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The Summer Foundation at a glance

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The Summer Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$50k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$250kCrime & Legal$155kEducation$23kHousing & Shelter$23kHealth$20kHuman Services$18kFood & Nutrition$10kAnimals$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE$25,000
YOUTH HOME$10,000
CENTRAL ARKANSAS LIBRARY SYSTEM FOUNDATION$10,000
PULASKI COUNTY FRIENDS OF CASA$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 70% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%ST FRANCIS CENTER: $8k → 7%ARKANSAS SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $13k → 14%ROALND CRISIS CLOSET: $5k → 17%DANA'S HOUSE INC: $10k → 19%INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $25k → 7%ARKANSAS EQUINE RESCUE AND RETIREMENT SANCTUARY: $500 → 17%INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $25k → 7%CENTRAL ARKANSAS LIBRARY SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $25k → 7%OUR HOUSE: $13k → 17%INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $25k → 7%OUR HOUSE: $10k → 17%INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $25k → 7%ARKANSAS FOODBANK: $10k → 17%INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $25k → 7%ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION: $250k → 17%UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS INC: $10k → 17%PULASKI COUNTY FRIENDS OF CASA: $5k → 17%YOUTH HOME: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
Casa of North Arkansas

The organization and its volunteers serve as advocates for abused and neglected children.

Civil Rights
2
Arkansas Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc

The organization provides a therapeutic shelter and care for homeless and/or abused children.

Housing & Shelter
3
East Arkansas Youth Services Inc

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…

Human Services
4
The Arkansas Center for Independence

Habilitation and residential services for adults with developmental disabilities

Human Services
5
Northwest Arkansas Children's Shelter in Dba Everhope Arkansas Inc

To provide a safe have, high quality care, and hope for the future to chidren who have been abandoned, abused, or neglected.

Human Services
6
Searcy Childrens Home Inc Sparrows Promise

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.

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7
St Francis House Inc

Provide assistance to indigents in central arkansas.

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8
Arkansas Enterprises for the Developmentally Disabled Inc

Teaching work skills and daily living skills to individuals with developmental disabilities.

Human Services
9
United Methodist Children's Home

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…

Human Services
10
Southeast Arkansas Behavioral Healthcare

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.

Health
11
Central Arkansas Development Council

To provide services to low income individuals.

Community Improvement
12
Arkansas Baptist Children's Home & Family Ministries

We build, strengthen and restore arkansas families for god's glory.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Centers for Youth and Families Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION: $250,000 · Arts & CultureARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATIONINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $150,000 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICEOUR HOUSE INC: $22,500 · OtherOUR HOUSE IN…ARKANSAS SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $12,500 · OtherARKANSAS SIN…St Francis Center: $7,500 · OtherSt Francis C…Individual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual g…PULASKI COUNTY FRIENDS OF CASA INC: $5,000 · OtherPULASKI COUN…+2 more: $1,000 · OtherYOUTH HOME INC: $10,000 · HealthUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF CENT ARK INC: $10,000 · HealthDANA'S HOUSE INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterARKANSAS FOODBANK: $10,000 · Food & NutritionCentral Arkansas Library System Foundation: $10,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$250,000Civil Rights$150,000Other$53,500Health$20,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Food & Nutrition$10,000Education$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $150,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOUR HOUSE INC: $22,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetARKANSAS SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $12,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDANA'S HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetYOUTH HOME INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARKANSAS FOODBANK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF CENT ARK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Francis Center: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTERS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARKANSAS EQUINE RESCUE AND RETIREMENT SANCTUARY: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

Arkansas Community Fo…Heart of Arkansas Uni…Arvest FoundationUnion Pacific Foundat…Roy and Christine Stu…Windgate Charitable F…The Robert C and Anne…Riggs Benevolent FundWalton Family Foundat…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
Arkansas Community Foundation IncAR21.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Summer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Summer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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