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Waves for Change Foundation Ltd.

990EZ • Fiscal year 2023 • EIN 81-1814068

Mar 01, 2022 to Feb 28, 2023 • Filed on Mar 24, 2023

Organization Profilewww.waves-for-change.org
1809 First St Unit 502Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250

(646) 641-4762

Siviq Scores

Precomputed percentiles for this filing year versus similar nonprofits in the same peer cohort.

Liabilities / Assets

58th percentile

0.00x

Tied with the lowest-debt nonprofits in its peer group.

2023 filings • 501(c)3 • <$500k nonprofits • Source year 2023

Liabilities / Revenue

59th percentile

0.00x

Tied with the lowest-debt nonprofits in its peer group.

2023 filings • 501(c)3 • <$500k nonprofits • Source year 2023

Net Margin

47th percentile

1.7%

Higher net margin than 47% of similar nonprofits.

2023 filings • 501(c)3 • <$500k nonprofits • Source year 2023

Top Officer Pay

78th percentile

$0

Higher top officer pay than 78% of similar nonprofits.

Top officer pay equals 0.0% of source-year revenue.

2023 filings • 501(c)3 • <$500k nonprofits • Source year 2023

Asset Growth

8th percentile

-61%

Faster asset growth than 8% of similar nonprofits.

2023 filings • 501(c)3 • <$500k nonprofits • Annualized from 2020 to 2023

Revenue Growth

29th percentile

-15%

Faster revenue growth than 29% of similar nonprofits.

2023 filings • 501(c)3 • <$500k nonprofits • Annualized from 2020 to 2023

Balance Sheet
Liabilities / Assets58th percentile

Assets

Down

$1,474

Down $23,923 (-94%) from 2020

Net Assets

Down

$1,474

Down $23,923 (-94%) from 2020

Liabilities

Flat

$0

Flat from 2020

Revenue And Expenses
Liabilities / Revenue59th percentileNet Margin47th percentile

Revenue

Down

$25,420

Down $15,949 (-39%) from 2020

Expenses

Down

$25,000

Down $29,175 (-54%) from 2020

Net Income

Up

$420

Up $13,226 (+103%) from 2020

Historical Trend

Balance Sheet Trend

Asset Growth8th percentile

The highlighted filing sits inside the broader history for assets, liabilities, and net assets.

$40K$30K$20K$10K$0Assets 2018: $6,667Liabilities 2018: $0Net Assets 2018: $6,6672018Assets 2019: $38,203Liabilities 2019: $0Net Assets 2019: $38,2032019Assets 2020: $25,397Liabilities 2020: $0Net Assets 2020: $25,3972020Assets 2023: $1,474Liabilities 2023: $0Net Assets 2023: $1,4742023

Highlighted filing

2023

Assets$1,474
Liabilities$0
Net Assets$1,474
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Operations Trend

Revenue Growth29th percentile

Revenue, expenses, and net income across loaded years, with this filing highlighted.

$150K$100K$50K$0-$50KRevenue 2018: $60,382Expenses 2018: $65,590Net Income 2018: -$5,2082018Revenue 2019: $116,779Expenses 2019: $79,410Net Income 2019: $37,3692019Revenue 2020: $41,369Expenses 2020: $54,175Net Income 2020: -$12,8062020Revenue 2023: $25,420Expenses 2023: $25,000Net Income 2023: $4202023

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2023

Revenue$25,420
Expenses$25,000
Net Income$420
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Filing Snapshot
Filing Period
Mar 1, 2022 to Feb 28, 2023
Signed
Mar 24, 2023
Return Version
2022v5.0
Gross Receipts
$25,420
Mission and Program Overview

Mission

Waves for Change provides a child-friendly mental health service to at-risk youth living in unstable communities. Through access to safe spaces, caring mentors, and a provision of weekly Surf Therapy sessions, Waves for Change gives children skills to cope with stress, regulate behavior, build healing relationships, and make positive life choices.

Since 2009, we have worked with Universities, children and young people to develop a community based, child-friendly mental health service. Through published, participatory research, our Surf Therapy programme has been co-designed with children and youth alongside supervision from local mental health experts. Together we have created an innovative programme that is both child and youth friendly and evidence based.

Program Services

DescriptionGrantsExpenses
Waves for Change's Surf Therapy is a community-based mental health service to children and young people from underserved communities. We use the positive health benefits and rush of surfing with mind-body therapy to help young people build protective relationships, identify and regulate emotions, self-soothe and build a positive image of their future. Facilitated by young people from the same communities: 43 caring coaches 2034 Participants! We now work with almost 40 partners in 11 countries including a headline partnership with Elman Peace and UNICEF in Somalia. Our goal next year is to package our programme and training tools so that more and more partners can use them to bring a mental health focus to their youth programming. Due to the success of programmes with neurodiverse groups, we have now established and maintained relationships with other government and community-based referral partners, including Schools for Learners with Special Educational Needs, local hospitals (Department of Health), local social workers and Child and Youth Care Centres (Department of Social Development), schools for differently abled youth and those at risk of exclusion (Department of Education). As of February 2022, we now reach 250 neurodiverse and high-need participants in our service annually. These participants are referred by key government departments and community mental health role-players. This now represents 13% of our total participant population every year. We believe this work contributes to our aim to relieve the burden on the mental health system and making sure our service reaches the children that need our support the most. Produced a Learning brief which highlights our effectiveness. All 233 participants in the study endorsed extremely high rates of exposure to violence, such that 100% of participants had witnessed violence, and all but 2 participants (98.2%) had directly experienced violence. The key findings of the study shared by Van der Merwe confirmed the effectiveness of Surf Therapy and the 5 Pillar Method in key mental health prevention and promotion outcomes, listed as essential by the Departments of Health and Social Development in services and solutions to reduce the treatment gap in CAMH services. These outcomes included improved social connectedness, reduced impulsivity and more adaptive sensation seeking (such as bravery) rather than maladaptive (such as seeking danger). The study confirmed that the W4C's Surf Therapy programme is an efficacious, trauma-informed intervention for violence-exposed children and youth. W4C Surf Therapy and the underpinning 5 Pillar Method therefore presents an exciting model for scale, which could provide an essential solution for huge treatment gaps in South Africa, to ensure we respond to the crisis in CAMH, and are not found wanting again... Source: Annual Report$25,000$0
Compensation and Service Providers
Top Officer Pay78th percentile

Employees

NameTitleFull / Part TimeBaseOtherTotal
Matthew MattilaBoard MemberPT$0--
Tim ConibearFounderFT$0--
Joseph PiakerBoard Member-$0--
Filing and Contact Details

Filer

Filer Name
Waves for Change Foundation Ltd
EIN
81-1814068
Phone
6466414762
Address
1809 First St Unit 502, Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250

Signing Officer

Name
Matthew Mattila
Title
COO
Phone
6466414762
Signed
2023-03-24
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Filings

Displayed year

2023 • Form 990EZDetailed filing. Detailed filing data is available for this year.

Open filing
Assets
$1,474
Liabilities
$0
Net assets
$1,474
Revenue
$25,420
Expenses
$25,000
Net income
$420
Balance SheetOperations
YearAssetsLiabilitiesNet AssetsRevenueExpensesNet Income
2023Detailed filing. Detailed filing data is available for this year.$0.01$0.00$0.01$0.25$0.25$0.00
2020Detailed filing. Detailed filing data is available for this year.$0.25$0.00$0.25$0.41$0.54$0.13
2019Detailed filing. Detailed filing data is available for this year.$0.38$0.00$0.38$1.17$0.79$0.37
2018Detailed filing. Detailed filing data is available for this year.$0.07$0.00$0.07$0.60$0.66$0.05