Funding search · EIN 474017008 · Califon, NJ

The Sumner Family Foundation

Name: The Sumner Family Foundation grants, 2022–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

72
grants reported: $9.1M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $15,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Give Directly3 grants · $2.6M
Community Food Bank of Nj3 grants · $1.4M
Innovations for Poverty3 grants · $1.3M
Bail Projects3 grants · $900,000
Freeworld2 grants · $800,000
Ahs Hospital3 grants · $450,000
Freedom House3 grants · $425,000
Tewksbury First Aid Squad2 grants · $225,000
Oxfam2 grants · $200,000
Newark Academy2 grants · $102,000

Giving over time

$2.0M

2022

$3.1M

2023

$4.0M

2024

Grant history

All 72 reported grants, largest first.

$1.0M
Give Directly · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$1.0M
Give Directly · New York, NY · 2023
General support
$750,000
Innovations for Poverty · New Haven, CT · 2024
General support
$650,000
Give Directly · New York, NY · 2022
General support
$550,000
Community Food Bank of Nj · Hillside, NJ · 2024
General support
$550,000
Community Food Bank of Nj · Hillside, NJ · 2023
General support
$500,000
Freeworld · San Jose, CA · 2023
General support
$325,000
Freedom House · Morristown, NJ · 2024
General support
$300,000
Bail Projects · Venice, CA · 2024
General support
$300,000
Freeworld · San Jose, CA · 2024
General support
$300,000
Bail Projects · Venice, CA · 2023
General support
$300,000
Bail Projects · Venice, CA · 2022
General support
$300,000
Community Food Bank of Nj · Hillside, NJ · 2022
General support
$250,000
Innovations for Poverty · New Haven, CT · 2023
General support
$250,000
Innovations for Poverty · New Haven, CT · 2022
General support
$215,000
Tewksbury First Aid Squad · Califon, NJ · 2024
General support
$150,000
Ahs Hospital · Morristown, NJ · 2024
General support
$150,000
Ahs Hospital · Morristown, NJ · 2023
General support
$150,000
Ahs Hospital · Morristown, NJ · 2022
General support
$100,000
Oxfam · Boston, MA · 2023
General support
$100,000
Oxfam · Boston, MA · 2022
General support
$75,000
Freedom House · Morristown, NJ · 2023
General support
$51,000
Newark Academy · Livingston, NJ · 2024
General support
$51,000
Newark Academy · Livingston, NJ · 2023
General support
$51,000
Trustees of Newark Academy · Livingston, NJ · 2022
General support
$40,000
Great Swamp Watershed Association · Morristown, NJ · 2024
General support
$30,000
Authors League Fund · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
General support
$30,000
Datakind · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
General support
$30,000
Young Audiences of Nj and Eastern Pa · Princeton, NJ · 2024
General support
$30,000
Authors League Fund · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
General support
$30,000
Authors League Fund · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
General support
$30,000
Young Audiences of Nj and Eastern Pa · Princeton, NJ · 2022
General support
$25,000
Freedom House · Morristown, NJ · 2022
General support
$20,000
Far Hills Country Day School · Far Hills, NJ · 2022
General support
$17,000
Media Art Xploration · San Francisco, CA · 2024
General support
$15,000
Crossroads4hope · Bedminster, NJ · 2024
General support
$15,000
First Responders Childrens Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$15,000
From Houses To Homes - Guatemala · Mount Tabor, NJ · 2024
General support
$15,000
Joyful Heart Foundation · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
General support
$15,000
Kent Place School · Summit, NJ · 2024
General support
$15,000
Lifecamp · Morristown, NJ · 2024
General support
$15,000
Mane Stream · Oldwick, NJ · 2024
General support
$15,000
New Jersey Conservation Foundation · Far Hills, NJ · 2024
General support
$15,000
Oldwick Fire Company · Oldwick, NJ · 2024
General support
$15,000
Peo Foundation · Des Moines, IA · 2024
General support
$15,000
Preschool Advantage · Morristown, NJ · 2024
General support
$15,000
Raritan Headwaters Association · Gladstone, NJ · 2024
General support
$15,000
St Jude Children'S Research Hosital · Memphis, TN · 2024
General support
$15,000
Tewksbury Land Trust · Oldwick, NJ · 2024
General support
$15,000
The Somo Project · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$10,000
Brady Life Camp · Tewksbury, NJ · 2023
General support
$10,000
Datakind · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
General support
$10,000
Mane Stream · Oldwick, NJ · 2023
General support
$10,000
Media Art Xploration · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General support
$10,000
New Jersey Conservation Foundation · Far Hills, NJ · 2023
General support
$10,000
Oldwick Fire Company · Oldwick, NJ · 2023
General support
$10,000
Tewksbury First Aid Squad · Califon, NJ · 2023
General support
$10,000
The Somo Project · New York, NY · 2023
General support
$10,000
Datakind · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
General support
$10,000
Lifecamp · Morristown, NJ · 2022
General support
$10,000
Media Art Xploration · San Francisco, CA · 2022
General support
$10,000
New Jersey Conservation Foundation · Far Hills, NJ · 2022
General support
$10,000
Oldwick Fire Company · Oldwick, NJ · 2022
General support
$10,000
The Somo Project · New York, NY · 2022
General support
$10,000
World Central Kitchen · Washington, DC · 2022
General support
$5,000
Kent Place School · Summit, NJ · 2023
General support
$5,000
Raritan Watershed Association · Bedminster, NJ · 2023
General support
$5,000
St Jude Children'S Research Hosital · Memphis, TN · 2023
General support
$5,000
Tewksbury Land Trust · Oldwick, NJ · 2023
General support
$5,000
Wounded Warriors Project · New York, NY · 2023
General support
$5,000
Raitan Headwaters Association · Gladstone, NJ · 2022
General support
$2,500
Tewksbury Land Trust · Oldwick, NJ · 2022
General support

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.