· Private foundation
The Summer Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE | $25,000 |
| CENTRAL ARKANSAS LIBRARY SYSTEM FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| YOUTH HOME | $10,000 |
| PULASKI COUNTY FRIENDS OF CASA | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 70% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The organization and its volunteers serve as advocates for abused and neglected children.
The organization provides a therapeutic shelter and care for homeless and/or abused children.
The mission of east arkansas youth services, inc. is to provide a comprehensive continuum of care to include therapeutic, educational, and advocacy services, to youth and their families, and to instill motivation and courage to empower…
Habilitation and residential services for adults with developmental disabilities
To provide a safe have, high quality care, and hope for the future to chidren who have been abandoned, abused, or neglected.
Providing hope for children and families in the arkansas child welfare system provide foster care, supervised visitation services, a safe space for children to rest while waiting on a foster family and training for foster families.
Provide assistance to indigents in central arkansas.
Teaching work skills and daily living skills to individuals with developmental disabilities.
To provide quality compassionate behavioral healthcare services to children and families of arkansas through a comprehensive continuum of programs which include residential treatment center care, therapeutic group home care, emergency…
To create an environment where staff is conscientious to the behavioral health needs of the area in a manner which is client oriented, accessible, affordable, and quality driven.
To provide services to low income individuals.
We build, strengthen and restore arkansas families for god's glory.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Centers for Youth and Families Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pulaski County Friends of Casa Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds DANA'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF CENT ARK INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds Central Arkansas Library System Foundation ↗
- Who funds YOUTH HOME INC ↗
- Who funds St Francis Center ↗
- Who funds PULASKI COUNTY FRIENDS OF CASA INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS EQUINE RESCUE AND RETIREMENT SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds CENTERS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Summer Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.