New Jersey · Private foundation
The Sumas Family Foundation Inc
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.
- $385k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 55
- Grants FY2025
- 50
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 68%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 50
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $407k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 68% of the organizations The Sumas Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k 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 | 55 | $385k | 69% |
| FY2024 | 50 | $270k | 68% |
| FY2023 | 46 | $208k | 76% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $77k | 54% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $145k | 98% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $42k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $25k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Autism Speaks Inc | $160,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Sharing Network Foundation Inc | $140,500 | 5 | 3% |
| The Valerie Fund | $81,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc | $40,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Ted R Green Foundation | $22,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Friends of the Food Industry Inc | $12,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Connie Dwyer Breast Cancer Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Habitat for Humanity International Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| EmbrellaInc | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Arc of Essex County Inc | $8,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 92 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 74 recipients with no EIN on record ($429k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Sumas Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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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: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Columbia Bank Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Mondelez International Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Pseg Foundation Inc · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Oceanfirst Foundation
How this is measured
About The Sumas Family Foundation Inc
- How much does The Sumas Family Foundation Inc give?
- The Sumas Family Foundation Inc reported 55 grants totaling $384,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 50 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Sumas Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (51%), Religion (14%), Public Safety & Disaster (11%).
- Who are The Sumas Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Autism Speaks Inc ($160k), The Sharing Network Foundation Inc ($141k), The Valerie Fund ($81k).
- Does The Sumas Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 68% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sumas Family Foundation Inc 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 The Sumas Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of New Jersey, Columbia Bank Foundation, The Hyde and Watson Foundation.
- Where is The Sumas Family Foundation Inc based?
- The Sumas Family Foundation Inc is based in NJ.
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