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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 FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$201k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% 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
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 18 grants below total $363,024, the rows itemized in this filing. The $419,744 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $56,720 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
$63k
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
DAVID BAUM CENTER FOR JEWISH COMM$10,000
SEAL$10,000
EL RIO FOUNDATION$10,000
TIDES FOUNDATION$10,000
SANTA FE OPERA$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$10,000
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$5,000
CHORDOMA FOUNDATION$5,000
THE DZI FOUNDATION$5,000
ST. GEORGES SOCIETY OF NEW YORK$5,000
TELLURIDE FOUNDATION$5,000
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CM
    Claremont McKenna College
    4× · 2021–2024 · $641k · revenue +68%
  • NP
    NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $111k · revenue +74%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN ALPINE CLUB
    4× · 2021–2024 · $56k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • SE
    SOCIAL & ECONOMIC ACTION FOR LEBANONINC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +21%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
    one grant, 2021 · $26k
  • TC
    THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +13%
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.

03Its field

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.

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
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
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
9
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
10
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…

Community Improvement
11
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Learning Disabilities Inc; 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.
03the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 51 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
22/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 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 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 budgetTELLURIDE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

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.
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 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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