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SUMMIT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION

SUMMIT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $587,971 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($101,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$662k
Funders on record
25
Grants received
$588k
Net assets
$6.7M
16/25 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 32%
01What it does

What Summit Educational Foundation does

Mission

To maintain and enhance the high quality of a summit, new jersey public school education through community funding of innovative and essential educational grants, a close working relationship with the school district, and careful review, evaluation and financial oversight of supported initiatives.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The annual fund of the summit education foundation encourages and funds teacher and district-initiated programs that advance the curriculum and district objectives. During the 2024-25 fiscal year, 47 grants totaling $238,239 were awarded from the annual fund. The largest grant awards funded the following initiatives:expansion of panorama: a view of the whole child - $41,704extending formative license to enhance instruction, assessment, and data-driven practice - $17,534teaching with dignity - $16,760adjustable desks and seating for student productivity and well-being - $12,958music therapy - $11,200

    $238,239 spentof which $238,239 as grants
    54% of program spending
  2. The endowment fund of the Summit Educational Foundation provides funding for strategic long-term initiatives critical to the health of the district and its ability to provide an excellent educational experience for its students. The endowment fund was created as a way to ensure future funding to develop new curriculum initiatives and provide professional development to meet the needs of 21st century learners. During the fiscal year ended june 30, 2025, grant awarded totaled $183,335. The largest grant awards funded the following initiatives:middle school steam enhancement - $42,840young technicians: enhancing steam & theatre technology resources to support elementary theatre - $21,657at risk mentoring program grades/areas: grades 6-8 schools: lcjsms - $15,000

    $183,335 spentof which $183,335 as grants
    42% of program spending
  3. The Summit Educational Foundation funded specific grants with contributions received subject to donor-imposed restrictions.

    $15,929 spentof which $15,929 as grants
    4% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $437,503.

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 ($544k) Expenses 100 ($549k) Net assets 100 ($4.9M)2018 Revenue 160 ($870k) Expenses 76 ($419k) Net assets 117 ($5.7M)2019 Revenue 124 ($673k) Expenses 165 ($906k) Net assets 114 ($5.5M)2020 Revenue 77 ($419k) Expenses 89 ($488k) Net assets 116 ($5.7M)2021 Revenue 210 ($1.1M) Expenses 147 ($807k) Net assets 145 ($7.1M)2022 Revenue 129 ($702k) Expenses 255 ($1.4M) Net assets 107 ($5.2M)2023 Revenue 127 ($689k) Expenses 120 ($656k) Net assets 114 ($5.6M)2024 Revenue 101 ($549k) Expenses 129 ($708k) Net assets 126 ($6.1M)2025 Revenue 122 ($662k) Expenses 92 ($506k) Net assets 138 ($6.7M)
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Revenue (122)Expenses (92)Net assets (138)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $6.3M to $7.9M (+26%).

$5.7M
$6.1M
$6.4M
$6.3M
$7.9M
$6.8M
$6.5M
$7.0M
$7.3M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$5k
’17
$450k
’18
−$233k
’19
−$69k
’20
$337k
’21
−$697k
’22
$33k
’23
−$159k
’24
$155k
’25
32
months of
reserve

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.

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Listed212121212321222123
Joined·+5+6+3+9+5+5+6+8
No longer listed·56377476
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $12k → $220k.

11 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 EDUCATIONAL 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.

How concentrated its funding is

SUMMIT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

89% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund SUMMIT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION.

17%
largest funder
47%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 41% · 2019 37% · 2020 47% · 2021 30% · 2022 29% · 2023 24% — diversifying over time.

“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.

How long its funders stay

40% of SUMMIT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

89% of SUMMIT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $63k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from funders outside New Jersey, across 6 states.

NY
PA
NJ
DE
NC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $525k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like SUMMIT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New Jersey

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 7%Fundraising 7%

Governance

23
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

54%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NJ

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Questions and answers

Who funds SUMMIT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
SUMMIT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $587,971 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($101,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SUMMIT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $587,971 in grants to SUMMIT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SUMMIT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $101,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SUMMIT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 25 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