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The Susan Sarandon Charitable 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.

$148k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

International$443kHuman Services$216kFood & Nutrition$134kCivil Rights$129kEnvironment$74kReligion$72kEducation$67kArts & Culture$43kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $98k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC$30,000
MIDDLE EASTERN CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE$15,000
HUMAN NEEDS PROJECT$15,000
AMAZON WATCH$15,000
THE BOWERY MISSION$12,500
THE CENTER FOR CONSITUTIONAL RIGHTS$10,000
PALESTINE'S CHILDREN RELIEF FUND$5,000
UTOPIA FOUNDATION$5,000
UNRWA USA$5,000
GREENPEACE$5,000
OREGON FOOD BANK INC$5,000
THE MIREMBE PROJECT$5,000
WORLD FOOD PROGRAM$5,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$5,000
BOTTOMLESS CLOSET$3,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $136k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CELEBRATION NATION: $1k → 8%HUMAN NEEDS PROJECT: $20k → 8%TIDES CENTER: $500 → 14%THE MIREMBE PROJECT: $25k → 20%HUMAN NEEDS PROJECT: $15k → 8%THE MIREMBE PROJECT: $5k → 20%FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC: $2k → 9%HUMAN NEEDS PROJECT: $15k → 8%THE RED DOOR PLACE INC: $5k → 17%THE MIREMBE PROJECT: $2k → 20%HUMAN NEEDS PROJECT: $5k → 8%THE GATHERING FOR JUSTICE INC: $1k → 17%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: $5k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: $3k → 14%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $6k → 17%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $5k → 17%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $5k → 17%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $5k → 17%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $3k → 17%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $3k → 17%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $3k → 17%STREET SOCCER USA INC: $500 → 17%UNION SETTLEMENT: $500 → 17%UNION SETTLEMENT: $500 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 70 repeat orgs$241k to everyone else

70 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 54 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
117

Total granted

$1.1M
$222k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+32%

Still filing today

77%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalAnimalsHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationCivil RightsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $173k · revenue +98%
  • CH
    Christian Herald Association Inc
    7× · 2017–2025 · $66k · revenue +56%
  • HN
    Human Needs Project Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $55k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • R
    RESPONSIBILITY
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • CO
    CHURCH OF THE HOLY APOSTLES
    one grant, 2017 · $13k
  • T
    TOGETHER1HEART
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -20%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
2
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
3
The Humane League

We exist to end the abuse of animals raised for food. this mission is executed by persuading companies and institutions to adopt animal welfare policies through negotiation and pressure campaigns, and then holding them accountable to their…

Animals
4
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
5
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
6
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
7
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
8
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
9
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
10
Global Poverty Project Inc

Our mission is to build a movement of global citizens whose actions will help achieve our vision of a world without extreme poverty.

Social Science
11
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services
12
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope for Haiti Inc and the most unlike its peers is Handover Rover. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFood Banks and PantriesImmigrant Worker SupportCommunity FoundationsAnimal Rescue and ShelterEnvironmental Conservation …Youth Sports ProgramsCommunity Arts CentersCommunity College Foundatio…School Parent OrganizationsChristian Missionary Organi…Policy Research and Advocacy
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%33%35–55yr16%17%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%2/145
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,420

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

140 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 140 of the 196 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
136/140
Grantees still filing
103/140
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FRIENDS OF HOPE NORTH — $35,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF HOPE NORTHHEIFER INTERNATIONAL — $29,300 · OtherMIDDLE EASTERN CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE — $25,700 · OtherTOGETHER1HEART FOUNDATION — $25,500 · OtherOREGON FOOD BANK — $20,000 · OtherUTOPIA FOUNDATION INC — $39,000 · OtherUTOPIA FOUNDATION INCDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC — $21,000 · Other+128 more — $361,710 · Other+128 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $173,272 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES…REFUGEPOINT INC — $20,000 · InternationalREFUGEPOINT INCUNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC — $16,300 · InternationalUNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMI…CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC — $16,000 · InternationalCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INCWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $15,000 · InternationalTHE CARTER CENTER INC — $14,500 · InternationalALFANAR INC US — $10,000 · International+18 more — $29,035 · International+18 moreHuman Needs Project Inc — $55,000 · Human ServicesHuman Needs…THE MIREMBE PROJECT — $31,500 · Human ServicesTHE MIREMBE…BOTTOMLESS CLOSET — $30,000 · Human ServicesBOTTOMLESS …FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC — $8,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF …RED DOOR PLACE INC — $5,000 · Human Services+9 more — $9,675 · Human Services+9 moreRESPONSIBILITY — $51,750 · PhilanthropyRESPONSIBI…ARTISTS FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE — $35,000 · PhilanthropyARTISTS FO…The Bowery Mission Foundation — $13,500 · PhilanthropyThe Bowery…CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $10,000 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES …FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyFOCUSING P…Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $5,000 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $1,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $41,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN C…CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS — $40,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR…REPRIEVE (US) — $22,000 · Civil RightsREPRIEVE (…REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES — $20,000 · Civil RightsREFUGEE & …+3 more — $2,360 · Civil RightsChristian Herald Association Inc — $66,000 · ReligionFeeding America — $25,600 · Food & NutritionGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC — $16,350 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INC — $8,800 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $5,244 · Food & NutritionFOOD & WATER WATCH — $2,700 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$557,210International$294,107Human Services$139,175Philanthropy$131,250Civil Rights$125,360Religion$66,000Food & Nutrition$59,194

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $173,272 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Herald Association Inc — $66,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHuman Needs Project Inc — $55,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetRESPONSIBILITY — $51,750 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $41,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUTOPIA FOUNDATION INC — $39,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetARTISTS FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE — $35,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetTHE MIREMBE PROJECT — $31,500 over 3y, 18% of budgetBOTTOMLESS CLOSET — $30,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetFeeding America — $25,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetREPRIEVE (US) — $22,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC — $21,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEPOINT INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPV VOLUNTEERS INC — $17,500 over 2y, 18% of budgetTHE PREEMPTIVE LOVE COALITION — $17,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC — $16,350 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC — $16,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC — $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $15,150 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmazon Watch Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC — $14,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bowery Mission Foundation — $13,500 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetStill Point Theatre Collective — $11,000 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetGREENPEACE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF HOPE NORTH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetALFANAR INC US — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $8,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC — $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASHER HOUSE — $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLOVE BUTTON GLOBAL MOVEMENT — $7,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC — $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $5,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $5,244 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR — $5,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIDE HAITI — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOPE FOR HAITI INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of South Florida Foundation Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRED DOOR PLACE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Tides FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…Solidaire Network IncThe Chicago Community…The New York Communit…ImpactassetsincFoundation to Promote…The Annenberg Foundat…The Ford FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…The San Francisco Fou…The Yelp Foundation
Tides FoundationCA17.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tides Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Solidaire Network Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · The New York Community Trust · Impactassetsinc · Foundation to Promote Open Society · The Annenberg Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · The Yelp Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Susan Sarandon Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
  • Immigration Counseling Service Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Hope for Haiti Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

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Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Susan Sarandon Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Susan Sarandon Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 196 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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