How much does The Summit Foundation give?

The Summit Foundation reported 36 itemized grants totaling $1,144,526, out of $1,776,287 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 37 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does The Summit Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (21%), Human Services (20%), Health (18%).

Who are The Summit Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: City of Summit ($771k), City of Summit & City of Summit Summit High School ($526k), Summit Board of Education ($392k).

Does The Summit Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Summit Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Community Foundation of New Jersey, Investors Foundation Inc.

Where is The Summit Foundation based?

The Summit Foundation is based in NJ.

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New Jersey · Public charity

The Summit Foundation

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.

$1.8M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 36
Itemized grants FY2025: 33
Organizations funded FY2024: 21%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $1.1M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $14,190
Largest grant, FY2025: $526,015
Organizations funded a year: 29 to 37; FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $23M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 21% of the organizations The Summit Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureEmploymentOther

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	36	$1.1M	14%
FY2024	33	$731k	21%
FY2023	37	$854k	11%
FY2022	29	$699k	21%
FY2021	36	$607k	17%
FY2020	35	$993k	31%
FY2018	34	$754k	53%
FY2017	33	$1.0M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.2MHuman Services$1.1MHealth$1.0MPublic Benefit$630kFood & Nutrition$272kArts & Culture$255kHousing & Shelter$239kEnvironment$171kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
City of Summit	$770,544	5	n/a
City of Summit & City of Summit Summit High School	$526,015	1	n/a
Summit Board of Education	$392,402	3	n/a
Summit Speech School	$365,000	7	2%
Sage Eldercare	$307,500	6	2%
Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc	$266,000	6	0%
The Connection for Women and Families	$243,509	6	1%
Summit Area Young Men's Christian Association a Nj Nonprofit Corporation	$236,673	7	1%
Children's Specialized Hospital Foundation Inc	$211,785	6	0%
Trinitas Foundation	$186,554	5	2%

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All grantees of The Summit Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
City of Summit	$770,544	5	n/a
City of Summit & City of Summit Summit High School	$526,015	1	n/a
Summit Board of Education	$392,402	3	n/a
Summit Speech School	$365,000	7	2%
Sage Eldercare	$307,500	6	2%
Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc	$266,000	6	0%
The Connection for Women and Families	$243,509	6	1%
Summit Area Young Men's Christian Association a Nj Nonprofit Corporation	$236,673	7	1%
Children's Specialized Hospital Foundation Inc	$211,785	6	0%
Trinitas Foundation	$186,554	5	2%
Bridges Outreach Inc	$155,300	7	2%
Overlook Foundation	$148,480	5	0%
Imagine a Center for Coping With Loss	$119,000	6	2%
Reeves - Reed Arboretum	$117,750	6	3%
Summit Park Line Foundation Inc Co Robert J Rubino Md	$117,500	4	74%
Pg Chambers School	$114,857	6	0%
Grace - Giving and Receiving Assistance for Our Community's Essentials Inc	$101,000	5	18%
Family Promise Inc	$100,400	5	1%
Central Community Foundation a New Jersey Non Profit Corporation	$100,000	1	n/a
Center for Hope Hospice Inc	$99,085	4	0%
Summit Volunteer First Aid Squad Inc	$87,900	5	5%
Summit Interfaith Council	$77,400	4	33%
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Union County Inc	$75,000	4	4%
Continuo Arts Foundation Inc	$74,178	6	7%
YWCA of Eastern Union County Inc	$70,500	5	0%
Our House Foundation Inc	$70,350	6	1%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Union County Inc	$69,500	5	1%
Contact We Care Inc	$69,253	5	3%
Visual Arts Center of New Jersey	$65,250	5	1%
Foundation for Morristown Medical Center	$64,950	5	0%
Literacy New Jersey Inc	$62,500	7	1%
Good Grief Inc	$61,250	4	1%
Paper Mill Playhouse	$59,500	6	0%
Summit Downtown Inc	$58,350	1	5%
The Matheny School and Hospital Inc	$47,000	5	0%
Union County College Foundation	$46,500	5	0%
The Craig School	$42,120	2	0%
Pillar Care Continuum	$41,685	3	0%
Friends of Summit Public Art Inc	$41,029	4	20%
Elevate to Even Plus Incorporated Aka Elevate	$40,000	3	11%
Summit Conservancy a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation	$36,215	2	n/a
Second Street Youth Center Inc	$35,000	3	0%
Summit Football Alumni Association	$32,500	5	14%
Great Swamp Watershed Association	$30,018	3	1%
Big Brothers Big Sisters Foundation of New Jerseyinc	$30,000	1	n/a
The Winston School	$27,500	3	0%
St Joseph Social Service Center	$26,000	4	1%
Empowering Kids Organization Inc	$25,800	3	13%
Planned Parenthood of Northern Central and Southern New Jersey Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Child Focus Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Building Homes for Heroes Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Lindsey Street Post 322 American Legion	$25,000	1	n/a
Calvary Episcopal Church	$24,000	2	n/a
Somerset County Young Men's Christian Association Inc	$23,500	2	0%
Playhouse Association Incorporated	$22,558	3	30%
Senior Services Center of the Chathams Inc	$22,145	4	3%
Elizabeth Coalition to House the Homeless Inc	$21,041	3	0%
Curemonos Inc	$20,000	1	37%
Hometowne Television Inc Formerly Httv Inc	$19,462	3	5%
Opportunity Project Inc	$19,000	1	2%
Employment Horizons Inc	$19,000	1	0%
Kindersmile Foundation Inc	$18,000	2	0%
YMCA Camp Ralph S Mason	$17,750	3	0%
The Uncommon Thread Inc	$17,000	1	n/a
Eclc Foundation	$15,000	2	2%
Foundation for University Hospital a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation	$15,000	1	0%
The Fortnightly Club of Summit Nj	$15,000	1	15%
Promly Support Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
The Junior League of Summit Inc	$15,000	1	4%
Morris-Union Jointure Commission	$11,970	1	n/a
Summit Free Public Library Foundation Inc	$11,700	2	n/a
The Craig School	$10,000	1	n/a
The Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Therayouth Foundation	$10,000	1	3%
Steps Together A NJ Non Profit	$10,000	1	7%
Young Men's Christian Association of Madison Nj	$10,000	1	0%
The Institute for Children With Cancer and Blood Disorders Inc	$10,000	1	1%
New Jersey Bicycle Coalition Inc Dba D/B/A New Jersey Bike & Walk Coalition	$9,000	1	2%
Samaritan Homeless Interim Program Inc	$7,500	1	1%
CivicStory	$7,100	1	14%
Summit Performing Arts Resource Committee Inc	$6,150	1	14%
One World One Love A NJ Non-Profit	$6,000	1	7%
Summit Chorale Inc	$6,000	1	10%
The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College	$6,000	1	0%
Adult School of the Chathams Madison and Florham Park Inc	$5,500	1	1%
Summit Helping Its People	$5,500	1	n/a
Diocese of New Jersey	$5,200	1	n/a
Girls on the Run Nj East Inc	$5,000	1	1%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($101k), not named here.

The Summit Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 73 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 73.

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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.

The Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ72.1× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Summit Foundation

How much does The Summit Foundation give?: The Summit Foundation reported 36 itemized grants totaling $1,144,526, out of $1,776,287 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 37 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does The Summit Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (21%), Human Services (20%), Health (18%).
Who are The Summit Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: City of Summit ($771k), City of Summit & City of Summit Summit High School ($526k), Summit Board of Education ($392k).
Does The Summit Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Summit Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Community Foundation of New Jersey, Investors Foundation Inc.
Where is The Summit Foundation based?: The Summit Foundation is based in NJ.