Colorado · Nonprofit
SUMMIT MINISTRIES INC
SUMMIT MINISTRIES INC (Colorado) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,150,131 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($6,645,326). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 67
- Grants received
- $22M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Summit Ministries Inc does
Mission
Summit ministries is an educational christian ministry with the purpose of equipping tomorrow's servant leaders to analyze competing worldviews and champion the christian faith, inspiring each one to love god with all his heart, soul, mind, and strength.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Summit ministries summer programs - educate students ages 16-25 in christian worldview thinking, preparing them for the battle of ideas that they will face in college and in culture. The two-week in person conferences feature over 60 hours and one-week virtual (through zoom) conferences feature over 30 hours of instruction in worldview analysis, christian apologetics and leadership from a faculty of world-class instructors.
$5,763,603 spentof which $1,166,902 as grants$3,845,965 earned by the program47% of program spendingCurriculum development and sales - published materials to educate students and adults in christian worldview thinking, preparing them for the battle of ideas that they will face in college and in culture.
$2,843,970 spentof which $175,124 as grants$1,386,135 earned by the program23% of program spendingSummit gap year program - a 24-week christ-centered academic retreat, designed for post high school graduates. The retreat prepares young christian thinkers to address the dichotomy separating faith from reason. Major courses include history of christian thought, christianity and politics, and english literature. Minor courses include philosophy, art, theology & the church, cultural apologetics, and bible survey.
$2,061,055 spentof which $128,685 as grants$740,685 earned by the program17% of program spendingOther programs - alumni network, consulting and honorariums, program related rental activity.
$1,506,171 spentof which $18,785 as grants$574,315 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,174,799.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $13M to $16M (+27%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 10% · 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Julie Ambler
Chair person
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 40 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $4.0M.
20 of 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 MINISTRIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 funders by total. 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 MINISTRIES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
72% 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 MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 29% · 2019 29% · 2020 25% · 2021 43% · 2022 45% · 2023 34% — 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
71% of SUMMIT MINISTRIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
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
56% of SUMMIT MINISTRIES INC'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 $9.8M that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 18 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.
Organizations like SUMMIT MINISTRIES INC
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 38 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SUMMIT MINISTRIES INC: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SUMMIT MINISTRIES INC?
- SUMMIT MINISTRIES INC (Colorado) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,150,131 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($6,645,326). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SUMMIT MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $22,150,131 in grants to SUMMIT MINISTRIES INC, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUMMIT MINISTRIES INC?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,645,326 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUMMIT MINISTRIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 67 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing