· Private foundation
Summit Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIGONIER VALLEY FIRE COMPANIES | $10,000 |
| HOLY TRINITY CHURCH | $8,000 |
| VALLEY YOUTH NETWORK | $8,000 |
| LIGONIER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATI | $8,000 |
| LIGONIER VALLEY LIBRARY | $7,000 |
| LIGONIER VALLEY MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| LIGONIER VALLEY MEALS ON WHEELS | $5,000 |
| VALLEY SCHOOL OF LIGONIER | $4,000 |
| YMCA | $3,000 |
| LATROBE FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES MUSEUM OF ART | $2,500 |
| LIGONIER BOROUGH SHADE TREE COMMISSION | $2,000 |
| FORT LIGONIER ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| LOYALHANNA WATERSHED ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| LATROBE AREA HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FOUNDAT | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against -44% for those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LVLIGONIER VALLEY FIRE COMPANIES6× · 2020–2025 · $62k · revenue +51%
- LVLIGONIER VALLEY MEMORIAL ASSOCIATIO6× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +13% · 62% of their budget
- LVLIGONIER VALLEY MEALS ON WHEELS5× · 2021–2025 · $16k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- LALATROBE AREA HOSPITAL CHARITABLEone grant, 2021 · $3k
- VOVeterans of Foreign Wars Post 922one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue -44%
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.
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.
Promote civic, commercial, recreational, historical, environmental and general interest in the ligonier valley of westmoreland county pennsylvania
To provide public library services for the community, including programs, educational research and reading materials.
The conservancy is organized to protect, preserve and acquire natural resources in the lackawanna valley for the benefit of the general public.
Provide library services
Public lending library
Promoting the heritage of Pennsylvania's Internationally significant forest region and recognizing its value as a sustainable asset
Promote conservation
Venture lititz was established to serve as a community based economic development entity for the business district of lititz, pennsylvania. the organization strives to enhance the look, feel and functionality of the lititz business…
Museum
Lower macungie library strives to inform, enrich, and empower our community
Maintain volunteer fire and emergency service equipment, solicit support and acquire new equipment that becomes the property of the borough of ligonier
Conduct various programs to promote an understanding and appreciation for the history of the area as well as to preserve artifacts
How this is measured
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 29 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 LIGONIER VALLEY FIRE COMPANIES ↗
- Who funds LIGONIER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATI ↗
- Who funds VALLEY YOUTH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds LIGONIER VALLEY MEMORIAL ASSOCIATIO ↗
- Who funds LIGONIER VALLEY MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds VALLEY SCHOOL OF LIGONIER ↗
- Who funds LOYALHANNA WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds LIGONIER VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE LATROBE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FORT LIGONIER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds EAST LIBERTY FAMILY HEALTH CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LATROBE AREA HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOOD BRIDGE PRE-SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LIGONIER VALLEY RAIL ROAD ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 922 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Summit Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Summit Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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