California · Nonprofit
Sustainable Surplus Exchange Inc
Sustainable Surplus Exchange Inc (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2017
- $366k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $-48835
What Sustainable Surplus Exchange Inc does
Mission
To engage the community in environmental and economic sustainability by preventing needless waste from entering landfills through repurposing and redistributing still useful items for reuse. SSE engages businesses to donate their items and redistributes them to the community, including educational, charitable, military and start-up organizations.
As stated on its FY2017 Form 990.
Program
The Exchange Program The purpose is to create a bridge between industry and the community by fostering and facilitating the donation of surplus assets from businesses to the community, especially nonprofit and charitable organizations. SSE provides assistance to corporations, organizations, and companies donors in managing and recycling their surplus assets through a donation channel for redistribution back into the community. Recipients include, but are not limited to schools, colleges/universities, hospitals, libraries, churches, and other charitable organizations, as well as start-up entrepreneurial organizations and small businesses. The items include computers, desks, tables, chairs, office supplies, electronics printers, copiers, and equipment like microscopes, etc. SSE has supported more hundreds of local organizations through the Exchange to date. A major goal of the Exchange Program is to help the community to be more green and sustainable by reducing the carbon footprint of waste, while diverting solid waste and still useful items from the landfills. SSE diverted over 71,5907 pounds of waste from the landfill and recycled 5,500 pounds of electronic waste e-waste, heavy…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Sustainable Surplus Exchange Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of Sustainable Surplus Exchange Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like Sustainable Surplus Exchange Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sustainable Surplus Exchange Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Sustainable Surplus Exchange Inc?
- Sustainable Surplus Exchange Inc (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Sustainable Surplus Exchange Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $20,000 in grants to Sustainable Surplus Exchange Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Sustainable Surplus Exchange Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sustainable Surplus Exchange Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing