Louisiana · Nonprofit
Surfari Pals Inc
Surfari Pals Inc (Louisiana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,857 to it, the largest being CAROLYN W & CHARLES T BEAIRD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($21,325). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $60k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $34k
- Net assets
- $103k
What Surfari Pals Inc does
Mission
Surfari Pals provides a Character Development curriculum to low-income schools and other tutoring organizations and Camp Surfari summer program.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Curriculum to Title One low-income schools in CADDO PARISH
$2,844 spent22% of program spendingCamp Surfari is a Character Development day camp for low-income children.
$2,513 spent19% of program spendingTeacher support in low-income schools that do not have PTO or similar organizations
$3,500 spent27% of program spendingTeachers to teach camp director
$4,220 spent32% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $13,077.
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.
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 $112k to $90k (−20%).
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.
100% of Surfari Pals Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Jennifer Cummings
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $7k → $3k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 Surfari Pals 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
Surfari Pals Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 94% · 2023 95% — diversifying over time.
“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.
Where its funders are
67% of Surfari Pals Inc's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $532 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
Surfari Pals Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,334 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,334 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Organizations like Surfari Pals 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 Louisiana
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Surfari Pals Inc: 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 Surfari Pals Inc?
- Surfari Pals Inc (Louisiana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,857 to it, the largest being CAROLYN W & CHARLES T BEAIRD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($21,325). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Surfari Pals Inc have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $33,857 in grants to Surfari Pals Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Surfari Pals Inc?
- CAROLYN W & CHARLES T BEAIRD FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $21,325 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Surfari Pals Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 4 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