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Surf Point Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$54k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
26
Grants FY2025
25
Organizations funded FY2024
96%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,500
Organizations funded a year
23 to 33
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$17M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 96% of the organizations Surf Point Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 97% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24
Arts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving26$54k100%
FY202425$40k96%
FY202331$39k97%
FY202233$42k100%
FY202123$31kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$205k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
IL
NY
MA
PA
RI
CA
MD

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Indigo Arts Alliance$50010%

Plus 135 recipients with no EIN on record ($204k), not named here.

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How do I get to Surf Point Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Surf Point Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Surf Point Foundation

How much does Surf Point Foundation give?
Surf Point Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $53,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 33 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Surf Point Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (100%).
Who are Surf Point Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Indigo Arts Alliance ($500).
Does Surf Point Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 96% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Surf Point Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is Surf Point Foundation based?
Surf Point Foundation is based in ME.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 136 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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