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Summit 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.

$420k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
18
Itemized grants FY2024
23
Organizations funded FY2023
78%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$363k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$200,584
Organizations funded a year
1 to 23
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
10
Total assets, FY2024
$63k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 78% of the organizations Summit Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureInternationalHealthEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
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 arriving16$348k25%
FY202323$375k78%
FY202214$470k57%
FY202116$235k100%
FY20201$462k0%
FY20191$397kn/a
88% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Claremont McKenna College$640,58440%
National Park Foundation$111,00020%
The American Alpine Club$55,86541%
Chess-In-The-Schools Inc$52,69021%
Social & Economic Action for Lebanoninc$50,00013%
IQRA Fund$32,00023%
The Carnegie Hall Corporation$25,00010%
University of Colorado Foundation$20,00020%
Chordoma Foundation$20,00030%
National Center for Learning Disabilities Inc$15,00020%
Show all 29 grantees
All grantees of Summit Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Claremont McKenna College$640,58440%
National Park Foundation$111,00020%
The American Alpine Club$55,86541%
Chess-In-The-Schools Inc$52,69021%
Social & Economic Action for Lebanoninc$50,00013%
IQRA Fund$32,00023%
The Carnegie Hall Corporation$25,00010%
University of Colorado Foundation$20,00020%
Chordoma Foundation$20,00030%
National Center for Learning Disabilities Inc$15,00020%
El Rio Foundation Inc$15,00020%
Dzi Foundation$15,00030%
The Santa Fe Opera$11,00020%
Christ the Savior Lutheran Church$10,0001n/a
Climbing Smiths Foundation$10,0001100%
Readworksinc$10,00020%
Cancer League of Colorado Inc$7,07830%
The Colorado Mountain Club$6,50010%
St George's Society of New York$5,00010%
Catskill 3500 Club Inc$5,0001n/a
The Animal Medical Center$4,70010%
Colorado State University Foundation$3,00010%
St Patricks Day Foundation NYC$2,00010%
Honnold Foundation$2,00010%
Alaska Wilderness League$2,00010%
Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence$1,00010%
Limon Heritage Society$1,00011%
Sean Mellon Scholarship Fund Inc$1,00015%
Spruce Street School$35010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Summit Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetClaremont McKenna College: $640,584 over 4y, 0.1% 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 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 budgetUniversity of Colorado Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChordoma Foundation: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNational Center for Learning Disabilities Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEl Rio Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDzi Foundation: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Santa Fe Opera: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetClimbing Smiths Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetReadworksinc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% 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 budgetSt Patricks Day Foundation NYC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHonnold Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlaska Wilderness League: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBrady Center to Prevent Gun Violence: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLimon Heritage Society: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSean Mellon Scholarship Fund Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetSpruce Street School: $350 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 27.

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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.

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

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 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.

About Summit Foundation

How much does Summit Foundation give?
Summit Foundation reported 18 itemized grants totaling $363,024, out of $419,744 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 23 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Summit Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (30%), Philanthropy (9%), Environment (6%).
Who are Summit Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Claremont McKenna College ($641k), National Park Foundation ($111k), The American Alpine Club ($56k).
Does Summit Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 78% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Summit 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 Summit Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Seattle Foundation, Community Foundation Boulder County.
Where is Summit Foundation based?
Summit Foundation is based in NY.

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 51 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $420k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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