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Filing year 2024

Save the Waves Coalition

Santa Cruz, California·EIN 36-4515216·NTEE C34 · Environment·3
Total revenue
$1.1M
Total assets
$1.4M
Total expenses
$1.5M
Reported officers
15
Mission

Save the Waves protects surf ecosystems around the world, forming coalitions with local communities and utilizing a unique combination of protected areas, stewardship, and grass-roots mobilization.

Executive compensation, broken down

Form 990 · Schedule J · 2 reported individuals · Filing year 2024

Base
$133k
Bonus
Other
Benefits
$24k
Finance Manager
officer (unspecified)
$108k
$115k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with BLS CPI-U for the West region, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 13 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Environment

Up 8%
from 2023

From $150k in 2023 to $161k in 2024.

$150k
2023
$161k
2024
In today's dollarsEst.
Up 5% in real terms$164k to $172k

Estimated with BLS CPI-U for the West region, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Highest reported compensation in each year. Volunteer board members and partial-year payouts are filtered out.
Financial trend

Revenue and expenses over time

Save the Waves Coalition reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$2.6M
$1.4M
2023
$1.1M
$1.5M
2024
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Environment executives earn in California

Comparable environment organizations in California pay their highest-earning executive a median of $88,983.

25th percentile
$37k
Median
$88,983
75th percentile
$147k
90th percentile
$221k

These are environment sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 163 organizations across 163 filings (2022 – 2023).

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