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SURFRIDER FOUNDATION

EIN 95-3941826 SAN CLEMENTE, CA

Revenue 2024
$14,490,016
Expenses 2024
$14,543,905

Program services were 80.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C600
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 73550

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).

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.

  • SARAH LIM

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ADRIANA ESTRADA

    CHAIR (THRU 03/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TOM GARCIA

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RYAN CROSBY

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DENISE LEONHARD

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • OLIVIA ANGUS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ANUPA ASOKAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CHRISTINA BLAUSTEIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TED CHIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TERESA CHRISTOPHER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • AIRRION COPELAND

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ANTONETTE CORDERO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JAD DAYEH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ROBBY FRASER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CHRIS JACOBSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MATT JARVIS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CLIFF KAPONO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ED LUNSFORD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SHELBY MEADE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PENN NEWHARD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • STEVE SHIPSEY

    DIRECTOR (THRU 06/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CHAD NELSEN

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $269,662
    From this org
    $251,790
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,872
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $251,790
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,036
    Nontaxable benefits
    $12,836
    Filer's total
    $269,662

  • MICHELLE KREMER

    COO

    Total calculated
    $226,869
    From this org
    $209,275
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,594
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $209,275
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $2,456
    Nontaxable benefits
    $15,138
    Filer's total
    $226,869

  • EDUARDO ANAYA

    SR. DIR. OF MARKETING & COMMUNICATION

    Total calculated
    $188,432
    From this org
    $172,028
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,404
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $172,028
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $3,442
    Nontaxable benefits
    $12,962
    Filer's total
    $188,432

  • SPENCER CAMPBELL

    SR. DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

    Total calculated
    $175,148
    From this org
    $160,783
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,365
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $160,783
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $3,362
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,003
    Filer's total
    $175,148

The first 25 listed. 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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $14,490,016
    Expenses
    $14,543,905
    Contributions
    $12,667,899
    Grants paid
    $34,290
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $14,309,868
    Expenses
    $13,492,656
    Contributions
    $12,255,236
    Grants paid
    $92,019
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $12,280,357
    Expenses
    $10,864,451
    Contributions
    $10,223,289
    Grants paid
    $11,293

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

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $13,558,022
    Expenses
    $8,859,638
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,564,951

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $12,597,004
    Expenses
    $8,303,339
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,752,426

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $11,457,073
    Expenses
    $7,748,486
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,368,081

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,618,975
    Expenses
    $7,701,010
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,905,831

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,009,736
    Expenses
    $6,948,332
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,162,469

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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.

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.

  • CREATIVE GENIUS LLC

    $1,774,391 in sales

    2024 Commercial Coventurer

    $133,860 to charity

  • CAR DONATIONS FOR MY CAUSE LLC

    $145 raised

    2024 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $116 to charity

  • CREATIVE GENIUS LLC

    $1,128,699 in sales

    2023 Commercial Coventurer

    $80,272 to charity

  • CREATIVE GENIUS LLC

    $1,851,741 in sales

    2022 Commercial Coventurer

    $128,594 to charity

  • CREATIVE GENIUS LLC

    $1,462,443 in sales

    2022 Commercial Coventurer

    $115,604 to charity

  • CAR DONATIONS FOR MY CAUSE LLC

    $0 raised

    2022 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $0 to charity

  • CAR DONATIONS FOR MY CAUSE LLC

    $480 raised

    2021 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $384 to charity

  • CREATIVE GENIUS LLC

    $274,946 in sales

    2020 Commercial Coventurer

    $19,790 to charity

  • CAR DONATIONS FOR MY CAUSE LLC

    $1,695 raised

    2020 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $1,695 to charity

  • TELEFUND INC.

    $7,900 raised

    2019 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$7,645 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 10 September 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 IRS Business Master File ingested 5 October 2026, which is when the registration facts above were last refreshed for every organization. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.