Tennessee · Private foundation
Summers Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $104k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $34,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 31
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 39% of the organizations Summers Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 32 | $104k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $93k | 39% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $91k | 46% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $82k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $116k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $59k | 8% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $60k | 64% |
| FY2017 | 13 | $71k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trail Life USA Inc | $61,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Friends Life Community | $55,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Young Life | $23,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Dolphin Aquatics Dba Nashville Dolphins | $19,660 | 8 | 1% |
| Lipscomb University | $15,500 | 2 | 0% |
| East-West Ministries International | $14,829 | 6 | 0% |
| Grace Resources | $12,000 | 8 | 4% |
| National Parents Organization Inc | $11,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Backfield in Motion | $11,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Backlight Productions | $10,000 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($385k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Summers Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Nashville Predators Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
About Summers Foundation
- How much does Summers Foundation give?
- Summers Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $104,432 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Summers Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (22%), Philanthropy (17%), Youth Development (14%).
- Who are Summers Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Trail Life USA Inc ($62k), Friends Life Community ($55k), Young Life ($23k).
- Does Summers Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Summers 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 Summers Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Nashville Predators Foundation, Hca Healthcare Foundation.
- Where is Summers Foundation based?
- Summers Foundation is based in TN.
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