South Carolina · Nonprofit
WAVES 4 WOMEN
WAVES 4 WOMEN (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,272 to it, the largest being THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ($5,600). 2 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 FY2024
- $59k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $11k
- Net assets
- $33k
What Waves 4 Women does
Mission
We provide therapuetic surf programs for women & girls.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In 2023 Waves 4 Women ran a total of 444 surf therapy clinics which served 166 women . Surf therapy clinics for women and girls incorporated surf instruction, ocean-based activities, experiential learning, and guided wellness discussions to teach life skills, (I.e. Mindfulness, growth mindset, healthy communication, and emotional regulation). These,have enabled women and girls to function more effectively in their daily lives. Surf therapy clinics also provided safe & supportive spaces for women & girls to experience community, belonging, and connection.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $55k to $33k (−39%).
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: 2019 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
51% of WAVES 4 WOMEN’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% 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.
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
Erin Jones-Lisw-Cp
Executive director
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $3k → $3k.
2 of 3 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 WAVES 4 WOMEN’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
WAVES 4 WOMEN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
51% 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 WAVES 4 WOMEN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% — 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
51% of WAVES 4 WOMEN'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 $6k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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
WAVES 4 WOMEN has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,907 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,907 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like WAVES 4 WOMEN
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 South Carolina
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WAVES 4 WOMEN: 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 WAVES 4 WOMEN?
- WAVES 4 WOMEN (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,272 to it, the largest being THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ($5,600). 2 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 WAVES 4 WOMEN have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $11,272 in grants to WAVES 4 WOMEN, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WAVES 4 WOMEN?
- THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WAVES 4 WOMEN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 3 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