California · Nonprofit
CALIFORNIA SURF LIFESAVING ASSOCIATION
CALIFORNIA SURF LIFESAVING ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $114 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($114). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $37k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $114
- Net assets
- $83k
What California Surf Lifesaving Association does
Mission
To promote beach safety awareness and professional lifeguard standards through public education, training programs, exchange programs, junior lifeguard programs, competition, and other means. The ultimate goal is to prevent and reduce aquatic injuries, accidents, and death at open-water beaches in the u.s. And throughout the world.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Promote beach safety awareness and professional open-water lifesaving standards. Members include lifeguards, junior lifeguards, and open water professionals from california and arizona. Assist usla in promulgating minimum recommended lifesaving standards and certifying compliance of over 30 local, county, and state agencies. The csla support the usla with its continued collaboration with the american red cross and the ymca of the us harnessing the expertise of a wide range of professionals in identifying best practices in lifesaving and drowning prevention. Participate as delegates, make presentations, and represent the cslsa to the usla at the semi-annual board of directors meetings. Participate and promote national beach safety week in june of each year.
$37,760 spent100% of program spendingJunior lifeguard programs to provide beach and water safety training for boys and girls ages 9-17. Programs provide education and experience in ocean safety, first aid, rescue techniques, beach activities, physical fitness, and marine safety while exposing participants to an environment that emphasizes courtesy, respect, discipline, and good sportmanship. Junior lifeguards are invited to compete at the cslsa regional competition each year in july, the usla national competition each august, and the california state games in july. They host an annual contest of art, posters, or essays. Annual awards are given for junior lifeguards of the year. Cslsa serves approximately 5,000 junior lifeguards each year.
Host annual lifesaving sport and fitness regional competition in newport beach, ca for lifeguards and junior lifeguards.
Issue awards of heroism to select, deserving citizens and lifeguards.
Exchange of professional and volunteer lifesaving techniques and equipment with lifeguards throughout the world.
Educate the public and increase education of lifesavers to promote water safety.
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $37,760.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $54k to $31k (−43%).
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.
47% of CALIFORNIA SURF LIFESAVING ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10 → $53.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 CALIFORNIA SURF LIFESAVING ASSOCIATION’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.
Where its funders are
100% of CALIFORNIA SURF LIFESAVING ASSOCIATION'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $114 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
CALIFORNIA SURF LIFESAVING ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,076 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,076 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like CALIFORNIA SURF LIFESAVING ASSOCIATION
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CALIFORNIA SURF LIFESAVING ASSOCIATION: 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 CALIFORNIA SURF LIFESAVING ASSOCIATION?
- CALIFORNIA SURF LIFESAVING ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $114 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($114). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CALIFORNIA SURF LIFESAVING ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $114 in grants to CALIFORNIA SURF LIFESAVING ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA SURF LIFESAVING ASSOCIATION?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $114 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALIFORNIA SURF LIFESAVING ASSOCIATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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