· Public charity
The Summit Foundation
THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION is a tax-exempt community foundation that fosters philanthropy in the greater summit nj area.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 33 grants below total $730,805 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $970,831 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $240,026 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $470k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| OVERLOOK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $50,100 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NJ | $50,000 |
| REEVES-REED ARBORETUM | $45,500 |
| SUMMIT SPEECH SCHOOL | $45,000 |
| THE CONNECTION FOR WOMEN & FAMILIES | $40,500 |
| SAGE ELDERCARE | $40,000 |
| CENTER FOR HOPE HOSPICE | $29,085 |
| CHILD FOCUS | $25,000 |
| IMAGINE A CENTER FOR COPING WITH LOSS | $25,000 |
| SUMMIT AREA YMCA | $23,300 |
| THE CRAIG SCHOOL | $22,120 |
| TRINITAS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $20,350 |
| OPPORTUNITY PROJECT | $19,000 |
| PAPER MILL PLAYHOUSE | $15,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $758k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 97% of those 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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SSSUMMIT SPEECH SCHOOL6× · 2017–2024 · $315k · revenue +29%
- CFCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc6× · 2017–2024 · $266k · revenue +97%
- TCTHE CONNECTION FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES5× · 2017–2024 · $213k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- SDSUMMIT DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY PROGRAMSone grant, 2023 · $90k
- SDSUMMIT DOWNTOWN INCone grant, 2020 · $58k · revenue -61%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEYINCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue ×51
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To maintain and enhance the high quality of a summit, new jersey public school education through community funding of innovative and essential educational grants, a close working relationship with the school district, and careful review,…
The summit foundation is a tax-exempt community foundation that fosters philanthropy in the greater summit nj area. the foundation uses competitive grants and the wishes of donors to meet the needs of the community.
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Camcare health corp provides high quality comprehensive primary health care services to families served in and around the city of camden, new jersey, as well as camden and gloucester counties
To protect and expand the rights of citizens of the state of new jersey, and encourage active citizen involvement in campaigns promoting economic, social and racial equity.
Promoting, assisting and supporting the sustainability and growth of casa programs in new jersey. casa programs promote the protection of abused and neglected children by using trained volunteers to advocate for these children in courts…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Summit Speech School and the most unlike its peers is Lindsey Street Post 322 American Legion. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
74 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. 74 of the 85 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 SUMMIT SPEECH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds SAGE ELDERCARE ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTION FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT AREA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TRINITAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OVERLOOK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IMAGINE A CENTER FOR COPING WITH LOSS ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds REEVES - REED ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds PG CHAMBERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT PARK LINE FOUNDATION INC CO ROBERT J RUBINO MD ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT INTERFAITH COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocates of Union County Inc ↗
- Who funds GRACE - GIVING AND RECEIVING ASSISTANCE FOR OUR COMMUNITY'S ESSENTIALS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Union County Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HOPE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Morristown Medical Center ↗
- Who funds CONTINUO ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Summit Volunteer First Aid Squad Inc ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD GRIEF INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT DOWNTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF EASTERN UNION COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds CONTACT WE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds Paper Mill Playhouse ↗
- Who funds THE CRAIG SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SUMMIT PUBLIC ART INC ↗
- Who funds THE MATHENY SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds UNION COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PILLAR CARE CONTINUUM ↗
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: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Investors Foundation Inc · Ej Grassmann Trust · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Columbia Bank Foundation · The Provident Bank Foundation · Union Foundation · Pseg Foundation Inc · The Westfield Foundation · Overlook Foundation
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 Summit 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Employment Horizons Inc — 90% of income from government
- Child Focus Inc — 29% of income from government
- Literacy New Jersey Inc — 28% of income from government
- Bridges Outreach Inc — 25% of income from government
- Somerset County Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 22% of income from government
- Paper Mill Playhouse — 9% of income from government
- Ywca of Eastern Union County Inc — 8% of income from government
- Opportunity Project Inc — 6% of income from government
- Ymca Camp Ralph S Mason — 4% of income from government
- Kindersmile Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
- Family Promise Inc — 2% of income from government
- Center for Hope Hospice Inc — 2% of income from government
- Summit Downtown Inc — 2% of income from government
- Reeves - Reed Arboretum — 1% of income from government
- Sage Eldercare — 1% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Madison Nj — 1% of income from government
- Pillar Care Continuum — 1% of income from government
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.