Surfing Florida Museum Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822852837
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Boynton Beach, FL, USA
- Phone
- 5617620458
- Rating
- 36
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- History Museums
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $43,067
- Expenses
- $34,710
- Assets
- $124,618
- Liabilities
- $70
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- THOMAS WARNKE (TRUSTEE)
- SCOTT MCCRANELS (TRUSTEE)
- FRED SALMON (TRUSTEE)
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 surfing Florida museum, inc. Is organized exclusively for educational and cultural purposes under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code. The specific purpose of the organization is to educate the public about the historical, cultural, and environmental significance of the surfing history of palm beach county and Florida through the preservation of artifacts, the maintenance of an archive, and the presentation of educational exhibits, workshops, surfing paraphernalia and publications related to surfing's impact on local and international culture.
What it reported doing in 2025
Establish a permanent museum location to exhibt collectible surfboards and surfing history of palm beach county and Florida
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.4%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.59; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.