Summit Ranch Inc.

Summit Ranch Inc. (EIN 84-4354432, Shawnee, KS) is not a grantmaking foundation, and grant seekers should recalibrate expectations before investing outreach time here. The database record classifies it under NTEE F30 (Mental Health) with a Health category tag and a database flag of `is_grantmaker: false` — and that flag checks out against every independent source reviewed. Its own site, its Form 990 activity, and three separate news profiles (Johnson County Post, the Shawnee Chamber of Commerce, Fox4KC) all describe the same thing: a 501(c)(3) direct-service clinical operator delivering outpatient youth mental-health treatment, executive-function coaching, and equine-assisted therapy to children ages 8-18 on a 103-acre campus in western Shawnee. There is no grants page, no LOI process, no RFP calendar, and no history of the organization disbursing sub-grants to other nonprofits. The database's `accepting_applications: true` flag almost certainly reflects openness to client/family service inquiries and referrals — not openness to grant proposals — and `application_instructions` is literally recorded as `__no_filing__`, meaning no such process exists in the underlying 990 data at all. The org's $7.87M asset base (per its most recent filing) stems primarily from a single large 2022 contribution of roughly $8.5M — almost certainly the estate/property gift tied to its 103-acre campus, originally built in 2010 by Ron Deffenbaugh, Sr. — not from patient, methodical foundation-style endowment building. Leadership is thin and clinically oriented: Executive Director Jordanne Ehrhart moved into the role from Clinical Director and still practices as a therapist, which is typical of a service nonprofit, not a professional grants staff. First-time researchers who found this entity through an asset-size or NTEE-category screen should treat it as a false positive for funding purposes. The only legitimate 'approach' vectors are: (1) referring a family for clinical services, (2) proposing an event sponsorship or in-kind partnership tied to its annual fundraising gala, or (3) exploring a referral partnership if your organization also serves youth mental-health clients in Johnson County, KS.

Because Summit Ranch Inc. does not operate a grants-out program, the standard grant-size metrics (median, range, program-area split) this report template calls for do not exist and should not be estimated. What the filings do show is a clear expenditure and balance-sheet trend, useful for anyone evaluating the organization's financial health as a service partner or referral source. Total revenue ran $752,552 (2023), then rose to $868,043 (2024), then fell to $672,919 (2025) — a one-year rise followed by a 22.5% pullback in the most recent filing year. Expenses have outpaced revenue in each of the last three years: $838,454 against $752,552 in 2023, $955,800 against $868,043 in 2024, and $800,827 against $672,919 in 2025 — a sustained operating deficit drawing down reserves rather than one-off overspending. Net assets have slid accordingly, from $8,092,152 (2023) to $8,004,395 (2024) to $7,868,141 (2025), a roughly 2.8% cumulative decline over two years. The single outlier year is 2022, when revenue spiked to $8,538,500 against just $417,499 in expenses — consistent with a large one-time contribution (most plausibly the ranch property/estate gift) rather than programmatic growth, since 2021 revenue was only $313,000 and 2020 revenue $267,800, both far smaller and roughly matched to expenses. Program/charitable-service spending has consistently represented 71-77% of total expenses across the filing years reviewed, with the balance going to administration and fundraising, including compensated clinical and program staff earning in the $53,000-$100,000 range; board/leadership roles are described as unpaid volunteer positions. In short: this is a mid-size, donation-dependent direct-service nonprofit with a large but static asset base, currently spending down reserves to sustain clinical programming — not a fund with capital available to award. For context on scale, the $7.87M asset figure is disproportionately large relative to the $800,827 in annual expenses it supports — a ratio (roughly 10:1) typical of an organization sitting on a donated fixed capital asset (its 103-acre campus, 40,000-square-foot recreation center, and stable facilities) rather than a liquid, income-generating endowment built for programmatic re-granting. That distinction — capital-heavy, cash-flow-light — is itself a useful signal for anyone assessing whether an organization that looks like a well-funded foundation on paper is actually one in practice.

The database grouped Summit Ranch Inc. with five other Health-category organizations of similar asset size, but this peer set was built purely from asset-size and NTEE-category proximity in the underlying dataset — it does not itself confirm which peers, if any, are active grantmakers. That caveat matters: at least one peer (Harm Reduction Therapeutics Inc.) is publicly known as a nonprofit direct-service/product organization rather than a funder, suggesting the same 'false positive' risk that applies to Summit Ranch may recur across this list; the other three were not independently re-verified in this research pass.

Asset sizes across this cluster are tightly banded ($6.0M-$8.3M), which is why the dataset grouped them, but asset size alone says nothing about grantmaking activity. Grant seekers should independently verify each peer's actual grants-out history (via its own Form 990 Part XV or Schedule I) before treating any of them — including Summit Ranch — as a funding prospect, rather than relying on category/size proximity alone.

The most substantive recent activity is organizational rather than programmatic. A March 19, 2026 Shawnee Chamber of Commerce profile documents Jordanne Ehrhart's move from Clinical Director to Executive Director, alongside a formal Chamber welcome (ribbon-cutting and AM Connects networking event) and the organization's receipt of the Mayor's Christmas Tree Fund award from Shawnee Mayor Sandifer — a local-government recognition, not a grant. On April 16, 2026, Summit Ranch held its 1st Annual 'Champions for Summit Ranch' gala, its first formal large-scale fundraiser, featuring Kansas City sports-community guests and a performance by musician Max Cooper, a 2025 contestant on 'The Voice'; proceeds were earmarked to expand youth mental-health programming and sustain care for existing client families, with tickets and sponsorships sold through a Givebutter campaign page. This follows a 2024 Johnson County Post feature describing continued build-out of the 103-acre campus — its 40,000-square-foot all-weather recreation center, 5,000-square-foot riding stable, and animal-assisted programming (including horses used in equine-assisted learning) — and staff expansion since the facility's 2023 opening. No new grant program, RFP, or funding-priority announcement was found in any source reviewed. Financially, the most recent filing available (fiscal year 2025) shows continued deficit operation, with the organization drawing on reserves built primarily from a 2022 contribution windfall rather than from new large gifts in 2024 or 2025. The clearest forward-looking signal is that the April gala was explicitly billed as the '1st Annual,' implying management expects to repeat it on a yearly cadence as its primary growth-funding mechanism going forward.

There is no grant application process to optimize here, so tips are organized by what a reader is actually likely to need. If you are a nonprofit that arrived at Summit Ranch Inc. while screening 'foundations' by asset size or NTEE Health category, the single most useful action is to stop and re-verify: check the entity's own Form 990 Schedule I (grants and other assistance to organizations) before spending time on an LOI — Summit Ranch's filings and public materials show no such schedule with meaningful sub-grant activity, consistent with its `is_grantmaker: false` flag. If you are a family or referring clinician seeking services for a child aged 8-18 with ADHD, anxiety, or emotional-regulation needs, the effective channel is the website's 'Pricing + Insurance' and appointment pages, not a written proposal; confirm insurance-network status by phone before scheduling, since the org accepts both insurance and self-pay. If you represent another Johnson County/Kansas City-area youth-services nonprofit and want a referral partnership (e.g., co-referring families, joint programming, or shared equine-assisted-learning resources), reach out directly — Summit Ranch's own growth pattern (staff expansion since 2023, a first-ever gala in April 2026) suggests it is actively building local relationships and might be receptive to warm, in-person introductions via the Shawnee Chamber of Commerce, which it has visibly engaged with (AM Connects, ribbon-cutting). If you are a business or individual donor rather than a grant-seeking nonprofit, the live channel is the Givebutter page tied to the 'Champions for Summit Ranch' gala — sponsorship tiers and ticket sales are its primary solicited-funding mechanism, not a grants RFP. The most common mistake to avoid: treating a large IRS-reported asset balance ($7.9M) as evidence of grantmaking capacity. Here it is evidence of a single 2022 contribution (likely the ranch property/estate gift) being spent down over time to cover a structural three-year operating deficit — the opposite of a funder with capital to deploy.