· Private foundation
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.
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 $10k14 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $98k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC | $30,000 |
| MIDDLE EASTERN CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| AMAZON WATCH | $15,000 |
| HUMAN NEEDS PROJECT | $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 |
| GREENPEACE | $5,000 |
| OREGON FOOD BANK INC | $5,000 |
| WORLD FOOD PROGRAM | $5,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $5,000 |
| UNRWA USA | $5,000 |
| THE MIREMBE PROJECT | $5,000 |
| BOTTOMLESS CLOSET | $3,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC8× · 2017–2025 · $173k · revenue +98%- CHChristian Herald Association Inc7× · 2017–2025 · $66k · revenue +60%
- HNHuman Needs Project Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $55k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- RRESPONSIBILITYone grant, 2017 · $15k
- COCHURCH OF THE HOLY APOSTLESone grant, 2017 · $13k
- FOFRIENDS OF HOPE NORTH INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue 0%
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.
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…
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.
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…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
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.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
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…
Our mission is to build a movement of global citizens whose actions will help achieve our vision of a world without extreme poverty.
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.
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.
How this is measured
140 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. 140 of the 196 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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Christian Herald Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Human Needs Project Inc ↗
- Who funds RESPONSIBILITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds UTOPIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds THE MIREMBE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BOTTOMLESS CLOSET ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds REPRIEVE (US) ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds REFUGEPOINT INC ↗
- Who funds PV VOLUNTEERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE PREEMPTIVE LOVE COALITION ↗
- Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
- Who funds UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds Amazon Watch Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Bowery Mission Foundation ↗
- Who funds Still Point Theatre Collective ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HOPE NORTH INC ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE INC ↗
- Who funds ALFANAR INC US ↗
- Who funds FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Susan Sarandon Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Susan Sarandon Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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