Summit Charitable Foundation
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About Summit Charitable Foundation
We seek to promote the health and well-being of the planet — its people and its natural environment.
Focus Areas
Gender equalityWomen and girlsGirls' education and empowermentSexual and reproductive health, rights, and justicePreventing child, early, and forced marriageYouth leadershipCivil society strengtheningOcean conservationOcean biodiversityMarine protected areasSustainable fisheriesMarine habitat restorationClimate changeTransportation
About Summit Charitable Foundation
The Summit Charitable Foundation Inc backs two clear clusters of work: the Mesoamerican Reef and equality for women and girls. In the reef portfolio, it uses multi-year support, general operating support, and program support for conservation, fisheries, water quality, and legal protection. One of its largest recent commitments went to Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide for applying legal tools to protect the Mesoamerican Reef across 2023-2025, showing an interest in policy and systems change alongside field conservation. The foundation also funds women’s and girls’ leadership and health. Recent grants include support for a youth leadership fund in Central America and gender-justice work through Global Fund for Children, as well as services for rural indigenous women in Guatemala. Those awards sit next to grants for marine groups such as Mesoamerican Reef Fund, Coral Reef Alliance, Healthy Reefs for Healthy People Inc, and Oceana Inc, which points to a grantmaker that pairs place-based environmental work with equity-oriented human development. The portfolio includes repeated support across years for several organizations, suggesting ongoing partnerships rather than isolated awards.
What Summit Charitable Foundation Funds
In marine conservation, the foundation supports work on reef resilience, fisheries, protected areas, and water quality. It gave $225,000 to International Community Foundation for improving fisheries in the Mesoamerican Reef and water quality in the Mayan Aquifer, and $150,000 to World Wildlife Fund for buffer zones in key watersheds to reduce agricultural runoff into the reef. Water quality also appears in grants tied to the Motagua River and Belize. The foundation awarded $175,000 to Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente (aida) for improving the water quality and health of the Motagua River, and $175,000 to Oceana Inc for work in Belize. On the women-and-girls side, it gave $150,000 to Fundacion Para El Ecodesarrollo Y La Conservacion (fundaeco) for sexual and reproductive health services for rural indigenous women in Guatemala, and $150,000 to Global Fund for Children for boosting youth leadership for gender justice in Central America.
How Summit Charitable Foundation Gives
Typical grants cluster around mid-sized awards: the 25th percentile is $20,000, the median is $50,000, and the 75th percentile is $82,500. Recent awards show a mix of operating support, general program support, and project-specific grants, often with multi-year terms such as 2023-2025, 2024-2027, and 2025-2027. Several organizations appear across more than one year in the recent-grants list, including Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide, Mesoamerican Reef Fund, Coral Reef Alliance, Healthy Reefs for Healthy People Inc, Oceana Inc, Smart Growth America, Seattle International Foundation, Urban Sustainability Directors Network, and Fundacion Para El Ecodesarrollo Y La Conservacion. The foundation is a regular funder and does not fund individuals or make program-related investments.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$7.3M
Total Assets
$159M
Total Revenue
$17.2M
Total Expenses
$12.6M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $20K and $83K, with a median of $50K.
25th Percentile
$20K
Median
$50K
75th Percentile
$83K
Geographic Reach
National20 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Where Summit Charitable Foundation Funds
Top 9 recipient countries by grant volume for Summit Charitable Foundation.
| Rank | Country | Grants | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United StatesDomestic | 325 | $20.4M | 78.3% |
| 2 | Guatemala |
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