The Summit Foundation
Breckenridge, CO · EIN 74-2341399. Reported 386 grants totalling $11.8M to 163 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
163organizations funded
$15,000median reported grant
$11.8Mgranted, 2020-2023
69%of grantees funded again the next year
9%of dollars to its largest recipient
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For The Summit Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a public foundation -- a grantmaker that raises its money from many sources rather than from one donor (NTEE T30Z).
- How spread out its giving is. 163 distinct organizations, with 9% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 69% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $35,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $410,833. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summit County Family Resource Center | Silverthorne, CO | $1,010,214 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Summit Community Care Clinic Inc | Frisco, CO | $690,500 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Keystone Science School Inc | Keystone, CO | $610,944 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Building Hope Summit County | Breckenridge, CO | $349,205 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Lake Dillon Foundation for the Performing Arts | Silverthorne, CO | $348,500 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Advocates for Victims of Assault Inc | Frisco, CO | $341,746 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Summit County Schools | Frisco, CO | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center | Breckenridge, CO | $239,200 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| High Country Conservation Center | Frisco, CO | $230,250 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Summit County Mountain Mentors | Frisco, CO | $228,600 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Smart Bellies | Breckenridge, CO | $219,100 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Breckenridge Creative Arts | Breckenridge, CO | $214,524 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Summit County Child Care Resource & Referral Agency | Dillon, CO | $206,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Summit County Rescue Group Inc | Breckenridge, CO | $195,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Colorado Mountain College Foundation Inc | Glenwood Spgs, CO | $189,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| CASA of the Continental Divide | Dillon, CO | $187,750 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Zoomers Inc | Dillon, CO | $185,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Starting Hearts Inc | Avon, CO | $184,524 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| National Repertory Orchestra Inc Colorado Philharmonic | Breckenridge, CO | $171,700 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Team Summit | Copper Mountain, CO | $170,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Timberline Adult Day Services | Frisco, CO | $155,450 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Sos Outreach | Avon, CO | $154,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Breckenridge Music | Breckenridge, CO | $147,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Cycle Effect | Eagle, CO | $131,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Summit County Preschool | Frisco, CO | $125,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Summit Education Foundation | Breckenridge, CO | $123,196 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| High Country Soccer Assoc | Silverthorne, CO | $120,695 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Friends of the Dillon Ranger District a Co Nonprofit Corp | Silverthorne, CO | $120,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Bethany Partners | Frisco, CO | $119,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Backstage Theatre Inc | Breckenridge, CO | $117,250 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Breckenridge Film Festival | Breckenridge, CO | $110,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Timberline Learning Center | Breckenridge, CO | $110,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| S C Y H Inc | Breckenridge, CO | $105,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Mountain Dreamers | Frisco, CO | $104,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Colorado Learning Connections | Frisco, CO | $103,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Friends of Colorado Avalanche Information Center | Evergreen, CO | $103,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Columbine Community Foundation for Grand County | Winter Park, CO | $101,230 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Christ Lutheran Early Childhood Development Program Inc | Frisco, CO | $100,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Summit County Library Foundation | Frisco, CO | $95,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| 4060302 Summit County Youth Ll | Frisco, CO | $91,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Habitat for Humanity International Inc | Silverthorne, CO | $85,800 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Summit County Community and Senior Center | Frisco, CO | $85,000 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Carriage House of Summit County Inc | Breckenridge, CO | $84,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Mountain Top Childrens Museum Inc | Breckenridge, CO | $83,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Road to Hope of Haiti | Denver, CO | $70,500 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Treetop Child Advocacy Center | Frisco, CO | $70,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Christ Lutheran Church | Breckenridge, CO | $65,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Doctors to the World | Breckenridge, CO | $65,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Boys and Girls Club of South Park Inc | Fairplay, CO | $60,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Summit County Rotary Charitable Fund | Frisco, CO | $57,150 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| League for Animals and People of the Summit | Frisco, CO | $56,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Colorado Open Lands | Lakewood, CO | $52,164 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Summit High School | Frisco, CO | $52,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Copper Mountain Resort Associaton | Copper Mountain, CO | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Full Circle of Lake County Inc | Leadville, CO | $50,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Grand County Rural Health Network Inc | Hot Slphr Spr, CO | $50,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Rocky Mountain Rural Health Inc | Fairplay, CO | $50,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Silverthorne Childcare | Breckenridge, CO | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Blue River Horse Center Inc | Silverthorne, CO | $49,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Summit County Community and Senior Center | Frisco, CO | $47,500 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Wildlands Restoration Volunteers | Longmont, CO | $43,660 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Grand Beginnings | Granby, CO | $43,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Summit Historical Society | Dillon, CO | $43,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Summit Rugby | Breckenridge, CO | $41,900 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Knights of Columbus | Dillon, CO | $41,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Summit County Youth and Family | Frisco, CO | $40,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Advocates of Lake County Inc | Leadville, CO | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America | S Yarmouth, MA | $40,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Sanyuka Childrens Ministries | Medina, OH | $40,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Mosquito Range Heritage Initiative | Alma, CO | $39,400 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Domus Pacis Family Respite Inc | Frisco, CO | $38,756 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Little Red Schoolhouse | Breckenridge, CO | $37,500 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| South Park Food Bnk | Fairplay, CO | $36,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| St Jude Childrens Research Hospital Inc | Memphis, TN | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Summit Nordic Ski Club | Frisco, CO | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| The Summit Foundation | Breckenridge, CO | $34,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Colorado Fourteeners Initiative | Lakewood, CO | $34,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Far View Horse Rescue | Breckenridge, CO | $33,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Catholic Health Initiatives Colorado Foundation | Phoenix, AZ | $31,250 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Cloud City Conservation Center | Leadville, CO | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Lake County School District | Leadville, CO | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Rocky Mountain Youth Corps | Steamboat Spr, CO | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Summit Colorado Interfaith Council | Dillon, CO | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Community Foundation | Boulder, CO | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Breckenridge Montessori Inc | Breckenridge, CO | $29,125 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| The Colorado Trail Foundation | Poncha Spgs, CO | $29,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Careers in Construction Colorado | Colorado Spgs, CO | $28,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| South Park Rec Foundation | Fairplay, CO | $27,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Summit County Early Intervention | Frisco, CO | $26,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Summit Huts and Trails Association | Breckenridge, CO | $26,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Park County Senior Coalition | Fairplay, CO | $24,800 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Northwest Colorado Center for Independence | Steamboat Spr, CO | $24,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Summit School District | Frisco, CO | $24,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | Aurora, CO | $23,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Park County Search and Rescue | Bailey, CO | $23,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Summit Lost Pet Rescue Inc | Dillon, CO | $23,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Wildflower Nature School | Silverthorne, CO | $23,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Peak School | Frisco, CO | $22,500 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Lrsh Inc Colorado Non-Profit Corporation | Breckenridge, CO | $22,480 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Team Breckenridge Sports Club Inc | Breckenridge, CO | $21,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Cafe Food Rescue | Breckenridge, CO | $21,440 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Father Dyer United Methodist Church | Breckenridge, CO | $21,250 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Breckenridge History | Breckenridge, CO | $21,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Courageous Faces Foundation | Centennial, CO | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Grand County Higher Education | Winter Park, CO | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Habitat for Humanity International Inc | Americus, GA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Morning Star Child Care | Leadville, CO | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Mountain Family Center | Granby, CO | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Spare for Change Inc | Eagle, CO | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Summit Tigers American Legion Baseball Inc | Frisco, CO | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Colorado Foundation | Denver, CO | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc | Baltimore, MD | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Park County School District Re-2 | Fairplay, CO | $19,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Mountain Family Center | Granby, CO | $18,500 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Eagle Summit Wilderness Alliance | Frisco, CO | $17,800 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Early Intervention | Frisco, CO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lake County Community Fund | Leadville, CO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Venice Arts | Marina Dl Rey, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Summit in Honduras Inc | Breckenridge, CO | $14,200 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| South Park Early Childhood | Fairplay, CO | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Growing Together | Golden, CO | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Summit County Mountain Bike Alliance | Frisco, CO | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Blue River Watershed Group | Silverthorne, CO | $11,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Reach Out and Read Colorado | Denver, CO | $11,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Developmental Disabilities Resource Center | Lakewood, CO | $10,480 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Copper Community Childcare | Copper Mountain, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Grand County Higher Education | Winter Park, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Lady Savant Foundation Inc | Franklin Lks, NJ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lake County School District - Project Dream | Leadville, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lake County School District R-1 | Leadville, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Noticeability Inc | Cambridge, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Project Bike Tech | Colorado Spgs, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Recovery Resources | Aspen, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St George Episcopal Mission | Leadville, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Vincent General Hospital District | Leadville, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Summit Musicians Relief Fund | Silverthorne, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Summit Public Radio and Tv Inc | Dillon, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ukrainians of Colorado | Lakewood, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Girls on the Run of the Grand Valley | Grand Junction, CO | $9,700 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Park County Creative Alliance | Fairplay, CO | $8,600 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Mountain Area Land Trust | Evergreen, CO | $8,125 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| More to Life | Breckenridge, CO | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Dyc Junior Sailing Club Inc | Dillon, CO | $7,700 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| 10TH Mountain Lacrosse Inc | Dillon, CO | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Dillon Valley Elementary School | Dillon, CO | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Little Sisters Fund Inc | Hailey, ID | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum | Leadville, CO | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Steadman Philippon Research Institute | Vail, CO | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Summit Concert Band | Frisco, CO | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Summit Youth Sports Inc | Dillon, CO | $6,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Friends Service Committee | Philadelphia, PA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Eagle Valley Community Foundation | Vail, CO | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| PTA Colorado Congress | Breckenridge, CO | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Shs Ptso Prom Fund Inc | Frisco, CO | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Unsheltered in Summit Inc | Dillon, CO | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Vail Health Services Foundation | Vail, CO | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| American National Red Cross | Washington, DC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Colorado Farm to Table Inc | Salida, CO | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Friends of the Lower Blue River | Silverthorne, CO | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Friends of the Utah Avalanche Forecast Center | Salt Lake City, UT | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Grand County Water Information Network | Grand Lake, CO | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Summit County Coroner's Office | Frisco, CO | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Utah Food Bank | S Salt Lake, UT | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
106 of 163 (65%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
It also reported 4 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Keystone Science School Inc
PROGRAM, GENERAL OPERATING - Building Hope
PROGRAM, GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT - Breckenridge Backstage Theatre Inc
PROGRAM, GNERAL OPERATING - Lake County Community Fund
PROGRAM SUPPORT- HUNGER RELIEF - Food Bank of the Rockies
PROGRAM SUPPORT- SUMMIT COUNTY - Summit Historic Society
PROGRAM/GENERAL OPERATING
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 120 of 163 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 110 | $3,720,831 | $20,000 |
| 2021 | 94 | $3,060,897 | $15,000 |
| 2022 | 86 | $2,786,508 | $14,250 |
| 2023 | 96 | $2,219,372 | $12,250 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
98% of its giving went to organizations in Colorado. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
Colorado Gives Foundation78 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund55 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc49 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program34 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc30 shared recipientsThe Denver Foundation24 shared recipients
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Colorado.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Summit Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 4000, Breckenridge, CO, 80424.
EIN 74-2341399 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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