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Summit 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.

$420k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$201k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0188% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Education$858kPhilanthropy$250kEnvironment$164kInternational$82kRecreation & Sports$66kYouth Development$66kHealth$62kArts & Culture$57kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 18 grants below total $363,024 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $419,744 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $56,720 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $131k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $201k
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$92k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE$200,584
IQRA FUND$30,000
CHESS IN THE SCHOOLS$27,690
THE AMERICAN ALPINE CLUB$13,750
SEAL$10,000
DAVID BAUM CENTER FOR JEWISH COMM$10,000
SANTA FE OPERA$10,000
TIDES FOUNDATION$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$10,000
EL RIO FOUNDATION$10,000
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$5,000
ST. GEORGES SOCIETY OF NEW YORK$5,000
CHORDOMA FOUNDATION$5,000
THE DZI FOUNDATION$5,000
TELLURIDE FOUNDATION$5,000
02Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 17 repeat orgs$274k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
26

Total granted

$2.0M
$256k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+13%

Still filing today

76%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthInternationalHuman ServicesOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CM
    Claremont McKenna College
    4× · 2021–2024 · $641k · revenue +68%
  • NP
    NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $111k · revenue +175%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN ALPINE CLUB
    4× · 2021–2024 · $56k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • SE
    SOCIAL & ECONOMIC ACTION FOR LEBANONINC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +21%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
    one grant, 2021 · $26k
  • TS
    Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel
    one grant, 2022 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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4
Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation Inc

The sarnoff cardiovascular research foundation is dedicated to cultivating the next generation of physician-leaders in cardiovascular medicine by funding and supporting medical students and physicians engaged in transformative research.

Health
5
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
6
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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7
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
8
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
9
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
10
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
12
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Learning Disabilities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Climbing Smiths Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…College Foundation SupportClassical Music OrchestrasCommunity Hospital SystemsChildhood Cancer SupportCommunity Literacy TutoringCharter and Independent Sch…Local History MuseumsEnvironmental Advocacy and …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%58%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/33
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,532

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

03the grantee network

31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 51 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
21/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

STATEMENT A ATTACHED — $858,905 · OtherSTATEMENT A ATTACHEDClaremont McKenna College — $640,584 · OtherClaremont McKenna CollegeNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $111,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIONChess in Schools — $100,000 · Other+30 more — $351,134 · Other+30 moreFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $215,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY …THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $20,000 · EducationREADWORKSINC — $10,000 · EducationCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $3,000 · Education+2 more — $1,350 · EducationSOCIAL & ECONOMIC ACTION FOR LEBANONINC — $50,000 · InternationalIQRA Fund — $32,000 · InternationalCHESS-IN-THE-SCHOOLS INC — $52,690 · Recreation & SportsTELLURIDE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION — $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SANTA FE OPERA — $11,000 · Arts & CultureST PATRICKS DAY FOUNDATION NYC — $2,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,000 · Arts & CultureCHORDOMA FOUNDATION — $20,000 · HealthCANCER LEAGUE OF COLORADO INC — $7,078 · Health
Other$2,061,623Community Improvement$215,000Education$84,350International$82,000Recreation & Sports$62,690Arts & Culture$39,000Health$27,078

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetClaremont McKenna College — $640,584 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $215,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $111,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN ALPINE CLUB — $55,865 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCHESS-IN-THE-SCHOOLS INC — $52,690 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL & ECONOMIC ACTION FOR LEBANONINC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetIQRA Fund — $32,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHORDOMA FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDZI FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEL RIO FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SANTA FE OPERA — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTELLURIDE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREADWORKSINC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLIMBING SMITHS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetCANCER LEAGUE OF COLORADO INC — $7,078 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE COLORADO MOUNTAIN CLUB — $6,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST GEORGE'S SOCIETY OF NEW YORK — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER — $4,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHonnold Foundation — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST PATRICKS DAY FOUNDATION NYC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIMON HERITAGE SOCIETY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEAN MELLON SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $1,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetSpruce Street School — $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Seattle FoundationCommunity Foundation …The Denver FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Jewish Communal FundVanguard Charitable E…Texas Instruments Fou…Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Pfizer Foundation…Renaissance Charitabl…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY19.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Seattle Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Texas Instruments Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Summit Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Summit 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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