· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PPI Ministries | $300 |
| Urban Racquet Sports Foundation | $200 |
| Need Him Ministry | $100 |
| Ascension St Marys Hospital | $100 |
| Trans World radio | $100 |
| Pathway To Victory | $100 |
| Jesus Online Ministries | $100 |
| Gigis Playhouse | $60 |
| Michigan State University | $50 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of its 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 +2% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $510 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ILINTENTIONAL LIFE MEDIA2× · 2021–2022 · $500 · revenue +199%
- JMJESUSONLINE MINISTRIES2× · 2023–2024 · $200 · revenue +6%
- TFTRUTH FOR LIFE2× · 2020–2022 · $165 · revenue +34%
Funded once
- FCField Center For Neuroscienceone grant, 2021 · $500
- FOFRIENDS OF ISRAEL GOSPEL MINISTRY INCone grant, 2023 · $358
- HCHARVEST CHURCH CORPone grant, 2023 · $300
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.
Provide inspirational programming in various languages domestically and abroad via satellite, cable, internet, radio local am, fm and television mediums.
Religion
To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
To engage in christian evangelism through the publication and worldwide distribution of "herald of his coming" periodical
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
Christian family media ministries, inc operates as christian family radio and has a mission of showcasting god's glory through your story with life changing media.
To reach as many people as possible with the good news of jesus christ and help them connect with god. we do this by playing positive, encouraging & uplifting christian music and programming, promoting a community of christian faiths,…
God Centered Life is organized to call our culture church and society back to a realization that true life is genuinely and fully centered upon God as revealed in the Bible the person of Jesus Christ and the Trinity - Father Son and Holy…
To present the gospel by providing life-long opportunities to integrate faith and learning through balanced, biblically based scholarship, training people to love god by renewing their minds and equipping the church to engage the world for…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 38 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 Urban Racquet Sports Foundation ↗
- Who funds INTENTIONAL LIFE MEDIA ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN MOTORCYCLISTS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds JESUSONLINE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds TRUTH FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds REVELATION MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds Coral Ridge Ministries Media Inc ↗
- Who funds PLEDGELING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT COUNSELING INC ↗
- Who funds MYMICHIGAN MEDICAL CENTER SAGINAW ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN HISTORY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Summerland Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Summerland Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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