California Surf Lifesaving Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 330511304
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Huntington Beach, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7605744550
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Safety Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $48,753
- Expenses
- $37,760
- Assets
- $101,513
- Liabilities
- $7,948
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BILL HUMPHERYS (President)
- GUS AVILA (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- BILL HUMPHERYS (President)
- GUS AVILA (Vice President)
- JOSEPH A SHOLL (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote beach safety awareness and professional lifeguard standards through public education, training programs, exchange programs, junior lifeguard programs, competition, and other means. The ultimate goal is to prevent and reduce aquatic injuries, accidents, and death at open-water beaches in the u.s. And throughout the world.
What it reported doing in 2025
Promote beach safety awareness and professional open-water lifesaving standards. Members include lifeguards, junior lifeguards, and open water professionals from California and Arizona. Assist usla in promulgating minimum recommended lifesaving standards and certifying compliance of over 30 local, county, and state agencies. The csla support the usla with its continued collaboration with the american red cross and the ymca of the us harnessing the expertise of a wide range of professionals in identifying best practices in lifesaving and drowning prevention. Participate as delegates, make presentations, and represent the cslsa to the usla at the semi-annual board of directors meetings. Participate and promote national beach safety week in june of each year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.5%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 22.5%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.69; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -9.3% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.6% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 6 filed program accomplishments · $38K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.