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The Summerlee Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.3M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
195
Grants FY2025
186
Organizations funded FY2024
75%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$55,000
Organizations funded a year
133 to 189
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
37
Total assets, FY2025
$85M
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 Summerlee Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 60% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
AnimalsArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving188$2.2M70%
FY2024186$2.9M75%
FY2023189$2.6M72%
FY2022164$2.8M85%
FY2021133$1.4Mn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$4.1MAnimals$3.9MEducation$1.4MEnvironment$880kRecreation & Sports$732kPhilanthropy$389kScience & Tech$163kReligion$75kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 552 grantees
All grantees of The Summerlee Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Texas State Historical Association$445,000510%
Southern Plains Land Trust Inc$350,00044%
Friends of the Texas Historical Commission Inc$305,00047%
Downtown Dallas Parks Conservancy$300,00023%
Fair Park First$258,00031%
The Shumla School Inc$241,750314%
Greater Good Charities$227,50030%
University of North Texas Foundation Inc$110,00040%
Center for a Humane Economy Inc$105,00032%
Witte Museum$101,50050%
Plains Plains Archeological Foundation$100,000170%
Remember the Alamo Foundation$100,00010%
Animal Protection New Mexico$90,00041%
Southern Methodist University$85,00010%
Preservation Dallas Inc$76,00048%
Earth Island Institute Inc$70,00010%
Preservation Austin$70,00035%
Save the Dogs and Other Animals US$65,00024%
Preservation Texas Inc$62,50055%
Texas Tech Foundation Inc$60,00010%
Texas Archive of the Moving Image$60,00019%
Tom Lea Institute$60,00036%
East Texas A&M University Foundation$60,00011%
United Spay Alliance$57,00028%
Panthera Corporation$50,00020%
Faunalytics$50,00022%
Williamson County Historical Museum$50,00016%
Deep Ellum Foundation$50,00021%
Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries$50,00025%
Animal Balance$49,00022%
Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Inc$47,50030%
Hemisfair Conservancy$45,00031%
Rutherford B H Yates Museum Inc$42,50038%
Pan African Sanctuary Alliance Inc$40,00022%
Baylor University$40,00020%
Bryan Educational Institute$40,00021%
Documentary Arts Inc$40,00025%
Abara Inc$40,00023%
WellBeing International Inc$40,000221%
Sentient Media$39,00022%
Headwaters at the Comal$37,50022%
Texas General Land Office$37,5003n/a
El Progreso Library$37,50016%
Texas Association of Museums$35,00027%
Waterloo Greenway Conservancy$35,00030%
Washington Wildlife First$35,00026%
Midland Historical Society$35,000312%
Caddo Mounds State Historic Site Friends Association Inc$35,0002n/a
Humane World for Animals Inc$35,00020%
University of Idaho Foundation Inc$34,98020%
Animal Grantmakers Inc$34,500213%
African American Heritage Project$33,0003n/a
Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest$32,50020%
The Blackwell School Alliance$30,0001n/a
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation$30,0001n/a
American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign$30,00020%
Dr Pepper Museum and Free Enterprise Institute$30,00010%
ANIMAL HELP NOW (formerly Animal Watch)$30,000210%
Homeless Animals Relief Project Inc$30,000311%
Colorado State University Foundation$30,00010%
American University$30,00020%
Remembering Black Dallas Inc$30,0002n/a
Museum of South Texas History$30,0001n/a
Historic Denton$30,000452%
Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas Inc$30,00020%
Philanthropy Southwest$29,53521%
Ocean Alliance Inc$28,41522%
Kathlyn Joy Gilliam Museum$28,168126%
Wildcare Foundation$27,50014%
Southern Gateway Public Green Foundation$25,00011%
The Good Food Institute Inc$25,00010%
National Mounted Warfare Foundation$25,00012%
Urban Cat League Inc$25,0002n/a
Dallas Firefighters Museum Inc$25,00015%
Friends of the Ruidosa Church$25,0002n/a
Museum of the American Railroad$25,00013%
North Texas Public Broadcasting Inc$25,00010%
Marathon Public Library and History Museum$25,00013%
West Texas A&M Univ Foundation$25,00010%
Encore Park Dallas$25,00021%
Wayland Baptist University$25,00020%
Hoo Haven Inc$25,000210%
The Whale Sanctuary Project$25,0001n/a
Chisholm Trail Heritage Museum Inc$25,00010%
Animals and Society Institute Inc$25,00025%
Frontier Texas Inc$25,00011%
Spay Neuter Network$25,00010%
Houston Pets Alive$25,0001n/a
Gillespie County Historical Society Inc$25,00022%
Southwest Environmental Center$25,00018%
Animal Place$25,0001n/a
Archer County Museum and Arts Center Inc$25,000210%
Atlanta Grade School Friends$25,00014%
Chimp Haven Inc$24,00010%
Pawsitive Alliance$22,50025%
Law N Paws$22,50025%
Rosenberg Library Association$22,00010%
American Wild Horse Foundation$22,0001n/a
Shankleville Historical Society Inc$21,5001n/a
Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum$21,00040%
Ellis County Museum Inc$20,00014%
Fort Bend History Association$20,00030%
Catskill Animal Sanctuary Inc$20,00020%
Arlee Rehabilitation Center$20,00026%
Texana Arts Council$20,00017%
Dallas County Heritage Society$20,00021%
San Antonio Conservation Society$20,00012%
The Advocate Foundation$20,0001n/a
St Mary's University$20,00020%
National Western Art Foundation Briscoe Western Art Museum$20,00020%
Deep Vellum Publishing Inc$20,00021%
Victoria College Foundation Inc$20,00010%
Admiral Nimitz Foundation$20,00020%
Texas State History Museum Foundation$20,00021%
Earth Law Center$20,00021%
The Great Springs Project Inc (Audit)$20,00011%
Raincoast Conservation Foundation$20,00019%
Lake Jackson Historical Association$20,00018%
Second Chance Wildlife Rescue$20,0001n/a
Institute for Diversity and Civic Life$20,00023%
San Antonio Museum of Art$20,00020%
Archaeological Institute of America-Houston Society$20,000211%
National Park Foundation$20,00010%
Companion Animal Protection Society$20,0001n/a
Vision Historic Preservation Founda$18,500214%
San Marcos Cinema Club$18,5002n/a
Humane Action Pittsburgh$18,00023%
Stray Animal Project$18,00027%
Community Cat Coalition of Clark County$17,50026%
Temporary Home Animal Rescue Inc$17,5002n/a
Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservation$17,50011%
Big Bend Pets$17,5003n/a
St Edwards University$17,50020%
Appalachian Wildlife Refuge$17,50023%
Oklahoma Primate Sanctuary Inc$17,50023%
The Feline Fix$17,00023%
Buildingcommunityworkshop$17,00021%
Tiger Sanctuaries Inc$17,00034%
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society$15,00010%
House Rabbit Society$15,00011%
Flower Hill Center$15,0001n/a
Panhandle-Plains Historical Society$15,00011%
Fort Stockton Historical Society$15,00015%
The University of Florida Foundation Inc$15,00010%
Project Chimps$15,0001n/a
Dallas Historical Society$15,00021%
Compassion Without Borders$15,00011%
Dallas Womans Forum$15,00018%
South Texas Institute for the Arts$15,0001n/a
CASETA-Center for the Advancement & Study of Early Texas Art$15,00033%
Feline Fix$15,0001n/a
The Texarkana Historical Society and Museum$15,00013%
Operation Community Cats$15,0002n/a
Dickey Museum & Multipurpose Center$15,000137%
The Heritage Society$15,0001n/a
Center for African American Militar History$15,00010%
Daughters of the Republic of Texas$15,00011%
Sam Houston State University$15,0001n/a
Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas$15,0001n/a
Marine Mammals of Maine$15,00012%
The Chinati Foundation$15,0001n/a
American indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions$15,00010%
Wichita Falls Alliance for Arts and Culture$15,00012%
Humanities Texas$15,00010%
Historic Waco Foundation Inc$15,00013%
Friends of Baark Inc$15,0001n/a
San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association$15,00021%
River Pierce Foundation$15,000111%
Texas Public Broadcasting Association$15,00013%
Grand Companions Humane Society$15,0001n/a
South Plains Wildlife Rehabilitation Center Inc$15,00016%
Gault School of Archaeological Research$15,00012%
The Nasher Sculpture Center$15,00010%
Jefferson Historical Society & Museum$15,00018%
Alliance for Contraception in Cats & Dogs$15,00013%
Red Creek Wildlife Center Inc$15,00014%
New Braunfels Youth Collaborative$15,00010%
Alaska Wildlife Alliance$15,00013%
Save the Chimps Inc$15,00010%
Houston Archeological Society$15,0001n/a
Rosenberg Railroad Museum Inc$14,50022%
Julianas Animal Sanctuary Inc$14,50017%
Paws of Nome$14,5002n/a
Northern Colorado Friends of Ferals$13,50024%
Valley Zoological Society$13,00020%
Team Okanogan Animal Rescue$13,0001n/a
The International Wildlife Coexistence Network Inc$13,00012%
Maine State Society for the Protection of Animals$12,50011%
Paws 4 Purpose$12,50029%
University of Wisconsin Foundation$12,50010%
Atascosa Animal Allies Inc$12,50024%
Da Camera Society of Texas$12,50010%
Animal Friends Alliance$12,50020%
People Promoting Animal Welfare$12,50012%
Rockport Cultural Arts District$12,50023%
Vanderburgh County Humane Society Inc$12,00020%
Raton Humane Society$12,00025%
St Francis Society Inc$11,50022%
Colorado Feline Foster Rescue$11,30023%
Animal Rescue of the Rockies$11,00021%
Heart of the Hills Heritage Center$11,000173%
Animal Equality$10,00010%
Think Wild$10,00011%
Log Cabin Heritage Foundation$10,0001n/a
Friends of Monument Hill & Kreische Brewery State Historic Sites$10,00017%
Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter Barcs$10,00010%
City of Seguin$10,0001n/a
Humane Society of Greater Kc$10,00011%
Defenders of Wildlife$10,00010%
West of the Pecos Museum$10,00013%
The Advc Corp$10,00026%
Forest Forward$10,00010%
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston$10,00020%
Asheville Humane Society Inc$10,00010%
Austin Womans Club$10,00011%
Texas State University Development Foundation$10,00010%
Friends of Foothills Animal Shelter$10,00010%
Florida Wildlife Hospital & Sanctuary Inc$10,00011%
All Kind Animal Initiative$10,00010%
Humane Society of Charles County$10,00011%
Lifeline Animal Project Inc$10,00010%
Frontiers of Flight Museum Inc$10,00011%
Piedmont Farm Animal Refuge$10,00012%
Austin County Museum Association Inc$10,0001n/a
Texas A&M Foundation$10,00010%
Meetinghouse Revival$10,0001n/a
Iron Light Labs$10,00011%
Nacogdoches Arts Collaborative$10,0001n/a
Loudon County Friends of Animals Inc$10,000217%
Columbus Historic Preservation Trust$10,00011%
Friends of the Dallas Municipal Archives$10,0001n/a
Glenwood Cemetery Historic Preservation Foundation$10,00011%
Save Barton Creek Association$10,00017%
Turtle Island Restoration Network$10,00010%
Phil Hardberger Park Conservancy$10,00011%
Cindy Walker Foundation$10,000112%
Born Free USA united with API$10,00010%
Lewis & Clark College$10,00010%
Animal Legal Defense Fund Inc$10,00010%
Dallas Cat Rescue$10,00018%
Central Virginia Horse Rescue$10,00012%
The Humane Society of Austin & Travis County Inc$10,00020%
Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary Inc$10,00010%
Homeless Tails Inc$10,0001n/a
Save a Forgotten Equine$10,00011%
Alaqua Animal Refuge Inc$10,00010%
Colorado Horse Rescue$10,00010%
Friends of Horseshoe Bend Animals$10,0002n/a
People for Native Ecosystems$10,0002n/a
Dharmahorse Incorporated$10,000118%
Dove Creek Equine Rescue & Sanctuary$10,00011%
Oak Cliff Society of Fine Arts$10,00018%
Morgan Military Aviation Museum$10,0001n/a
Paws Atlanta Incorporated$10,00010%
Abandoned Animal Rescue$10,00021%
New Mexico Wildlife Center Inc$10,00010%
Starr County Historical Foundation$10,0001n/a
The National Kitten Coalition Inc$10,00018%
Texas Folklife Resources$10,00010%
The Gentle Barn Foundation$10,00010%
Friends of the Pound House$10,000110%
American Airpower Heritage Museum Inc$10,00011%
Community Music Center of Houston$10,00012%
The Dallas Opera$10,00010%
Dickerson Center for Civic Responsibility$10,0001n/a
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts$10,00011%
Friends of Feral and Homeless Cats$10,00018%
Bolivar Point Lighthouse Foundation Inc$10,00015%
Furry Friends Rockin' Rescue Inc$10,00011%
Underdog Animal Rescue and Rehab$10,00011%
Mississippi State University Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Red River Valley Museum$10,00013%
Schreiner University$10,00010%
Morris Animal Foundation$10,00010%
Audie Murphy American Cotton Museum$10,00015%
Palacios Area Historical Assn$10,00016%
Friends of Cibolo Wilderness$10,00020%
Farm Sanctuary Inc$10,00010%
New Roots Institute$10,00010%
Outreach Production$10,00016%
Big Bend Conservation Alliance$10,00013%
Lone Star Flight Museum$10,00020%
Hope's Legacy Equine Rescue Inc$10,00011%
Pennsylvania Bat Rescue Inc$10,00015%
Chapel Hill Cemetery Association Inc$10,0001n/a
Czech Cultural & Community Center$10,00013%
Wildlife Sanctuary of Northwest Florida Inc$10,0001n/a
Shoal Creek Conservancy$10,00012%
Levelland Wallace Theater$10,0001n/a
Presidio de San Saba Restoration Corporation$10,0001n/a
Citizens for Alternatives to Animal Research Andexperimentation Caare$10,000114%
Paws to Care Inc$10,00013%
Center for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc$10,00010%
Sammons Center for the Arts$10,00011%
Trinity University$10,00010%
Boyle Heights Cats$9,5001n/a
Friends of Libraries & Archives of TX DBA Texas Library & Archives Foundation$9,4501n/a
Old Red Courthouse Inc$9,00013%
Operation Topcat$9,00026%
Primates Incorporated$8,80022%
Global Sanctuary for Elephants$8,00010%
Rude Ranch Animal Rescue Inc$8,00011%
The Kilgore College Foundation$8,00010%
T-Town Tnr Inc$8,00014%
Oakland Heritage Society$8,0001n/a
End of the Trail Rescue$8,00014%
Renegade Paws Rescue Inc$7,50010%
Mission Possible Homeless Cat Foundation$7,500114%
Pups Without Borders$7,50011%
Animal Partisan Inc$7,5001n/a
Wildlife Rescue Inc$7,500119%
Abilene Heritage Square Inc$7,50010%
Saving One Life$7,50012%
San Augustine Main Street Pals$7,5001n/a
Teamferal Cat Rescue and Adoptions$7,5001n/a
Happy Cats Haven Inc$7,50012%
Rezq Dogs$7,50013%
Western West Virginia Animal Rescue Alliance Inc$7,5001n/a
Museum of East Texas$7,50011%
Show Your Soft Side Inc$7,50011%
Metro East Humane Society$7,5001n/a
Animal Outreach of Shelby County$7,5001n/a
Jasper County Historical Museum$7,500115%
The Spayed Club$7,5001n/a
Kitty Bungalow Charm School for Wayward Cats$7,50011%
Footloose Montana$7,50012%
Woods Humane Society Inc$7,50010%
Goliad Historical Society$7,5001n/a
Wildlife Information Project$7,5001n/a
Texas Trees Foundation$7,50010%
Ridgewood Rescue Inc$7,5001n/a
Care Humane Society$7,50011%
Jj's Helping Paws$7,50012%
Operation Catnip of Gainesville$7,50011%
Barn Sanctuary$7,50010%
Insync Exotic Inc$7,50010%
Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care Inc$7,50011%
Sonora Cat Rescue$7,50014%
Houston Petset$7,50010%
Kats Alley Cats$7,50014%
Indraloka Animal Sanctuary Inc$7,50011%
Meow Mission Incorporated$7,50014%
Wildlife Center of Silicon Valley$7,50011%
Animal Rescue League of Berks County Inc$7,50010%
Spokane Humane Society$7,50010%
Humane Society of Taos Inc dba Stray Hearts Animal Shelter$7,50011%
Milbank Animal Rescue Services$7,500113%
Whiskers Rescue Inc$7,50013%
Harmony Wildlife Rehabilitation Center$7,50013%
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWS$7,50010%
Euclid Beach Feral Cat Project Inc$7,5001n/a
Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge Inc$7,50012%
Pawsfund$7,5001n/a
Spay Neuter Services of Indiana$7,50010%
Terre Haute Humane Society Inc$7,50010%
Fix West Texas$7,50010%
Conservation History Association of Tx$7,500124%
Pet Project Rescue$7,50016%
Critter Harbor Incorporated$7,5001n/a
Owl's Nest Sanctuary for Wildlife Inc$7,50014%
Merlin Tuttles Bat Conservation Inc$7,50012%
Lucky Cat Adoptions Inc$7,50015%
Animal Friends of Washington County$7,00011%
Friends All United for Natch Animal$7,00010%
Tiny Paws Kitten Rescue Inc$7,0001n/a
Friends of Strays Inc$7,0001n/a
Llano Kitty Fixers$7,0001n/a
Robinsons Rescue Inc$7,0001n/a
Humane Society of Ray County$7,0001n/a
Cats at Large Inc$7,0001n/a
Polk County Humane Society$7,0001n/a
Humane Society of San Bernardino Valley$7,00010%
Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc$7,00010%
Ferals in Peril Inc$7,0001n/a
Rabun Paws 4 Life Inc$7,00011%
Kitty Revolution$7,00014%
Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children$6,50010%
Paws Pet Adoption of Plainview$6,420119%
Espanola Valley Humane Society$6,25010%
Crazy Cats Animal Rescue$6,20014%
Pauls Clinic Inc$6,00015%
Humane Society of Somerset County$6,00011%
Windsor Kittens Inc$6,00014%
South Pacific County Humane Society$6,00021%
Blind Cat Rescue & Sanctuary Inc$6,00010%
Petfix Spay and Neuter$6,00012%
Species Unite 23 Inc$6,00012%
Stephens County Humane Society$6,00011%
Communities Promoting Animal Welfare NJ$6,00018%
Friends of Plumas County Animals$6,00017%
Paws South Florida Rescue Inc$6,000113%
Lemhi County Humane Society$6,00011%
A Cats Life Rescue$6,00012%
Community Cat Support Network$6,0001n/a
Wolly Kitten Club$6,00016%
Palm Valley Animal Society Fka Palm Valley Animal Center$5,00010%
Save Austins Cemeteries$5,0001n/a
Texas Dance Hall Preservation Inc$5,00018%
Tippedears$5,00013%
Lake Traverse Animal Rezcue$5,00013%
It Takes a Village Animal Rescue & Resources$5,00011%
Friends of Michigan Animals Rescue$5,00012%
SNIP Collier Inc$5,00010%
Paris Community Theater$5,00012%
Paw Warriors Inc$5,00013%
Old Jail Art Center$5,0001n/a
Meow Village$5,00012%
Ten Lives Club Inc$5,00010%
Ice House Museum & Cultural Center Inc$5,00016%
Grand Valley Pets Alive$5,0001n/a
Farmersville Historical Society$5,0001n/a
Museum of the West Texas Frontier$5,00014%
Wild Blue Cats$5,00011%
Feral Change Dba Full Circle Cats$5,00013%
Dekalb Humane Society Inc$5,00012%
The Orion Society Inc$5,00020%
Rogue Valley Humane Society$5,00010%
Hill Country Animal League Spca Inc$5,00010%
Humboldt Spayneuter Network$5,00011%
Shadow Cats Rescue$5,00011%
Ruffian Foundation$5,0001n/a
Tnr North Platte$5,0001n/a
River Road Neighborhood Association$5,0001n/a
Houston Cares Animal Rescue$5,00013%
Zachary Scott Theatre Center$5,00010%
Feline Advocates of Leon County$5,00012%
Homeward Bound Pets Humane Society$5,00010%
Paws of Muskingum County$5,00017%
Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute$5,00010%
Amor Por Juarez$5,00015%
Islands Feral Cat Project$5,0001n/a
Houston Museum District Association$5,00015%
Puppy Kitty Ny City Inc$5,00010%
Barrio Dogs Inc$5,00012%
The Falls on the Colorado Museum$5,0001n/a
Truly All Cats Trapping and Rescue Inc$5,00014%
History of West Museum$5,0001n/a
PAWS Humane Inc$5,00010%
Port Arthur Historical Society$5,00011%
Anderson Animal Shelter$5,00010%
Arcadia Live Inc Dba Kerrville's 4th on the River$5,00010%
Yancey County Humane Society$5,00011%
Friends of the Warren Ferris Cemetery$5,0001n/a
Port City Cat Rescue$5,00013%
Tree House Humane Society Inc$5,00010%
Spayarkansas$5,00011%
Nebraska Humane Society$5,00010%
Humane Society of Hall County Inc$5,00010%
Wildlife Freedom Foundation Inc$5,00016%
Pines and Prairies Land Trust$5,00014%
The Animal Mission$5,00011%
Central Coast Humane Society$5,00014%
Runaways Animal Rescue$5,00011%
Rocky Mountain Wildlife Alliance$5,00011%
Animal Rescue Konsortium Inc$5,00015%
Gold Country Wildlife Rescue Inc$5,00010%
Saving Great Animals$5,00011%
Invisible Histories$5,00011%
Priest River Animal Rescue Inc$5,00011%
First Coast No More Homeless Pets Inc$5,00010%
Kearney Rescue Cats$5,00012%
Twin County Humane Society$5,00017%
Stray Cat Blues Inc$5,00011%
Center for Animal Rescue & Enrichment of St Louis$5,00010%
University of Minnesota Foundation$5,00010%
Westcott Cemetery Association Inc$5,00015%
Save a Kitty Inc$5,00016%
Kim's Nurturing Nest Animal Sanctuary$5,00012%
Beare Garden Plantation Animal Rescue$5,00012%
Florence Area Humane Society$5,00010%
Muny Conservancy$5,0001n/a
Cat Haven Inc$5,00011%
The Museum of North Texas History$5,00013%
Llano River Railroad$5,0001n/a
Fractured Atlas Inc$5,00010%
Happy Trails Farm Animal Sanctuary$5,00010%
Benewah Humane Society Inc$5,00013%
Smoky Mountain Animal Care Foundation$5,00011%
Austin Theatre Alliance$5,00010%
Corpus Christi Patch Inc$5,0001n/a
Central New York Cat Coalition Inc$5,00011%
Museum of Fine Arts$5,00010%
Ohio Wildlife Center$5,00010%
Paws & Claws Animal Rescue of Quay$5,00016%
Paws Prayers & Promises$5,00014%
Pet Community Center Inc$5,00010%
Barnwell County Animal Shelter Foundation$5,0001n/a
Rogers Wildlife Rehabilitation Inc$5,00010%
Austin History Center Association Inc$5,00010%
Color Country Animal Welfare$5,00012%
St Philips School and Community Center$5,00010%
Save Our Cats and Kittens$5,00011%
Austin Wildlife Rescue$5,00010%
Columbus Humane Society Inc$5,000124%
Smith County Humane$5,00013%
Wharton County Stray Pet Outreach Team$5,00012%
Alpine Humane Society$5,00012%
Wild About Cats of Cumberland County$5,00017%
Portland Animal Welfare Team$5,00011%
No 1 British Flying Training School Museum Inc$5,00012%
Take Me Home Pet Rescue Inc$5,00012%
Garfield S Rescue Inc$5,00013%
Friends of Hillsboro City Library$5,00012%
PAWS of Grays Harbor$5,00012%
Pregnant Mare Rescue$5,00015%
Fixin the Coast$5,0001n/a
Ferallife Guards$5,00013%
Rio Grande Valley Museum Association of Harlingen Inc$5,000111%
Beartooth Humane Alliance$5,00012%
Bro and Tracy Animal Welfare Inc$5,00012%
Tails Of Nye County Inc$5,0001n/a
New Braunfels Community Cat Coalition$5,00018%
Alley Cat Rescue Inc$5,00010%
Lancaster Spca$5,00011%
Operation Liberation$5,0001n/a
30A Cats$5,00013%
Northeast Arkansas Humane Society Inc$5,00011%
Blessing Historical Foundation$5,00013%
Preservation Longview$5,00019%
Council of Texas Archeologists$4,5001n/a
Forney Historic Preservation League$4,50014%
Feline Rescue in the Ferry$4,0001n/a
Sos Lost Pet Rescue Nw Inc$4,00015%
Safe Haven for Cats$4,00010%
Zoomies Funny Farm$4,00015%
Tucson Wildlife Center Inc$4,00010%
Noahs Paws Animal Rescue$4,0001n/a
Pet Pantry of Lancaster County Inc$4,00010%
Wood County Humane Society$4,00011%
Monroe County Friends of Animals$4,00010%
Humane Society of the Palouse$4,00012%
Pet Prevent a Litter (Pals) of Central Texas$4,00011%
Longmont Friends of Feral & Abandoned Cats$3,75014%
Bell County Museum Associationinc$3,50012%
Macon Spay Neuter Assistance$3,5001n/a
Friends of the Terrell County Animal Shelter$3,5001n/a
Dove Lewis Emergency Animal Hospital Inc$3,50010%
Southlake Historical Society Inc$3,0001n/a
Freestone County Historical and Museum Association Inc$3,00011%
Tiny Miracles Kitten Rescue$3,0001n/a
Front-Porch Felines$3,0001n/a
Happy Cat Club$3,0001n/a
Texas Litter Control$3,00010%
Underdog Community Project$3,0001n/a
Itty Bitty Kitten Rescue Inc$3,00016%
Lumberton Historical Museum$2,5001n/a
Casino Cats$2,5001n/a
Schertz-Cibolo Cemetery Association$2,5001n/a
No Animal Left Unfed Inc$2,5001n/a
Animal Allies Humane Society Inc$1,5001n/a
Humane Society of Catawba County Dba the Humane Society of Catawba Co$1,00010%
Vintage Flying Museum Inc$1,00012%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 128 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Summerlee Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Texas State Historical Association: $445,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetSouthern Plains Land Trust Inc: $350,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetFriends of the Texas Historical Commission Inc: $305,000 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetDowntown Dallas Parks Conservancy: $300,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetFair Park First: $258,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetThe Shumla School Inc: $241,750 over 3y, 14% of budgetGreater Good Charities: $227,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of North Texas Foundation Inc: $110,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCenter for a Humane Economy Inc: $105,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetWitte Museum: $101,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPlains Plains Archeological Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 70% of budgetRemember the Alamo Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAnimal Protection New Mexico: $90,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $85,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPreservation Dallas Inc: $76,000 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $70,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPreservation Austin: $70,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetSave the Dogs and Other Animals US: $65,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetPreservation Texas Inc: $62,500 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetTexas Tech Foundation Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Archive of the Moving Image: $60,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetTom Lea Institute: $60,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetEast Texas A&M University Foundation: $60,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUnited Spay Alliance: $57,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetPanthera Corporation: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFaunalytics: $50,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetWilliamson County Historical Museum: $50,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetDeep Ellum Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGlobal Federation of Animal Sanctuaries: $50,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetAnimal Balance: $49,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetWildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Inc: $47,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHemisfair Conservancy: $45,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetRutherford B H Yates Museum Inc: $42,500 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetPan African Sanctuary Alliance Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetBaylor University: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBryan Educational Institute: $40,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDocumentary Arts Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetAbara Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetWellBeing International Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetSentient Media: $39,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetHeadwaters at the Comal: $37,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetEl Progreso Library: $37,500 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetTexas Association of Museums: $35,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetWaterloo Greenway Conservancy: $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWashington Wildlife First: $35,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetMidland Historical Society: $35,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Idaho Foundation Inc: $34,980 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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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 200.

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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.

Petco LoveTX84.6× affinity81 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Petco Love · BISSELL Pet Foundation · Humanities Texas · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Texas Historical Foundation · Best Friends Animal Society · Humane World for Animals Inc · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Banfield Foundation · Still Water Foundation · Petsmart Charities Inc · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation

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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Find your warmest path to The Summerlee Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Summerlee Foundation

How much does The Summerlee Foundation give?
The Summerlee Foundation reported 195 grants totaling $2,278,865 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 133 and 189 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does The Summerlee Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (34%), Animals (32%), Education (11%).
Who are The Summerlee Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: The Texas State Historical Association ($445k), Southern Plains Land Trust Inc ($350k), Friends of the Texas Historical Commission Inc ($305k).
Does The Summerlee Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Summerlee Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Summerlee Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Petco Love, BISSELL Pet Foundation, Humanities Texas.
Where is The Summerlee Foundation based?
The Summerlee Foundation is based in TX.

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 686 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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