.
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 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing