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OPERATION SURF

EIN 26-3661313 SN LUIS OBISP, CA

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Revenue 2025
$703,132
Expenses 2025
$727,712

Program services were 81.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
E99
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 1581

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

OPERATION SURF DEVELOPS COMMUNITY PROGRAMS WHICH UTILIZE SURFING, ALONG WITH OTHER ACTIVITIES, TO HELP INDIVIDUALS CHANGE THEIR PERSPECTIVE AND OVERCOME THEIR PARTICULAR LIFE'S CHALLENGES. WE VALUE AN INDIVIDUAL'S RIGHT TO LEAD A HAPPY, PRODUCTIVE LIFE. WE ARE DEDICATED TO HELPING THEM BY PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES TO REACH THEIR POTENTIAL, ACCEPT THEIR PAST AND BREAKTHROUGH THEIR PERCEIVED LIMITATIONS THROUGH OUR PROGRAMS. AMAZING SURF ADVENTURES PROVIDES THE OPPORTUNITY AND POSSIBILITY FOR A POSITIVE CHANGE IN OUR COMMUNITY BY:1. OFFERING ALTERNATIVE AND HEALTHY EDUCATIONAL AND RECREATIONAL OPTIONS FOR THOSE WITH DISABILITIES AND DISENFRANCHISEMENTS;2. PROVIDING INFORMATION ON ALTERNATIVE AND HEALTHY COMMUNITY EDUCATIONAL AND RECREATIONAL OPTIONS TO PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ENTITIES;3. PROVIDING ONGOING ADVICE, RECOMMENDATIONS AND SUPPORT WITH REGARDS TO ALTERNATIVE AND HEALTHY EDUCATIONAL AND RECREATIONAL OPTIONS FOR THE COMMUNITY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

PROVIDES ADAPTIVE SURFING TO WOUNDED MILITARY AND UNDER-SERVED POPULATIONS.

  • OPERATION SURF DIRECTLY BENEFITS WOUNDED AND DISABLED ACTIVE DUTY MILITARY AND VETERANS ALONG WITH THEIR SPOUSES BY PROVIDING THEM WITH ALTERNATIVE RECREATIONAL OPTIONS (SURFING).

    Expenses $594,555

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • David Blair

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Brian Waters

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Carla Kiernan

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Charlie Palmer

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Jamie Weissenborn

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Steven Bakota

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $703,132
    Expenses
    $727,712
    Contributions
    $647,961
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $796,778
    Expenses
    $837,761
    Contributions
    $767,038
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $773,690
    Expenses
    $692,137
    Contributions
    $775,967
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $592,485
    Expenses
    $623,306
    Contributions
    $531,366
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $555,596
    Expenses
    $618,843
    Assets (EOY)
    $225,148

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $377,594
    Expenses
    $429,006
    Assets (EOY)
    $328,104

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $543,269
    Expenses
    $494,172
    Assets (EOY)
    $261,397

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $530,408
    Expenses
    $449,038
    Assets (EOY)
    $210,612

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $265,818
    Expenses
    $244,148
    Assets (EOY)
    $125,822

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $305,053
    Expenses
    $270,643
    Assets (EOY)
    $104,152

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $246,222
    Expenses
    $200,199
    Assets (EOY)
    $69,742

  • 2013 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $113,006
    Expenses
    $113,037
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,907

  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $118,506
    Expenses
    $108,719
    Assets (EOY)
    $23,750

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.