Arkansas · Private foundation
The Summer Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $50k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 75%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 5
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 75% of the organizations The Summer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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 | 4 | $50k | 75% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $43k | 75% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $26k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $275k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $60k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $50k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation | $250,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Institute for Justice | $150,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Our House Inc | $22,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Arkansas Single Parent Scholarship Fund | $12,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Dana's House Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Youth Home Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Arkansas Foodbank | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Central Arkansas Library System Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| United Cerebral Palsy of Cent Ark Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Francis Center | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 13 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation | $250,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Institute for Justice | $150,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Our House Inc | $22,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Arkansas Single Parent Scholarship Fund | $12,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Dana's House Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Youth Home Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Arkansas Foodbank | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Central Arkansas Library System Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| United Cerebral Palsy of Cent Ark Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Francis Center | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Pulaski County Friends of Casa Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Centers for Youth and Families Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Arkansas Equine Rescue and Retirement Sanctuary | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($5k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Summer Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Heart of Arkansas United Way · Arvest Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc · The Robert C and Anne a Hickman Foundation · Riggs Benevolent Fund · Walton Family Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
About The Summer Foundation
- How much does The Summer Foundation give?
- The Summer Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $50,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 5 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Summer Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (50%), Crime & Legal (31%), Education (4%).
- Who are The Summer Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation ($250k), Institute for Justice ($150k), Our House Inc ($23k).
- Does The Summer Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Summer Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Summer Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arkansas Community Foundation Inc, Heart of Arkansas United Way, Arvest Foundation.
- Where is The Summer Foundation based?
- The Summer Foundation is based in AR.
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