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FREDERICK & FRANCES SOMMER FOUNDATION

FREDERICK & FRANCES SOMMER FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being Don Bennett Moon Foundation Inc ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$298
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$10k
Net assets
$6.0M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 52%
01What it does

What Frederick & Frances Sommer Foundation does

Programs

  1. Prorated expenses, insurance, and occupancy expenses to preserve and protect the art work and collections of the late frederick sommer for scholarly research and public exhibition; development of database of known works of frederick sommer

    $7,537 spent
  2. Expenses of art fellowship program, primarily occupancy expenses to maintain real estate which researchers and students can visit

    $2,487 spent
  3. Prorated payroll and other direct expenses related to book on the life and art of frederick sommer

    $850 spent

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($11k) Expenses 100 ($67k) Net assets 100 ($5.9M)2018 Revenue 17 ($2k) Expenses 99 ($66k) Net assets 99 ($5.9M)2019 Revenue 169 ($19k) Expenses 56 ($37k) Net assets 99 ($5.8M)2020 Revenue 4 ($434) Expenses 47 ($31k) Net assets 98 ($5.8M)2021 Revenue 31 ($3k) Expenses 23 ($16k) Net assets 98 ($5.8M)2023 Revenue 338 ($39k) Expenses 23 ($15k) Net assets 101 ($6.0M)2024 Revenue 3 ($298) Expenses 27 ($18k) Net assets 101 ($6.0M)
2017201820192020202120232024
Revenue (3)Expenses (27)Net assets (101)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $5.9M to $5.9M (−1%).

$5.9M
$5.9M
$5.8M
$5.8M
$5.8M
$6.0M
$6.0M
2017201820192020202120232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

2017201820192020202120232024
Listed3333333
Joined·+0+0+0+0·+0
No longer listed·0000·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'19
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of FREDERICK & FRANCES SOMMER FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of FREDERICK & FRANCES SOMMER FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Arizona funders.

AZ

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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Questions and answers

Who funds FREDERICK & FRANCES SOMMER FOUNDATION?
FREDERICK & FRANCES SOMMER FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being Don Bennett Moon Foundation Inc ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FREDERICK & FRANCES SOMMER FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to FREDERICK & FRANCES SOMMER FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of FREDERICK & FRANCES SOMMER FOUNDATION?
Don Bennett Moon Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FREDERICK & FRANCES SOMMER FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing