· Public charity
Summers Foundation
The SUMMERS FOUNDATION is organized exclusively for the benefit of several section 501(c)(3) organizations in and around anderson county, texas.
Read this first · the figures below need context
96% of Summers Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k4 grants · $115k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RENAISSANCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $1,938,759 |
| EAST TEXAS COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION | $275,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF | $40,000 |
| THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY | $30,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF | $24,578 |
| PALESTINE YMCA | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 87% of Summers Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 51% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 43%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FPFirst Presby Church-Palestine6× · 2017–2023 · $273k
- PTPALESTINE TEXAS ROTARY FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $90k
- UAUTMD ANDERSON2× · 2020–2021 · $60k
Funded once
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OFone grant, 2019 · $73k
- PRPALESTINE ROTARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $20k
- FUFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
7 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. 7 of the 16 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 Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TEXAS AREA FUND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CARTMELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PALESTINE TEXAS ↗
- Who funds CARTMELL COMMUNITIES INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: East Texas Communities Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Summers Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Summers Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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