Michigan · Private foundation
Saga Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2024
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $310,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 37
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Total assets, FY2024
- $13M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 16% of the organizations Saga Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k 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 | 38 | $1.9M | 11% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $1.8M | 16% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $2.3M | 25% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $1.9M | 27% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $1.3M | 14% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $1.6M | 45% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $1.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jobtrain Inc | $1,277,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Kalamazoo College | $1,041,800 | 6 | 0% |
| The Henry L Stimson Center | $1,025,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Future Talent of Silicon Valley | $711,863 | 5 | 15% |
| Redwood City Police Activities League Inc | $656,500 | 7 | 21% |
| Pga Tour First Tee Foundation Inc | $615,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Cathedral City | $435,120 | 7 | 21% |
| Positive Coaching Alliance | $346,800 | 6 | 1% |
| San Mateo County Health Foundation | $336,000 | 4 | 9% |
| Childhelp Inc | $336,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 55 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($297k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Saga Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 53 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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Atkinson Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Sand Hill Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Tides Foundation · Danford Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
How this is measured
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About Saga Foundation
- How much does Saga Foundation give?
- Saga Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $1,947,530 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Saga Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (19%), International (13%), Health (13%).
- Who are Saga Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Jobtrain Inc ($1.3M), Kalamazoo College ($1.0M), The Henry L Stimson Center ($1.0M).
- Does Saga Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Saga Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Saga Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Atkinson Foundation, Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation.
- Where is Saga Foundation based?
- Saga Foundation is based in MI.
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