Colorado · Public charity
The Summit Foundation
For over 40 years, THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION has been the trusted partner in supporting the entire summit county community and providing strong leadership to address the most pressing community needs. We are recognized as the leading philanthropic organization for summit county and our neighboring communities. We are committed to creating…
- $5.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 107
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 95
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $4.1M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $13,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $755,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 84 to 109
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $28M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations The Summit Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 103 | $4.1M | 10% |
| FY2024 | 95 | $2.2M | 12% |
| FY2023 | 84 | $2.8M | 13% |
| FY2022 | 90 | $3.0M | 8% |
| FY2021 | 109 | $3.7M | 16% |
| FY2020 | 94 | $2.9M | 19% |
| FY2019 | 104 | $2.6M | 13% |
| FY2018 | 105 | $3.1M | 39% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summit County Resource Center Dba Family & Intercultural Resource Center | $2,129,513 | 8 | 6% |
| Summit Community Care Clinic Inc | $1,710,040 | 8 | 2% |
| The Keystone Science School Inc | $1,379,944 | 8 | 15% |
| Grand County Rural Health Network Inc | $845,500 | 9 | 53% |
| Lake Dillon Foundation for the Performing Arts Dba Theatre Silco | $733,100 | 9 | 5% |
| Advocates for Victims of Assault Inc | $716,646 | 9 | 12% |
| Building Hope Summit County | $684,595 | 8 | 14% |
| High Country Conservation Center | $487,739 | 9 | 7% |
| Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center | $453,450 | 9 | 3% |
| Summit County Child Care Resource & Referral Agency | $443,500 | 9 | 4% |
Show all 203 grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Summit Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 13 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 158 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: Colorado Gives Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Lloyd Family Foundation · The Colorado Trust · F Cubed Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Jane Alexandra Storm Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation
How this is measured
About The Summit Foundation
- How much does The Summit Foundation give?
- The Summit Foundation reported 107 itemized grants totaling $4,132,404, out of $4,972,323 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 84 and 109 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Summit Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (23%), Health (15%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are The Summit Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Summit County Resource Center Dba Family & Intercultural Resource Center ($2.1M), Summit Community Care Clinic Inc ($1.7M), The Keystone Science School Inc ($1.4M).
- Does The Summit Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% 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 Colorado Gives Foundation, Rocky Mountain Health Foundation, Anschutz Family Foundation.
- Where is The Summit Foundation based?
- The Summit Foundation is based in CO.
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