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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $581k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $792k
- $250k+2 grants · $560k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOBTRAIN INC | $310,000 |
| HENRY L STIMSON CENTER | $250,000 |
| PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC | $125,000 |
| POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE | $110,000 |
| REDWOOD CITY POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE | $102,000 |
| FREE GUITARS 4 KIDS | $100,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CATHEDRAL CITY | $80,120 |
| SAN MATEO COUNTY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| ONE LIFE COUNSELING CENTER | $55,000 |
| ABOUT-FACE | $50,000 |
| DEMOCRACY WORKS | $50,000 |
| CHILDREN NOW | $50,000 |
| SEEDS OF PEACE INC | $48,740 |
| RENAISSANCE ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER | $45,000 |
| KALAMAZOO COLLEGE | $44,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $752k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- JIJOBTRAIN INC7× · 2018–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +41%
- THTHE HENRY L STIMSON CENTER6× · 2019–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +104%
- FTFuture Talent of Silicon Valley5× · 2018–2022 · $712k · revenue +133%
Funded once
- SMSan Mateo County Community Colleges Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +77%
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANKone grant, 2018 · $50k
- FHFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +30%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Silicon Valley Defense Group convenes experts in technology, investment, and government for discussions on how to better collaborate between the various groups. The comments and topics are then published on our website to help educate and…
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Generations United Inc and the most unlike its peers is Global Security Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 71 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds JOBTRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE HENRY L STIMSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds Future Talent of Silicon Valley ↗
- Who funds Redwood City Police Activities League Inc ↗
- Who funds PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CATHEDRAL CITY ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds San Mateo County Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHILDHELP INC ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD CITY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ABOUT-FACE MEDIA LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR HEARING RESEARCH INC WEINGARTEN CHILDRENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ST HELENA AND CALISTOGA INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ONE LIFE COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Free Guitars 4 Kids ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN NOW ↗
- Who funds HILLER AVIATION INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP FOR TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILL-DEANZA COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAGICAL BRIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN MATEO COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GENERATIONS UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds NCGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEALTHIER KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY AND TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds San Mateo County Community Colleges Foundation ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Saga Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Warrior Canine Connection Inc — 5% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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