California · Nonprofit
SURFING HERITAGE AND CULTURE CENTER
SURFING HERITAGE AND CULTURE CENTER (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,341,439 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($11,146,300). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $860k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $5.7M
What Surfing Heritage and Culture Center does
Mission
The surfing heritage foundation is dedicated to preserving the history of surfing. We collect, preserve, and document surf craft, print, photos, oral histories, art, cinematography, and surfing memorabilia for the appreciation and education of current and future generations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Surfing Heritage and Culture Center (shacc) offers hosted and individual tours of its extensive collection, featuring approximately 500 historic surfboards and 100,000 photographs. Shacc boasts a total collection of around 500,000 objects. In 2024 alone, the website has attracted over 24,000 visits, with total visits surpassing 200,000. Shacc is active on social media, with over 23,000 instagram followers, 24,000 facebook followers. In addition to welcoming approximately 2,500 visitors annually, shacc has loaned items from its archive to enhance other museum exhibits. The organization is also developing educational curricula for schools in california and beyond. Recently, shacc curated an exhibit of historic world championship and olympic medalist surfboards, and the latest exhibit is a tribute to photographer, author, environmentalist, imax film producer, and surf filmmaker greg macgillivray. Both exhibits are now showcased at the center.
$575,417 spent$13,400 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $575,417.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $4.5M to $6.1M (+35%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 2% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of SURFING HERITAGE AND CULTURE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Michael Izzi
Fmr exec dir
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $52k → $15k.
2 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 SURFING HERITAGE AND CULTURE CENTER’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
SURFING HERITAGE AND CULTURE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 SURFING HERITAGE AND CULTURE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 89% · 2019 58% · 2020 61% · 2021 50% · 2022 64% · 2023 67% — 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.
How long its funders stay
44% of SURFING HERITAGE AND CULTURE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% give in more than one year at all.
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
98% of SURFING HERITAGE AND CULTURE CENTER'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 $195k that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
SURFING HERITAGE AND CULTURE CENTER holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SURFING HERITAGE AND CULTURE CENTER
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
45%
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 SURFING HERITAGE AND CULTURE CENTER: 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 SURFING HERITAGE AND CULTURE CENTER?
- SURFING HERITAGE AND CULTURE CENTER (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,341,439 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($11,146,300). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SURFING HERITAGE AND CULTURE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $11,341,439 in grants to SURFING HERITAGE AND CULTURE CENTER, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SURFING HERITAGE AND CULTURE CENTER?
- ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $11,146,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SURFING HERITAGE AND CULTURE CENTER 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 14 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing