· Private foundation
Surtman Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $53k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $203k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIBERTY LIVE CHURCH | $102,500 |
| BROKEN CHAINS MINISTRY | $50,000 |
| RECOVERY ALIVE | $50,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $38,000 |
| LIBERTY BAPTIST CHURCH | $15,250 |
| EMOTIONAL RECOVERY CLINIC | $6,150 |
| DESTINY FAMILY CENTER | $5,000 |
| CALVARY ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| RAICES | $2,500 |
| DAVIDSON COMMUNITY PLAYERS | $2,500 |
| PENINSULA RESCUE MISSION | $2,000 |
| GREEN ROOM COMMUNITY THEATRE | $1,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| VETERANS YOGA PROJECT | $1,000 |
| ISLE OF WRIGHT RESCUE SQUAD | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PRPENINSULA RESCUE MISSION INC4× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +50%
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $62k · revenue +65%- AEAlameda Emergency Food DBA Alameda Food Bank3× · 2017–2021 · $27k · revenue +143%
Funded once
- RARECOVERY ALIVE INCone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue 0%
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -21%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $10k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
USA for UNHCR protects and supports refugees by mobilizing resources, elevating awareness, and driving action through a network of engaged supporters.
Ummah relief international is a dedicated grassroots relief organization providing humanitarian services to bring help and hope to thousands of victims of natural and human disasters with quick and targeted action.
To resource, train, and mobilize volunteers, churches,& other organizations to respond to disasters in the united states & world-wide
Relief international (ri) partners with communities impacted by conflict, climate change, and disaster to save lives, build greater resilience, and promote long-term health and wellbeing of people in the communities that we serve. relief…
International relief teams is a non-profit international relief and development organization dedicated to allieviating human suffering by providing critical assistance to victims of disaster, profound poverty and neglect worldwide
To enhance the protection of rights of the displaced worldwide by the provision of advice and assistance on the application of international law, the conducting of research on the interpretation and application of international law and the…
Refugepoint partners with refugees to access life-changing solutions and transforms how the world supports them. refugepoint seeks to expand access to lasting solutions for refugees, especially those facing vulnerabilities who are…
Serving the displaced in the middle east.
U.s. digital response is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that helps governments, nonprofits, and public entities respond quickly to critical public needs. the organization serves the public by leveraging a network of pro bono…
During the past year we provided humanitarian aid to more than 50,000 people in communities across Ukraine. We provided food, medicine, medical care, programs for children, lodging, counseling and much more. These efforts were carried out…
URF is a 501(c)(30 nonprofit based in California. We receive funds through private donations and spend them on several programs, providing aid, rescue, and relief for Ukrainian war victims in the form of cash donations for food, shelter,…
To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.
How this is measured
36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 71 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PENINSULA RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOTORCYCLE MISSIONARY ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Alameda Emergency Food DBA Alameda Food Bank ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds Davidson Community Players ↗
- Who funds ISLAND DOG RESCUE ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds TRIPLE TREE AERODROME INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREEN ROOM COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ISLE OF WIGHT CHRISTIAN OUTREACH PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EMOTIONAL RECOVERY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY & RESTORATION MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds VETERANS YOGA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds Lake Merritt Institute ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE BAY AREA ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Surtman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Surtman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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