Virginia · Private foundation
Surtman Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $287k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $102,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 26
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Surtman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k 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 | 22 | $287k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $220k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $56k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $125k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $146k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $221k | 52% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $70k | 29% |
| FY2017 | 20 | $57k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberty Baptist Church | $152,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Destiny Family Center | $95,651 | 8 | n/a |
| Peninsula Rescue Mission Inc | $74,500 | 4 | 3% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $61,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Motorcycle Missionary | $55,750 | 3 | 49% |
| Recovery Alive Inc | $29,500 | 1 | 4% |
| Alameda Emergency Food DBA Alameda Food Bank | $27,000 | 3 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Davidson Community Players | $20,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Island Dog Rescue | $14,100 | 2 | 4% |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($484k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Surtman Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
About Surtman Foundation
- How much does Surtman Foundation give?
- Surtman Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $286,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Surtman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (50%), Human Services (10%), Housing & Shelter (6%).
- Who are Surtman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Liberty Baptist Church ($153k), Destiny Family Center ($96k), Peninsula Rescue Mission Inc ($75k).
- Does Surtman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Surtman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Surtman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Carolinas, Duke Energy Foundation, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
- Where is Surtman Foundation based?
- Surtman Foundation is based in VA.
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