California · Nonprofit
Veteran Surf Alliance
Veteran Surf Alliance (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,847 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $59k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $49k
- Net assets
- $77k
What Veteran Surf Alliance does
Mission
Provide community for veterans through surfing and ocean awareness
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Running monthly surf events which includes coffee snacks lunch surf instruction with coaches water safety,volunteers including mentorship mindfullness and stretching for 400 veterans
$18,000 spent38% of program spendingRunning three annual retreats which include travel meals lodging yoga meditation surfing or snow sports for roughly 200 veterans
$15,000 spent31% of program spendingMaintaining proper equipment including surfboards wetsuits fins leashes tables chairs and a storage trailer to support veterans learning to surf for 20 to 30 veterans per event
$15,000 spent31% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $48,000.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Daniel Redmon
CEO Director of Development
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $130 → $10k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 Veteran Surf Alliance’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
Veteran Surf Alliance leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 Veteran Surf Alliance.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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
51% of Veteran Surf Alliance'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 $24k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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.
Against its field
Veteran Surf Alliance runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,277 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,277 public benefit nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Veteran Surf Alliance
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Veteran Surf Alliance: 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 Veteran Surf Alliance?
- Veteran Surf Alliance (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,847 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Veteran Surf Alliance have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $48,847 in grants to Veteran Surf Alliance, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Veteran Surf Alliance?
- THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Veteran Surf Alliance 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 FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 5 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