Funding search · EIN 136108163 · New York, NY

Surdna Foundation

Name: Surdna Foundation grants, 2021–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

1,489
grants reported: $215.7M
total given: 2021–2024
filing years: $75,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2021–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

Racial and economic justice organizing in cities
Artist-led cultural production and community arts infrastructure
Inclusive economies: worker power, wages, small business ownership
Climate and environmental justice tied to frontline communities
Two Andrus family institutions in Westchester County, NY
Intermediaries and fiscal sponsors regranting to grassroots groups

Typical grant

Median grant is $75,000, with the middle half between $13,500 and $180,000. Checks of $200,000 to $500,000 go to national policy shops, artist-support networks, and regranting intermediaries; the small end covers individual community groups and one-time convenings. The two Andrus memorial institutions in Westchester take roughly $4 million each per year, a separate stream from the rest, and many other grantees appear repeatedly across the 2021-2024 window.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

“GENERAL SUPPORT”
“JUSTICE”
“EQUITY”
“CULTURAL”
“COMMUNITY”

Positioning adjacent work

Ask for general operating support, not project funds. Nearly every grant in the record is unrestricted.
Connect research to their inclusive economies line: worker power, wage policy, or business ownership by people of color.
Size a first ask at $75,000 to $200,000. Six-figure-plus checks go to established national intermediaries.
If university-based, note the Rutgers Foundation and SSRC precedents and frame work as serving organizers, not academia.

Worth knowing: Two Westchester County institutions carrying the Andrus family name absorb about $8 million a year, so the competitive pool is smaller than the headline total suggests. Beyond that, giving concentrates in New York, the Bay Area, and DC, flows heavily through fiscal sponsors like New Venture Fund, Tides, and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, and repeats with the same grantees year over year, which signals relationship-driven selection rather than open competition.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

New Venture Fund3 grants · $6.3M
John E Andrus Memorial3 grants · $5.4M
Julia Dyckman Andrus Memorial3 grants · $5.4M
Julia Dyckman Andrus Memorial1 grant · $4.1M
John E Andrus Memorial1 grant · $4.0M
Living Cities3 grants · $2.2M
Ndn Collective3 grants · $2.1M
Policylink3 grants · $2.0M
Project South3 grants · $1.9M
Neighborhood Funders Group3 grants · $1.9M

Giving over time

$45.6M

2021

$54.7M

2022

$58.9M

2023

$56.5M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 1,489 grants.

$4.1M
Julia Dyckman Andrus Memorial · Yonkers, NY · 2024
General support
$4.0M
John E Andrus Memorial · Hastingsonhudson, NY · 2024
General support
$3.0M
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
General Support
$2.3M
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
General Support
$2.0M
John E Andrus Memorial · Hastingsonhudson, NY · 2022
General Support
$2.0M
Julia Dyckman Andrus Memorial · Yonkers, NY · 2022
General Support
$2.0M
John E Andrus Memorial · Hastingsonhudson, NY · 2023
General Support
$2.0M
Julia Dyckman Andrus Memorial · Yonkers, NY · 2023
General Support
$1.4M
John E Andrus Memorial · Hastingsonhudson, NY · 2021
General Support
$1.4M
Julia Dyckman Andrus Memorial · Yonkers, NY · 2021
General Support
$1.4M
North Star Fund · New York, NY · 2022
General Support
$1.4M
Project South · Atlanta, GA · 2022
General Support
$1.4M
Accelerate 500-Black Gravity · Washington, DC · 2022
General Support
$1.2M
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation · Washington, DC · 2021
General Support
$1.1M
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2021
General Support
$1.0M
Center for Cultural Innovation · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
General Support
$1.0M
Rsf Social Finance · San Francisco, CA · 2022
General Support
$959,000
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$955,000
Common Counsel Foundation · Oakland, CA · 2021
General Support
$950,000
Neighborhood Funders Group · Oakland, CA · 2023
General Support
$905,000
Living Cities · New York, NY · 2023
General Support
$825,000
One Fair Wage · Cambridge, MA · 2023
General Support
$800,000
Groundswell Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2022
General Support
$800,000
Policylink · Oakland, CA · 2021
General Support
$775,000
Ndn Collective · Rapid City, SD · 2024
General support
$775,000
Ndn Collective · Rapid City, SD · 2023
General Support
$775,000
Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2023
General Support
$750,005
Possibility Labs · San Francisco, CA · 2022
General Support
$750,000
Neighborhood Funders Group · San Francisco, CA · 2024
General support
$750,000
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs · Calabasas, CA · 2024
General support
$725,000
Ndn Collective · Rapid City, SD · 2021
General Support
$700,000
Powerswitch Action · Oakland, CA · 2023
General Support
$675,000
Jobs With Justice Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
General Support
$675,000
Allied Media Projects · Detroit, MI · 2021
General Support
$665,000
Living Cities · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$665,000
Living Cities · New York, NY · 2021
General Support
$650,500
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation - Buildus · Washington, DC · 2023
General Support
$650,000
Common Counsel Foundation · Oakland, CA · 2023
General Support
$647,000
Asian Americans Advancing Justice · Norcross, GA · 2023
General Support
$630,000
Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2022
General Support
$625,500
Highlander Research & Education Center · New Market, TN · 2021
General Support
$625,000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$625,000
Ndn Collective · Rapid City, SD · 2022
General Support
$605,000
Otv Open Television · Chicago, IL · 2024
General support
$600,652
Fractured Atlas Productions · New York, NY · 2022
General Support
$600,000
Highlander Research & Education Center · New Market, TN · 2022
General Support
$600,000
Living Cities · New York, NY · 2022
General Support
$600,000
Policylink · Oakland, CA · 2022
General Support
$577,000
Tides Center - Dream Defenders · San Francisco, CA · 2021
General Support
$575,000
East Bay Community Foundation · Oakland, CA · 2024
General support
$575,000
Race Forward · New York, NY · 2022
General Support
$575,000
Race Forward · New York, NY · 2021
General Support
$553,750
Policylink · Oakland, CA · 2023
General Support
$550,000
Otv Open Television · Chicago, IL · 2023
General Support
$550,000
Common Counsel Foundcation-Movement for Black Live · Oakland, CA · 2022
General Support
$550,000
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs-Funders for · Calabasas, CA · 2022
General Support
$543,000
Solidaire Network · Oakland, CA · 2021
General Support
$520,500
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2023
General Support
$513,000
East Bay Community Foundation · Oakland, CA · 2022
General Support
$510,000
East Bay Community Foundation · Oakland, CA · 2021
General Support
$500,000
Sustainable Economies Law Center · Oakland, CA · 2024
General support
$500,000
Fractured Atlas Productions · New York, NY · 2023
General Support
$500,000
Jobs To Move America · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
General Support
$500,000
Sustainable Economies Law Center · Oakland, CA · 2023
General Support
$500,000
National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures ( · San Antonio, TX · 2022
General Support
$500,000
Social Science Research Council · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
General Support
$500,000
Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Mountain View, CA · 2021
General Support
$500,000
The Center for Cultural Power · Oakland, CA · 2021
General Support
$492,596
National Performance Network · New Orleans, LA · 2024
General support
$480,000
Transforming Power Fund · Detroit, MI · 2023
General Support
$480,000
Threewalls · Chicago, IL · 2022
General Support
$477,722
Black Lily Inc (Incl Amendment) · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
General Support
$475,000
Alternate Roots · Atlanta, GA · 2024
General support
$475,000
Hester Street · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$475,000
Mississippi Center for Cultural Production · Utica, MS · 2024
General support
$475,000
National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures · San Antonio, TX · 2024
General support
$475,000
Threewalls · Chicago, IL · 2024
General support
$475,000
Alternate Roots · Atlanta, GA · 2023
General Support
$475,000
East Bay Community Foundation · Oakland, CA · 2023
General Support
$475,000
Hester Street · New York, NY · 2023
General Support
$475,000
National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures · San Antonio, TX · 2023
General Support
$475,000
National Performance Network · New Orleans, LA · 2023
General Support
$475,000
Threewalls · Chicago, IL · 2023
General Support
$475,000
Alternate Roots · Atlanta, GA · 2022
General Support
$475,000
Hester Street · New York, NY · 2022
General Support
$475,000
National Performance Network · New Orleans, LA · 2022
General Support
$475,000
Transforming Power Fund · Detroit, MI · 2022
General Support
$450,000
Economic Policy Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$450,000
Metropolitan Economic Development Association · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
General support
$450,000
Free Press · Washington, DC · 2022
General Support
$450,000
Neighborhood Funders Group · Oakland, CA · 2022
General Support
$450,000
Neighborhood Funders Group · Oakland, CA · 2021
General Support
$440,000
Latino Business Action Network · San Jose, CA · 2023
General Support
$435,000
Institute for Nonprofit Practice · Boston, MA · 2023
General Support
$430,000
Common Future · Oakland, WA · 2021
General Support
$425,000
Chinese Progressive Association · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General Support
$425,000
Highlander Research & Education Center · New Market, TN · 2023
General Support
$425,000
Race Forward · New York, NY · 2023
General Support
$425,000
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs · Calabasas, CA · 2023
General Support
$425,000
Grassroots Global Justice · Washington, MD · 2021
General Support

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.