Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Summit Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $76k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 22
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Summit Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 | 21 | $76k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $72k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $64k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $61k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $77k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $62k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ligonier Valley Fire Companies | $62,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Ligonier Valley School District Foundati | $39,500 | 6 | 9% |
| Valley Youth Network | $36,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Ligonier Valley Memorial Associatio | $25,000 | 6 | 62% |
| Ligonier Valley Meals on Wheels | $16,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Valley School of Ligonier | $16,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Loyalhanna Watershed Association Inc | $12,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art | $9,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Ligonier Valley Historical Society | $8,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Latrobe Foundation Inc | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ligonier Valley Fire Companies | $62,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Ligonier Valley School District Foundati | $39,500 | 6 | 9% |
| Valley Youth Network | $36,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Ligonier Valley Memorial Associatio | $25,000 | 6 | 62% |
| Ligonier Valley Meals on Wheels | $16,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Valley School of Ligonier | $16,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Loyalhanna Watershed Association Inc | $12,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art | $9,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Ligonier Valley Historical Society | $8,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Latrobe Foundation Inc | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Fort Ligonier Association | $7,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Western Pennsylvania Conservancy | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| East Liberty Family Health Care Center Inc | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Latrobe Area Hospital Charitable Foundation | $5,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Wood Bridge Pre-School Inc | $5,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Ligonier Valley Rail Road Association | $4,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 922 | $1,000 | 1 | 2% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($147k), 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 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 Pittsburgh Foundation · Rk Mellon Family Foundation · Katherine Mabis McKenna Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Tomahawk Hill Foundation · Laurel Ridge Foundation Inc · Robertshaw Charitable Foundation · Eden Hall Foundation · The Dorothy Babcock Family Charitable Foundation · Walton R Etal Trs Walton Fam Fnd-Agy · Laurel Highlands · Allegheny Foundation
How this is measured
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About Summit Foundation
- How much does Summit Foundation give?
- Summit Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $76,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 22 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Summit Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (24%), Public Safety & Disaster (15%), Religion (12%).
- Who are Summit Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Ligonier Valley Fire Companies ($62k), Ligonier Valley School District Foundati ($40k), Valley Youth Network ($36k).
- Does Summit Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Summit Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Summit Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, Rk Mellon Family Foundation, Katherine Mabis McKenna Foundation.
- Where is Summit Foundation based?
- Summit Foundation is based in PA.
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