California · Nonprofit
WAVE ENTERPRISES INC
WAVE ENTERPRISES INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being Wave Property Inc ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
WAVE ENTERPRISES INC's revenue fell 870% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,609 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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.
- California Restaurant Foundation Inclocal
- Norwich Universityportfolio match
- The Gertrude E Skelly Charitable Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
0% of WAVE ENTERPRISES INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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.
- California Restaurant Foundation InclocalCA · funds 169 organizations near you
- Norwich Universityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gertrude E Skelly Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cal Poly Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Rose Hills FoundationlocalCA · funds 476 organizations near you
- Charles Koch Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southern Company Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Vecellio Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Carnegie Mellon Universityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Anita Borg Institute for Technologyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Holder Construction Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Horticultural Research Institute Incportfolio 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 WAVE ENTERPRISES INC
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
2% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 18 related entities
- Pepperdine University · exempt
- Wave Services Inc · exempt
- Pepperdine University (Usa) in London · exempt
- Pepperdine University Rwanda Cbc · exempt
- Pepperdine Ghana Lgb · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WAVE ENTERPRISES 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.
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 WAVE ENTERPRISES INC?
- WAVE ENTERPRISES INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being Wave Property Inc ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WAVE ENTERPRISES INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to WAVE ENTERPRISES INC.
- Who is the largest funder of WAVE ENTERPRISES INC?
- Wave Property Inc is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WAVE ENTERPRISES INC 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 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing