· Private foundation
The Sumner Scholarship Endowment Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROCTOR ACADEMY | $30,000 |
| BYERSCHOOL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE ISLAND INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS | $15,000 |
| ISLAND READERS & WRITERS | $13,500 |
| SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE | $13,000 |
| NORTHEAST HARBOR LIBRARY | $13,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE FOUNDATION | $10,548 |
| THE SPRINGBOARD SCHOOL AT LUBAVITCH ON THE PALISADES | $10,000 |
| THE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 34% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of The Sumner Scholarship Endowment Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PAPROCTOR ACADEMY9× · 2017–2025 · $322k · revenue +45%
- BFBYERSCHOOL FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $182k · revenue +55%
- IIIsland Institute7× · 2018–2025 · $160k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- RBRUSSELL BYERS CHARTER SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +19%
- AFAcadia Family Centerone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -99%
- TOTOWN OF MOUNT DESERTone grant, 2024 · $10k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Island School provides a flexible learning environment where each child is known and celebrated.
Inspiring young scholars to contribute their wisdom, compassion, and personal best in the classroom, the community and the world.
Rippowam Cisqua School creates independent thinkers, confident communicators, and engaged leaders who respect and contribute meaningfully to a diverse and increasingly complex global society.
Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…
An independent school providing a comprehensive educational program for children from K through 12th grade.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Hca is a public charter school offering rigorous, personalized, project- based education to maine students in grades 5-12.
Island pacific academy (ipa) is a k-12 independent, coed, college preparatory school
We create confident learners who lead lives of intellectual curiosity, self-knowledge, and social responsibility.
Independent school offering programs for infants, toddlers, preschool, and elementary school aged children with and without hearing loss.
Education
The purpose of the school is to promote, advance and sponsor charitable and educational activities.
How this is measured
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PROCTOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BYERSCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Island Institute ↗
- Who funds ISLAND READERS & WRITERS AN INITIATIVE FOR MAINE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE CLUB ↗
- Who funds Words Without Borders Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST HARBOR LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds ANTIGUA INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Maine Foundation ↗
- Who funds RUSSELL BYERS CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CAMP BEECH CLIFF ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ON THE PALISADES ↗
- Who funds Acadia Family Center ↗
- Who funds Maine Seacoast Mission ↗
- Who funds RAINIER PREP ↗
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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Colket Family Foundation · Florence V Burden Foundation · Hattie a and Fred C Lynam Trust · Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc · Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Sumner Scholarship Endowment Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sumner Scholarship Endowment Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Jewish Community Center On the Palisades: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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