Form 990 for tax year 2025

Totals

Total revenue

$109,627

Total expenses

$101,789

Contributions and grants received

$94,832

Grants paid

$56,875

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$14,795

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$581,105

Total liabilities, end of year

$0

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$581,105

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$82,706

Management and general expenses

$12,142

Fundraising expenses

$6,941

Program service expenses (Part III)

$82,706

Program services were 81.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2025

• CANCER RESEARCH GRANTS: PEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH RECEIVES JUST 4% OF FEDERAL CANCER RESEARCH FUNDING, WITH AN EVEN SMALLER FRACTION ALLOCATED TO ULTRA-RARE CHILDHOOD MALIGNANCIES. TO ADDRESS THIS PROFOUND FUNDING DEFICIT, SUMMER'S WAY FOUNDATION DEPLOYS A MULTI-TIERED FRAMEWORK TO ACCELERATE TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH. WE CO-FUND DIRECTLY A GRANT TO EARLY- CAREER SCIENTISTS VIA OUR 50,000 YOUNG INVESTIGATOR RESEARCH GRANTS TO SUPPORT INNOVATIVE, INVESTIGATOR-INITIATED SCIENCE. FURTHERMORE, WE PARTNER WITH THE BEAT CHILDHOOD CANCER RESEARCH CONSORTIUM TO CO-FUND AN ACTIVE RHABDOMYOSARCOMA RESEARCH DIVISION MANAGING CRITICAL PHASE I AND II CLINICAL TRIALS. WE ALSO PROVIDE VITAL ANNUAL GRANT FUNDING TO THE SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA DIVISION OF THE CHILDREN'S ONCOLOGY GROUP.

  Expenses $67,423 · Grants $46,600

• SUMMER'S WAY FOUNDATION OPERATES A DEDICATED PATIENT AND FAMILY SUPPORT INITIATIVE TO MITIGATE THE EMOTIONAL AND ECONOMICAL TRAUMA OF PEDIATRIC CANCER. WE ADMINISTER OUR SPECIALIZED CUSTOM MEDICAL WIG PROGRAM AND NEWLY LAUNCHED ADOLESCENT AND YOUNG ADULT (AYA) PROGRAM COMPREHENSIVELY ACROSS ROCKY MOUNTAIN HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN, CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, AND BRENT'S PLACE. BY SUPPLYING CUSTOM CRANIAL PROSTHETICS AT ZERO COST TO YOUTH FACING TREATMENT-INDUCED HAIR LOSS, WE PROTECT YOUNG PATIENTS' SELF-ESTEEM AND IDENTITY. SIMULTANEOUSLY, OUR AYA PROGRAM ELIMINATES SOCIAL ISOLATION BY CREATING TARGETED PEER COHORTS AND SHARED ACTIVITIES FOR CANCER SURVIVORS AND THOSE UNDERGOING ACTIVE TREATMENT ACROSS ALL THREE OF THESE INSTITUTIONAL FACILITIES, EASING PROFOUND FINANCIAL & PSYCHOSOCIAL BURDENS.

  Expenses $10,275 · Grants $10,275

• SUMMER'S WAY FOUNDATION ADMINISTERS THE HEALING THROUGH THE ARTS PROGRAM, DELIVERING INDIVIDUALIZED AND GROUP ART THERAPY SESSIONS TO PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY PATIENTS AT ROCKY MOUNTAIN HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN AND BRENT'S PLACE. LED BY A REGISTERED ART THERAPIST, THESE CLINICAL INTERVENTIONS UTILIZE MULTIPLE ARTISTIC MEDIUMS TO HELP CHILDREN COPE WITH THE SEVERE ISOLATION AND PHYSICAL CHALLENGES ACCOMPANYING AGGRESSIVE CANCER TREATMENTS AND EXTENDED HOSPITAL STAYS. THE PROGRAM ACTIVELY FOSTERS SELF EXPRESSION AND VITAL SOCIAL INTERACTION. FEEDBACK FROM PARENTS AND MEDICAL STAFF REMAINS OVERWHELMINGLY POSITIVE, DOCUMENTING A DEMONSTRABLE REDUCTION IN CLINICAL ANXIETY, DEPRESSION MARKERS, AND PATIENT PAIN MEDICATION REQUIREMENTS AMONG PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS.

  Expenses $5,008

As filed on the 2025 return.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

• MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER

  $25,000

  CANCER RESEARCH

• UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

  $20,000

  CANCER RESEARCH

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2025

Filed

14 September 2026

IRS schema version

2025v4.0

Source object

202622589349301402

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