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A WALK ON WATER INC

EIN 46-1174744 MALIBU, CA

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Revenue 2024
$701,258
Expenses 2024
$663,753

Program services were 95.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
N67
Classification
1200
Street
23823 MALIBU RD STE 50 PMB 376

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 · 2024

Mission

THE PURPOSE OF THIS ORGANIZATION IS TO PROVIDE WATER THERAPY THROUGH GUIDED SURF INSTRUCTIONS TO SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN. SURFING IS USED AS A TOOL TO GAIN SELF-CONFIDENCE SKILLS AND PROMOTE THE THERAPEUTIC BENEFITS OF THE SPORT'S POSITIVE EFFECTS.

  • A Walk On Water ("AWOW") provides surf therapy to children with special needs or disabilities. The oceans transformative properties empower our participants, who enjoy a much-deserved day of laughter, love, and acceptance alongside their families. For one perfect, restorative day at the beach, there are no labels. Everyone is an Athlete. AWOW Surf Therapy is more than just surfing: the entire family unit is treated to a well-deserved day of respite, complete with healthy food and drink, live music, art, yoga, and more.

    Expenses $634,910

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Steven Lippman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Dale Rhoades

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Jeff Marsh

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Matthew Spelich

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Jason Wolk

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Jack Turturici Jr

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Agatha Wallen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Ari Markow

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $701,258
    Expenses
    $663,753
    Contributions
    $648,347
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $481,162
    Expenses
    $440,938
    Contributions
    $456,389
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $412,675
    Expenses
    $399,738
    Contributions
    $408,165
    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
    $702,368
    Expenses
    $332,234
    Assets (EOY)
    $995,739

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $265,711
    Expenses
    $300,083
    Assets (EOY)
    $650,624

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $775,486
    Expenses
    $635,803
    Assets (EOY)
    $659,977

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $672,578
    Expenses
    $480,549
    Assets (EOY)
    $520,294

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $410,570
    Expenses
    $203,741
    Assets (EOY)
    $326,982

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $212,929
    Expenses
    $116,442
    Assets (EOY)
    $120,153

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2014

Tax period
1 January 2014 to 31 December 2014
Principal officer
Not named on the postcard
Mailing address
501 South Reino Road Ste 285Newbury Park CA 91320
Website
www.awalkonwater.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

  • RITEWAY CHARITY SERVICES INC.

    $0 raised

    2024 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $0 to charity

  • RITEWAY CHARITY SERVICES INC.

    $450 raised

    2019 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $145 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.