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POSITIVE VIBE WARRIORS FOUNDATION

POSITIVE VIBE WARRIORS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being G HARBAUGH FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2022
$2k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$10k
Net assets
$43k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Positive Vibe Warriors Foundation does

Mission

Positive vibe warriors was founded with the mission of inspiring individuals to make a positive impact within their communities. In addition, positive vibe warriors promotes the power of positive thinking in overcoming adversities and challenges in life for all people and specifically for our coastal youth communities. Through programs such as stoke-o-rama, board drives and sponsorships of lifeguard programs, we work to achieve the goal of making the beach, coastal, and surfing communities inspired to make a positive impact in their lives.

As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Junior lifeguard donations help civic entities such as community lifeguard services to teach, educate and perform lifesaving services that save lives.

    $4,735 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $4,735.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($54k) Expenses 100 ($18k) Net assets 100 ($48k)2019 Revenue 126 ($68k) Expenses 355 ($64k) Net assets 109 ($52k)2020 Revenue 52 ($28k) Expenses 321 ($58k) Net assets 47 ($23k)2021 Revenue 133 ($72k) Expenses 186 ($33k) Net assets 129 ($61k)2022 Revenue 4 ($2k) Expenses 115 ($21k) Net assets 90 ($43k)
20182019202020212022
Revenue (4)Expenses (115)Net assets (90)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 $23k to $63k (+177%).

$48k
$52k
$23k
$63k
$43k
20182019202020212022
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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of POSITIVE VIBE WARRIORS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,233 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$36k
’18
$4k
’19
−$30k
’20
$39k
’21
−$18k
’22

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Thomas Gudauskas

CEO / president

As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'19
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of POSITIVE VIBE WARRIORS FOUNDATION’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

POSITIVE VIBE WARRIORS FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.

TN

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

POSITIVE VIBE WARRIORS FOUNDATION's revenue fell 96% between 2018 and 2022.

Operating margin−749% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−54% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,848 public benefit nonprofits under $100k, FY2022

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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 POSITIVE VIBE WARRIORS FOUNDATION?
POSITIVE VIBE WARRIORS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being G HARBAUGH FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does POSITIVE VIBE WARRIORS FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to POSITIVE VIBE WARRIORS FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of POSITIVE VIBE WARRIORS FOUNDATION?
G HARBAUGH 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 POSITIVE VIBE WARRIORS FOUNDATION 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 FY2022 (financials across 2018–2022), 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