Georgia · Nonprofit
The Summit Counseling Center Inc
The Summit Counseling Center Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,339,440 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($434,200). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.7M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What The Summit Counseling Center Inc does
Mission
The Summit Counseling Center, Inc, known as The Summit, provides professional counseling, psychological testing, school-based therapy, mental health awareness & suicide prevention education using an integrative approach to treat the whole person body, mind, spirit, and relationships. The Summit provides services for all family members including adults, teens, and children to address a wide variety of mental health and substance use concerns and to promote awareness and wellness within communities in North Metro Atlanta. The Summit is committed to providing a therapeutic relationship, an integrative approach to healing, high-quality services provided by state licensed providers, multiple areas of specialization, evidence-based practices, partnerships with community stakeholders, community service, and accountability to our Board of Directors and to our accrediting agency, The Solihten Institute. (continued on Sch O)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The primary program of The Summit Counseling Center is the Outpatient Office-based and Telehealth Counseling and Psychological Services Program. This program provides individual, couples, family and group counseling services to adults, children, and adolescents. Our professional state licensed clinical staff utilizes evidence-based therapies to treat a wide range of clinical issues including (but not limited to) anxiety, depression, complicated grief, trauma, substance use/abuse, parenting, and relationship difficulties. The Summit provided 23,156 hours of therapy and served 2,881 unduplicated clients in 2024-25. Specialized programs include suicide risk assessments, play therapy for children, dialectical behavioral therapy, and skills groups. Additionally, associate licensed clinicians are provided clinical supervision from certified mental health clinical supervisors at no charge for clinical quality assurance. Specialized Child and Play Therapy Program for children aged 3-12: Mental health is a crucial aspect of children's overall well-being. It encompasses their mental, emotional, and behavioral health, influencing how they think, feel, and act. Additionally, it plays a role…
$3,022,181 spentof which $436,426 as grants$2,663,207 earned by the program52% of program spendingSince 2015, The Summit has provided the "Summit On-Site" School-Based Mental Health Services Program. The Summit has partnered with both private and public schools to offer confidential mental health therapy, conveniently located in the school so that students have the option to see their therapists at school during the day. The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) is the largest national survey related to Youth Risk Behavior and is managed by the CDC. According to the most recent data publicly available (from 2023), the mental well-being of high school students across the United States faced significant challenges. 1. Mental Health and Suicidality: - 39.7% of students experienced persistent feelings of sadness and hopelessness - 28.5% of students experienced poor mental health - 20.4% of students seriously considered attempting suicide - 9.5% of students attempted suicide 2. Gender Differences: Female students, LGBQ+ students, and students who had any same-sex partners were more likely than their peers to experience poor mental health and suicidal thoughts and behaviors. - Nearly 53% of female students and nearly 65% of LGBQ+ students experienced persistent feelings of…
$2,712,333 spentof which $436,426 as grants$335,932 earned by the program47% of program spendingMental Health Awareness and Suicide Prevention Education: Mental health awareness and suicide prevention play a crucial role in promoting well-being and saving lives. The Summit is committed to creating a well-informed and stigma free community by encouraging open conversations and education on mental health topics. In 2024-25, The Summit provided 121 workshops and presentations, reaching over 3,000 individuals in our community. Event topics included: - Understanding Eating Disorders - Positive Discipline Skills for Parents - Relationship Building for Couples - Well-Being in the Workplace - Building Self-Confidence - Postpartum Anxiety & Depression - Talking to Teens About Grief - Intersection of Faith and Mental Health - Identifying the signs of Anxiety - How to Be a Trusted Adult (Recognizing the Signs of Suicide) The Summit was the primary founding and sponsoring organization of the North Fulton Mental Health Collaborative. The mission of the NFMHC is to connect and catalyze stakeholders to cultivate an accessible life span behavioral health system to improve mental wellness for our community. It is open to all behavioral healthcare stakeholders in our community, including…
$64,066 spentof which $22,613 as grants1% of program spendingThe Summit Counseling Network on behalf of CURE
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Counseling Program
$25,627 spentof which $9,045 as grants$130,416 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,824,207.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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 $849k to $2.4M (+177%).
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 11% · 2021 10% · 2022 14% · 2023 3% · 2024 5% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
42% of The Summit Counseling Center Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Rev David Smith
Executive Director
Board chair
J David Smith
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 15 funders, grant income fell $422k → $287k.
14 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 The Summit Counseling Center Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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
The Summit Counseling Center Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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
83% 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 The Summit Counseling Center Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 42% · 2019 43% · 2020 36% · 2021 22% · 2022 25% · 2023 17% — 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
33% of The Summit Counseling Center Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
63% of The Summit Counseling Center 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 $871k that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Against its field
The Summit Counseling Center Inc has grown faster than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like The Summit Counseling Center 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Mount Pisgah Church · exempt
- A Beacon of Hope Women's Center Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Summit Counseling Center 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 The Summit Counseling Center Inc?
- The Summit Counseling Center Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,339,440 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($434,200). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Summit Counseling Center Inc have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $2,339,440 in grants to The Summit Counseling Center Inc, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Summit Counseling Center Inc?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $434,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Summit Counseling Center Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 43 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