Surdna Foundation Inc Att Marc de Venoge
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About Surdna Foundation Inc Att Marc de Venoge
Fostering sustainable communities in the United States — communities guided by principles of social justice and distinguished by healthy environments, inclusive economies, and thriving cultures.
Focus Areas
Racial justice / social justiceEnvironmental & climate justiceEconomic inclusion and wealth creationArts, culture, and artists of colorCommunity developmentImpact investing
Funding Style
unrestricted supportgeneral operating supportflexible/core capacity fundingnon-project-specific funding
Topics
general organizational support
About Surdna Foundation Inc Att Marc de Venoge
Surdna Foundation Inc Att Marc De Venoge uses strategic grantmaking and program-related investments to back work on racial justice, environmental and climate justice, economic inclusion, and arts and culture. A defining feature of its portfolio is support for community-based and field-building intermediaries, including repeat general-support grants to New Venture Fund in Washington, DC and to the Andrus family entities in New York. The foundation’s active programs are organized around Inclusive Economies, Sustainable Environments, Thriving Cultures, and the Andrus Family Fund, each aligned with social justice and community power. Recent awards also point to a strong interest in flexible funding: many of the largest grants in the recent list are marked general support rather than project-specific awards. The foundation gives at national scale across the United States, and its portfolio includes organizations working on equitable economic development, land use and climate inequity, and racial justice through arts and culture. Its grantmaking pattern also shows a mix of national intermediaries and place-based organizations, with recipients ranging from Washington, DC and New York to Oakland, San Francisco, Atlanta, and Rapid City.
What Surdna Foundation Inc Att Marc de Venoge Funds
In inclusive economic work, the foundation gave $1,370,600 to Accelerate 500-Black Gravity in Washington, DC for general support, and $825,000 to One Fair Wage Inc in Cambridge, MA for general support. Those awards sit alongside the Inclusive Economies program’s focus on business start-up and growth and equitable economic development. In environmental and climate justice, Surdna Foundation Inc Att Marc De Venoge awarded $1,375,000 to Project South in Atlanta, GA for general support and $955,000 to Common Counsel Foundation in Oakland, CA for general support, matching the Sustainable Environments program’s emphasis on land use and infrastructure decision-making. In arts and culture, the foundation gave $1,030,000 to Center for Cultural Innovation in Los Angeles, CA for general support, and its Thriving Cultures program links artists, researchers, and cultural critics to racial justice through Create, Clarify, and Connect approaches.
How Surdna Foundation Inc Att Marc de Venoge Gives
Typical grant size falls at $10,000 at the 25th percentile, $75,000 at the median, and $186,250 at the 75th percentile, while the recent grant list also includes much larger general-support awards in the seven-figure range. The portfolio shows repetition across years: New Venture Fund, Living Cities, NDN Collective, and the Andrus family entities each appear in multiple recent years. Surdna Foundation Inc Att Marc De Venoge is a regular funder, and the grant database classifies its support as general operating, flexible, and non-project-specific funding. It also makes program-related investments.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$58.9M
Total Assets
$1.2B
Total Revenue
$57M
Total Expenses
$77.1M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $10K and $186K, with a median of $75K.
25th Percentile
$10K
Median
$75K
75th Percentile
$186K
Geographic Reach
National41 states funded
About 24% of grants go to recipients in MN.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
DONALD CHEN
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