Hi Greg,
The XamGrid only shows summaries that will work with the associated data type of the column. In the case of this JSON sample, each column is dealing with string values so the summaries available are only the ones that can handle a string. The Sum or Average summaries won't know what to do with a string. So pretty much the only way to get a Sum or Average summary to show up is to either provide a strongly typed object which will only work if you know what JSON you are getting, or you can create a custom summary and do the calculation yourself, converting the JSON value into the appropriate datatype. I updated the sample to provide a custom summary.
Please keep in mind that the sample was made 2 years ago in VS2010 but I no longer have 2010 installed on my machine, only VS 2013. So this is what the sample is built in. I also made use of the Json.NET library to make deserializing the json a bit easier.