Operation Surf

Analysis

Operation Surf is a registered charity in United States, based in SN Luis Obisp, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2010, 16 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Operation Surf reported income of $774k and spending of $692k, spending 89% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $670k to $774k (+16%), an average of +3.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 47%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Operation Surf sits at the 61st percentile: it is larger than about 61% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 76th percentile, and in the 77th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Serenity Safe-Haven Outpatient Services ($774k), Horizon Pregnancy Center ($774k) and Magnolia Coastlands Area Health Education Center ($774k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $131k (19% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $276k against liabilities of $626, net assets of $276k. It reported 6 employees.