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The Mike & Susan Charity 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.

$5k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
30%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$208
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 13
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$17k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 30% of the organizations The Mike & Susan Charity Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $490 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEnvironmentCivil RightsInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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 arriving11$5k36%
FY202410$3k30%
FY20237$2k43%
FY20229$3k22%
FY20217$3k71%
FY202013$5k62%
FY201911$2k73%
FY20188$1kn/a
87% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Environment$5kArts & Culture$4kHealth$3kPhilanthropy$3kReligion$2kEducation$1kCivil Rights$1kAnimals$715Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
NJ
CA
TN
DC
HI
AL
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 16 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($12k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Mike & Susan Charity Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $3,094 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKqed Inc: $1,418 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAsian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Inc: $1,035 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc: $800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Multiple Sclerosis Society: $605 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGofundmeorg: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Research Institute: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Academy of Sciences: $314 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCupertino Chinese School: $250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRotary AIDS Project Inc: $150 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFriends of the High Line Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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About The Mike & Susan Charity Foundation

How much does The Mike & Susan Charity Foundation give?
The Mike & Susan Charity Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $5,038 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Mike & Susan Charity Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (19%), Arts & Culture (16%), Health (11%).
Who are The Mike & Susan Charity Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated ($3k), Amazing Taiwan ($2k), Kqed Inc ($1k).
Does The Mike & Susan Charity Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Mike & Susan Charity 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 The Mike & Susan Charity Foundation based?
The Mike & Susan Charity Foundation is based in CA.

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 43 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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