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Summerland Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
80%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$100
Largest grant, FY2024
$300
Organizations funded a year
6 to 12
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$32k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 80% of the organizations Summerland Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 84% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
ReligionYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving9$1k67%
FY202310$2k80%
FY20228$99863%
FY202112$4k100%
FY20206$510n/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$4kRecreation & Sports$2kHealth$600Employment$400International$358Arts & Culture$260Human Services$243Education$200Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
MI
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
AZ
AR
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Urban Racquet Sports Foundation$2,30031%
Intentional Life Media$50020%
Equal Access to Training$4002n/a
Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry Inc$3581n/a
Harvest Church Corp$3001n/a
Reliant Mission Inc$2501n/a
Christian Motorcyclists Association Inc$21710%
Jesusonline Ministries$20020%
Truth for Life$16520%
Come and See Foundation Inc$1031n/a
Show all 21 grantees
All grantees of Summerland Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Urban Racquet Sports Foundation$2,30031%
Intentional Life Media$50020%
Equal Access to Training$4002n/a
Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry Inc$3581n/a
Harvest Church Corp$3001n/a
Reliant Mission Inc$2501n/a
Christian Motorcyclists Association Inc$21710%
Jesusonline Ministries$20020%
Truth for Life$16520%
Come and See Foundation Inc$1031n/a
Revelation Media Inc$10010%
Coral Ridge Ministries Media Inc$10010%
Trans World Radio$1001n/a
First Baptist Church$1001n/a
Turning Point Counseling Inc$10010%
Mymichigan Medical Center Saginaw$10010%
Christian History Institute Inc$10010%
Gigis Playhouse Inc$601n/a
Michigan State University$501n/a
The Heritage Foundation$5010%
Focus on the Family$431n/a

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($3k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Summerland Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUrban Racquet Sports Foundation: $2,300 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetIntentional Life Media: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Motorcyclists Association Inc: $217 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJesusonline Ministries: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTruth for Life: $165 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRevelation Media Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCoral Ridge Ministries Media Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTurning Point Counseling Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMymichigan Medical Center Saginaw: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChristian History Institute Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Heritage Foundation: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Thrivent Charitable Impact & InvestingWI17.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Summerland Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Summerland 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.

About Summerland Foundation

How much does Summerland Foundation give?
Summerland Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $1,110 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Summerland Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (44%), Recreation & Sports (28%), Health (7%).
Who are Summerland Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Urban Racquet Sports Foundation ($2k), Intentional Life Media ($500), Equal Access to Training ($400).
Does Summerland Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Summerland Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Summerland Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing, Servant Foundation, Christian Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Summerland Foundation based?
Summerland Foundation is based in MI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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