Washington, D.C. · Private foundation
The Summit Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $7.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 110
- Grants FY2024
- 87
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 52%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 87
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 19
- Total assets, FY2024
- $159M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 52% of the organizations The Summit Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 83 | $6.7M | 16% |
| FY2023 | 87 | $6.6M | 52% |
| FY2022 | 53 | $3.8M | 53% |
| FY2021 | 38 | $1.8M | 42% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $1.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oceana Inc | $707,400 | 4 | 1% |
| Urban Sustainability Directors Network | $686,520 | 3 | 2% |
| Global Fund for Children | $655,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Global Philanthropy Partnership | $613,400 | 3 | 10% |
| The Coral Reef Alliance | $610,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide | $600,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Seattle International Foundation | $572,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Smart Growth America | $545,000 | 3 | 3% |
| The Population Council Inc | $465,000 | 3 | 0% |
| International Planned Parenthood Federation Western Hemisphere Region | $450,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 95 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Summit Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 93 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Ford Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · New Venture Fund · Freedom Together Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Barr Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Tides Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Summit Charitable Foundation Inc with peer funders
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About The Summit Charitable Foundation Inc
- How much does The Summit Charitable Foundation Inc give?
- The Summit Charitable Foundation Inc reported 110 grants totaling $7,254,053 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 87 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Summit Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (45%), International (18%), Civil Rights (7%).
- Who are The Summit Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Oceana Inc ($707k), Urban Sustainability Directors Network ($687k), Global Fund for Children ($655k).
- Does The Summit Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Summit Charitable Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Summit Charitable Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, The Ford Foundation, United States Energy Foundation.
- Where is The Summit Charitable Foundation Inc based?
- The Summit Charitable Foundation Inc is based in DC.
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