Minnesota · Private foundation
Surly Gives a Damn
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $9k
- Granted FY2023
- 3
- Grants FY2023
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2023
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 25
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 1
- Total assets, FY2023
- $4k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Surly Gives a Damn funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 3 | $9k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $15k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $25k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $21k | 44% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $31k | 60% |
| FY2017 | 25 | $86k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Arms of Minnesota | $26,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Bridging Inc | $21,395 | 5 | 0% |
| Community Emergency Assistance Programs Inc | $16,502 | 2 | 0% |
| Fraser | $14,097 | 2 | 0% |
| Northside Achievement Zone | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mississippi Park Connection | $9,544 | 3 | 0% |
| Matter | $5,650 | 1 | n/a |
| Minnesota Off Road Cyclists-Morc | $5,228 | 1 | n/a |
| Food Group Minnesota Inc The | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 36 grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($21k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Surly Gives a Damn 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.
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How this is measured
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About Surly Gives a Damn
- How much does Surly Gives a Damn give?
- Surly Gives a Damn reported 3 grants totaling $8,500 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Surly Gives a Damn fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (22%), Housing & Shelter (16%), Health (11%).
- Who are Surly Gives a Damn's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Open Arms of Minnesota ($26k), Bridging Inc ($21k), Community Emergency Assistance Programs Inc ($17k).
- Does Surly Gives a Damn fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Surly Gives a Damn accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Surly Gives a Damn?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation, Pohlad Family Foundation.
- Where is Surly Gives a Damn based?
- Surly Gives a Damn is based in MN.
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