The Compassion Syndicate
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 861760258
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Virginia Beach, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7574509022
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $60,543
- Expenses
- $74,332
- Assets
- $91,119
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SCOTT D COHEN (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- SCOTT D COHEN (PRESIDENT)
- REBECCA L DEVLIN (VICE PRESIDE)
- THERESA ZANO-MCMILLAN (SECRETARY/TR)
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
Surfers healing was founded by israel and danielle paskowitz. Their son, isaiah, was diagnosed with autism at age three. Like many children with autism, he often suffered from sensory overload simple sensations could overwhelm him. The ocean was the one place where he seemed to find respite. A former competitive surfer, israel hit upon an ideawith isaiah on the front of his surfboard, and izzy steering from the back, the two spent the day surfing together. Surfing had a profound impact on isaiah. Israel and danielle decided they wanted to share this unique therapy, they began to host day camps at the beach where children with autism and their families could be exposed to a completely new experience of surfing.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- 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: -22.8%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.23; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.8% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $74K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.