The Greater Sum, Inc.
The Greater Sum Foundation enables early-stage innovators to create new solutions to old problems by providing the tools, connections, and assistance they need to realize effective solutions to significant and ongoing problems around the world.
About The Greater Sum, Inc.
The Greater Sum, Inc. (doing business as The Greater Sum Foundation) is a Jacksonville, Florida–based private foundation and nonprofit accelerator that supports early-stage, scalable nonprofits through a virtual incubator, pitch competitions, donor-matching, pro-bono subject-matter expertise, and capacity-building programming. The organization was founded in 2016 and is tax-exempt; its EIN (81-2326204) is confirmed on its Form 990-PF filings and state corporate records and matches the organization operating thegreatersum.org.
In the last 2–3 years The Greater Sum has expanded its signature programs (including the Virtual Incubator and the Promising Practices Accelerator), reported multi-hundred-thousand-dollar charitable disbursements on its 990-PF filings, and published impact metrics on its website (including number of incubator graduates and total award dollars). The organization positions itself as a funder-plus-capacity-builder focused on community, education, environment, and health.
Notable achievements
Virtual Incubator graduates
Completed virtual incubator for early-stage nonprofits with 156 nonprofit founders reported as program graduates and high participant satisfaction (reported participant recommendation rate of 96%).
Grantmaking scale
Reported more than $562,000 awarded to early-stage nonprofits across its programs and recorded annual charitable disbursements in the low-to-mid six figures on recent Form 990-PF filings (charitable disbursements of approximately $227k in 2023 and $233k in 2024).
2025 Promising Practices Accelerator
Ran the 2025 Promising Practices Accelerator, which supported cohort nonprofits in strengthening fundraising and raised over $22,000 for participating organizations.
At a glance
- Total assets
- $1.5M
- Tax status
- 501(c)(3)
- EIN
- 81-2326204
- Location
- Jacksonville, FL
- Website
- thegreatersum.org
- On Mahalo since
- May 2026
Financial figures from the IRS Business Master File, the IRS’s registry of tax-exempt organizations.
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