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International Surf Therapy Organization

International Surf Therapy Organization (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $159,092 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($97,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$182k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$159k
Net assets
$35k
4/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 31%
01What it does

What International Surf Therapy Organization does

Mission

We are a global community of surf therapy practitioners & researchers harnessing the power of collaboration and the ocean to advance the use of surf therapy as a mental and physical health intervention.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. We are a global community of surf therapy practitioners & researchers harnessing the power of collaboration and the ocean to advance the use of surf therapy as a mental and physical health intervention.Advocating for surf therapy to be used globally to improve mental health. The International Surf Therapy Org is developing industry standards, ethics, and risk management, but our most significant contribution to the field is facilitating high impact research on the effectiveness of surf therapy

    $160,613 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $160,613.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($53k) Expenses 100 ($61k) Net assets 100 ($5k)2022 Revenue 137 ($73k) Expenses 75 ($46k) Net assets 601 ($33k)2023 Revenue 198 ($106k) Expenses 199 ($120k) Net assets 343 ($19k)2024 Revenue 260 ($139k) Expenses 237 ($144k) Net assets 265 ($15k)2025 Revenue 340 ($182k) Expenses 267 ($162k) Net assets 632 ($35k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (340)Expenses (267)Net assets (632)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 2021 to 2022, from $5k to $33k (+501%).

$5k
$33k
$29k
$23k
$35k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of International Surf Therapy Organization’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 16,168 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$7k
’21
$27k
’22
−$14k
’23
−$4k
’24
$20k
’25

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Kris Puanani Primacio

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $33k.

5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 International Surf Therapy Organization’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

International Surf Therapy Organization leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

83% 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 International Surf Therapy Organization.

61%
largest funder
77%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 93% · 2022 56% · 2023 98% — 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.

How long its funders stay

40% of International Surf Therapy Organization's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 36% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

79% of International Surf Therapy Organization'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 $34k that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from funders outside California, across 5 states.

NY
MA
CA
MD
DC

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

’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $125k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

International Surf Therapy Organization has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)36% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds International Surf Therapy Organization?
International Surf Therapy Organization (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $159,092 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($97,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does International Surf Therapy Organization have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $159,092 in grants to International Surf Therapy Organization, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of International Surf Therapy Organization?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $97,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like International Surf Therapy Organization 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 11 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