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OCEAN CURE INC

OCEAN CURE INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,309 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($10,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$76k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$32k
Net assets
$74k
4/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Ocean Cure Inc does

Mission

Ocean cure is dedicated to improve the quality of life for medically fragile and at-risk individuals through adaptive surfing and increased beach accessibility.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provided free surf camps for medically fragile or at risk children and adults including those affected by aids, autism, cerebral palsy, visual impairments, terminal illnesses, and other disabilities.

    $93,434 spentof which $4,700 as grants
    100% of program spending
  2. Provided free surf camps for medically fragile or at risk children and adults including those affected by aids, autism, cerebral palsy, visual impairments, terminal illnesses, and other disabilities.

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $93,434.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($38k) Expenses 100 ($42k) Net assets 100 ($44k)2021 Revenue 288 ($111k) Expenses 178 ($75k) Net assets 181 ($80k)2022 Revenue 284 ($109k) Expenses 312 ($131k) Net assets 130 ($58k)2023 Revenue 337 ($129k) Expenses 222 ($93k) Net assets 212 ($94k)2024 Revenue 548 ($211k) Expenses 484 ($204k) Net assets 228 ($101k)2025 Revenue 198 ($76k) Expenses 245 ($103k) Net assets 167 ($74k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (198)Expenses (245)Net assets (167)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 2020 to 2021, from $45k to $80k (+79%).

$45k
$80k
$61k
$94k
$101k
$83k
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

95% of OCEAN CURE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,075 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$4k
’20
$36k
’21
−$22k
’22
$36k
’23
$7k
’24
−$27k
’25
6.1
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.

20242025
Listed23
Joined··
No longer listed··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $244 → $6k.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 OCEAN CURE INC’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

OCEAN CURE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

54% 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 OCEAN CURE INC.

31%
largest funder
83%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 59% · 2021 83% · 2022 98% · 2023 81% — 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

50% of OCEAN CURE INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

54% of OCEAN CURE INC'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 $15k that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 3 states.

NY
MO
NC

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

’20
’21
’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

OCEAN CURE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−35% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve6.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like OCEAN CURE 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 North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds OCEAN CURE INC?
OCEAN CURE INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,309 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($10,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does OCEAN CURE INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $32,309 in grants to OCEAN CURE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of OCEAN CURE INC?
AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OCEAN CURE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 8 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