Hawaii · Nonprofit
SURF FOR SPECIAL NEEDS
SURF FOR SPECIAL NEEDS (Hawaii) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being MAKING A DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SURF FOR SPECIAL NEEDS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,648 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,648 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
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.
- North Kohala Community Resource Centerlocal
- Boardriders Foundationportfolio match
- Bay Area Sportsmans Association Incportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of SURF FOR SPECIAL NEEDS’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
SURF FOR SPECIAL NEEDS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 1 state in all.
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.
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.
- North Kohala Community Resource CenterlocalHI · funds 38 organizations near you
- Boardriders Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bay Area Sportsmans Association Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tortugas Care Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Danny Kwock Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Palmer Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Surfing's Evolution & Preservation Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Edward M & Henrietta M Knabusch Charitable Trust 2portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Move Unitedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kathryn O'Connor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Overlake Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wood Family Memorial Trustportfolio 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.
Organizations like SURF FOR SPECIAL NEEDS
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 Hawaii
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SURF FOR SPECIAL NEEDS: 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 SURF FOR SPECIAL NEEDS?
- SURF FOR SPECIAL NEEDS (Hawaii) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being MAKING A DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SURF FOR SPECIAL NEEDS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,500 in grants to SURF FOR SPECIAL NEEDS.
- Who is the largest funder of SURF FOR SPECIAL NEEDS?
- MAKING A DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SURF FOR SPECIAL NEEDS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Hawaii. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2022–2022), and the filings of 1funders 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