Kentucky · Nonprofit
SUMMIT CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
SUMMIT CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY (Kentucky) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $456,210 to it, the largest being CARSON-MYRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($416,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SUMMIT CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 15,926 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Mayfield Graves County Tornado Relief Fund Inclocal
- Franklin W & Helen S Bowen Charitable Trustportfolio match
- The Morkal Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
58% of SUMMIT CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $50k → $70k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of SUMMIT CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY’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.
How concentrated its funding is
SUMMIT CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 93% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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 SUMMIT CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 260 organizations that share them.
- Mayfield Graves County Tornado Relief Fund InclocalKY · funds 10 organizations near you
- Franklin W & Helen S Bowen Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Morkal Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Libertyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Calvin Universityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Heinemannmark & Judy Foundation-Importfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Folds of Honor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Council for Christian Colleges and Universitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frazier Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kyle Lake Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Educational Funding of the South Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Naphcare Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like SUMMIT CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SUMMIT CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SUMMIT CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY?
- SUMMIT CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY (Kentucky) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $456,210 to it, the largest being CARSON-MYRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($416,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SUMMIT CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $456,210 in grants to SUMMIT CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUMMIT CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY?
- CARSON-MYRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $416,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUMMIT CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing