Washington · Public charity
Puget Sound Sage
PUGET SOUND SAGE combines research, innovative public policy and organizing to ensure all people have an affordable place to live, a good job, a clean environment, and access to public transportation.
- $152k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2024
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $150,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 14
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.2M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Puget Sound Sage funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 1 | $150k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $237k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $484k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $401k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $130k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $253k | 71% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $141k | 75% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $148k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sage Leaders | $1,141,110 | 4 | 65% |
| Got Green | $253,500 | 3 | 18% |
| Northwest Film Forum | $85,242 | 3 | 5% |
| Transportation Choices Coalition | $75,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Rvc Seattle | $59,167 | 3 | 0% |
| Latino Community Fund of Washington State | $50,279 | 1 | 1% |
| Tenants Union of Washington St | $37,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Na'ah Illahee Fund | $33,175 | 2 | 1% |
| Somali Health Board | $28,616 | 3 | 1% |
| Cham Refugees Community | $28,450 | 3 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sage Leaders | $1,141,110 | 4 | 65% |
| Got Green | $253,500 | 3 | 18% |
| Northwest Film Forum | $85,242 | 3 | 5% |
| Transportation Choices Coalition | $75,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Rvc Seattle | $59,167 | 3 | 0% |
| Latino Community Fund of Washington State | $50,279 | 1 | 1% |
| Tenants Union of Washington St | $37,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Na'ah Illahee Fund | $33,175 | 2 | 1% |
| Somali Health Board | $28,616 | 3 | 1% |
| Cham Refugees Community | $28,450 | 3 | 1% |
| Filipino Community of Seattle | $28,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Unite Here Local 8 | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Co Lam Temple | $23,250 | 3 | 6% |
| Debre Mihret Kidus Michael Eot Ch | $20,700 | 2 | n/a |
| Al-Noor Islamic Center of Wa | $16,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Somali Community Services of Seattle | $16,000 | 2 | 5% |
| East African Community Services | $7,200 | 1 | 1% |
| Win Win Action | $7,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Entre Hermanos | $6,500 | 1 | 1% |
Where it is load-bearing
Puget Sound Sage supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Inatai Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Front and Centered · Philanthropy Northwest · School's Out Washington · Gates Foundation · United Way of King County · Equity in Education Coalition · Social Justice Fund Northwest · The Bullitt Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Colectiva Legal del Pueblo
How this is measured
About Puget Sound Sage
- How much does Puget Sound Sage give?
- Puget Sound Sage reported 1 grants totaling $151,511 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Puget Sound Sage fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (58%), Environment (13%), Community Improvement (9%).
- Who are Puget Sound Sage's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Sage Leaders ($1.1M), Got Green ($254k), Northwest Film Forum ($85k).
- Does Puget Sound Sage fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Puget Sound Sage?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Inatai Foundation, Seattle Foundation, Front and Centered.
- Where is Puget Sound Sage based?
- Puget Sound Sage is based in WA.
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