New York · Private foundation
Surgo Foundation US
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.
- $8.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 79%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 14
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $122M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 79% of the organizations Surgo Foundation US funded were first-time grantees, receiving 86% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $6.8M | 76% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $4.5M | 79% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $2.1M | 77% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $644k | 89% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $154k | 86% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $1.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Just Rights for Children International Inc | $1,230,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation of America | $1,000,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $1,000,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Women Donors Network | $1,000,000 | 2 | 3% |
| The Rand Corporation | $750,000 | 3 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $500,000 | 1 | 0% |
| World Health Foundation | $500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Friends of Cancer Research Inc | $395,200 | 1 | 5% |
| Mayday Medicines Inc | $350,000 | 1 | 10% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Surgo Foundation US supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
How this is measured
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About Surgo Foundation US
- How much does Surgo Foundation US give?
- Surgo Foundation US reported 20 grants totaling $8,764,576 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Surgo Foundation US fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (43%), International (25%), Civil Rights (8%).
- Who are Surgo Foundation US's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Just Rights for Children International Inc ($1.2M), The Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation of America ($1.0M), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($1.0M).
- Does Surgo Foundation US fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 79% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Surgo Foundation US 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Surgo Foundation US?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, National Philanthropic Trust, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
- Where is Surgo Foundation US based?
- Surgo Foundation US is based in NY.
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