How much does The Summer Hill Foundation give?

The Summer Hill Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $676,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 13 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

What does The Summer Hill Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (85%), Arts & Culture (4%), Recreation & Sports (4%).

Who are The Summer Hill Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust Inc ($840k), The Trust for Public Land ($640k), Save the Redwoods League ($625k).

Does The Summer Hill Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Summer Hill Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Summer Hill Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bafflin Foundation, Fields Pond Foundation Inc, Maine Community Foundation Inc.

Where is The Summer Hill Foundation based?

The Summer Hill Foundation is based in CT.

Foundation Dossiers

Connecticut · Private foundation

The Summer Hill Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$676k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 9
Grants FY2025: 13
Organizations funded FY2024: 38%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $86,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $100,000
Organizations funded a year: 8 to 13; FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 4
Total assets, FY2025: $20M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations The Summer Hill Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $223k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EnvironmentArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	9	$676k	0%
FY2024	13	$898k	38%
FY2023	8	$661k	25%
FY2022	13	$1.1M	23%
FY2021	11	$1.0M	45%
FY2020	9	$760k	56%
FY2019	9	$802k	n/a

96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Environment$5.0MArts & Culture$261kRecreation & Sports$225kFood & Nutrition$115kPhilanthropy$100kHousing & Shelter$50kEducation$30kOther$0

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
Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust Inc	$840,000	6	7%
The Trust for Public Land	$640,000	5	0%
Save the Redwoods League	$625,000	6	0%
Wyndham Land Trust Inc	$450,000	4	32%
Madison Land Conservation Trust	$415,000	4	64%
Avalonia Land Conservancy Inc	$276,750	5	7%
New England Forestry Foundation Inc	$250,000	2	3%
Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation	$216,000	4	1%
The Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated	$200,000	3	1%
Pathfinders Inc	$200,000	1	4%

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All grantees of The Summer Hill Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust Inc	$840,000	6	7%
The Trust for Public Land	$640,000	5	0%
Save the Redwoods League	$625,000	6	0%
Wyndham Land Trust Inc	$450,000	4	32%
Madison Land Conservation Trust	$415,000	4	64%
Avalonia Land Conservancy Inc	$276,750	5	7%
New England Forestry Foundation Inc	$250,000	2	3%
Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation	$216,000	4	1%
The Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated	$200,000	3	1%
Pathfinders Inc	$200,000	1	4%
Huguenot Historical Society New Paltz Ny	$136,000	2	3%
Dudley Foundation Inc	$115,000	4	34%
Manchester Land Conservation Trust Inc	$100,000	1	16%
Blue Hill Heritage Trust	$100,000	1	5%
Middlesex Land Trust	$100,000	1	31%
Woodie Wheaton Land Trust	$100,000	1	14%
Madison Historical Society Inc	$80,200	2	21%
Greater Lovell Land Trust Inc	$50,000	1	4%
Groton Parks Foundation Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
Groton Open Space Association Inc	$20,000	1	10%
The Archaeological Conservancy	$20,000	1	0%
Deacon John Grave Foundation Inc	$14,500	2	18%
Branford Historical Society Inc	$10,000	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($948k), not named here.

The Summer Hill Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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.

Bafflin FoundationRI22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bafflin Foundation · Fields Pond Foundation Inc · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Davis Conservation Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Connecticut Land Conservation Council Inc · John Sage Foundation · Onion Foundation · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

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.

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About The Summer Hill Foundation

How much does The Summer Hill Foundation give?: The Summer Hill Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $676,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 13 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does The Summer Hill Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (85%), Arts & Culture (4%), Recreation & Sports (4%).
Who are The Summer Hill Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust Inc ($840k), The Trust for Public Land ($640k), Save the Redwoods League ($625k).
Does The Summer Hill Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Summer Hill Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Summer Hill Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bafflin Foundation, Fields Pond Foundation Inc, Maine Community Foundation Inc.
Where is The Summer Hill Foundation based?: The Summer Hill Foundation is based in CT.