Coast 2 Coast Movement Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271617474
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6192983750
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $51,642
- Expenses
- $64,744
- Assets
- $74,239
- Liabilities
- $68
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EMILY ANNE KOCH (PRESIDENT)
- ORIANA POINDEXTER (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- EMILY ANNE KOCH (PRESIDENT)
- ORIANA POINDEXTER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- NICOLAS LANDA TAMI (SECRETARY/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
The primary purpose of beyond the surface international (btsi) is to educate and empower youth in small-scale fishing villages. Btsi is an adjunct educational institution with a mission to provide local educators with innovative positive youth development tools, training, and safe- spaces for children in coastal communities that are threatened by climate change, global warming, and sea level rise. The goal is to support the young people in these communities while they learn that their small-scale fishing communities are vitally important in the context of food security, livelihoods, natural-cultural heritage, and climate resilience. This is done through workshops with local educators involving art projects, storytelling, surfing, mindfulness training and other activities that motivate youth to actively engage themselves and their communities for the betterment of their socio-economic relationships and the marine environment so that natural resources are protected and enhanced.
What it reported doing in 2025
The small-scale fisheries guidelines curriculum - btsi developed the small-scale fisheries guidelines curriculum working with the sponsorship and support of the united nations food and agriculture organization (fao), the lighthouse foundation, and the nature conservancy. Btsi created this 538-page curriculum in consultation with local educators to implement the faos voluntary guidelines for securing sustainable small-scale fisheries in the context of food security and poverty eradication during 2022, the international year of artisanal fisheries and aquaculture. Btsi worked directly and in-person with over 2,300 teachers and students in peru and virtually in nigeria, madagascar and india to develop a curriculum as a learning framework for rural educators and young learners to explore, imagine, and put into action the fao guidelines in their unique fishing communities. In peru, btsi conducted in-person workshops in the fishing communities along the northern coast in the communities of lobitos, el nuno, and tumbes and in madagascar, nigeria, and india. Aa team of scientists, educators, and artists worked with local teachers to formulate lesson plans. Btsi also facilitated teacher training by pitching curriculum ideas and receiving teacher feedback. The result was the creation of three stop-motion animations, two outdoor murals, ten photography series and several artistic productions such as cyanotype prints, protest signs, letters to policy makers, and community heritage maps. Btsi also organized workshops for adult learners such as women involved in fish-processing work and local stakeholders including local municipality government officials.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 61% for direct work, and 39% for grants.
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: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.4%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 76.9%; rating input score 77
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -25.4%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.15; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -21.3% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -17.4% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.1% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 96.4% of revenue deployed · 76.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $50K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.