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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.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$310k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$2.3MInternational$1.6MHealth$1.5MYouth Development$1.5MEmployment$1.4MRecreation & Sports$880kCrime & Legal$657kHuman Services$628kOther$0
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $581k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $792k
  • $250k+2 grants · $560k
$30,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHILDHELP INC: $75k → 11%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC: $35k → 8%CHILDHELP INC: $51k → 11%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC: $35k → 8%CHILDHELP INC: $50k → 11%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC: $35k → 8%CHILDHELP INC: $50k → 11%CHILDREN NOW: $50k → 10%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC: $35k → 8%CHILDHELP INC: $50k → 11%CHILDREN NOW: $50k → 10%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC: $25k → 8%CHILDHELP INC: $25k → 11%CHILDREN NOW: $25k → 10%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC: $25k → 8%CHILDHELP INC: $25k → 11%CHILDREN NOW: $25k → 10%CHILDHELP INC: $10k → 11%CHILDREN NOW: $25k → 10%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC: $25k → 8%ADVENT GROUP MINISTRIES INC: $25k → 8%ADVENT GROUP MINISTRIES INC: $1k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
CA
CO
MD
AZ
TN
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 47 repeat orgs$331k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against -1% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
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Total granted

$12M
$297k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
-1%

Still filing today

89%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • JI
    JOBTRAIN INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +41%
  • TH
    THE HENRY L STIMSON CENTER
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +104%
  • FT
    Future Talent of Silicon Valley
    5× · 2018–2022 · $712k · revenue +133%

Funded once

  • SM
    San Mateo County Community Colleges Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +77%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • FH
    FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +30%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Golden Gate University

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…

Education
2
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

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…

Education
3
California Forward

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,…

Public Benefit
4
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
5
Silicon Valley Defense Working Group Co

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…

Education
6
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

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.

Philanthropy
7
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
8
Fielding Graduate University

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.

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9
The International School of San Francisco

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…

Education
10
The California Medical Innovations Institute Inc

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…

Education
11
California Dental Association Foundation

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.

Science & Tech
12
United States Naval Institute

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Generations United Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/53
Grantees still filing
40/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KALAMAZOO COLLEGE: $1,041,800 · EducationKALAMAZOO COLLEGEPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE: $346,800 · EducationPOSITIVE COACHING ALLI…REDWOOD CITY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $315,000 · EducationREDWOOD CITY LIBRARY F…FOUNDATION FOR HEARING RESEARCH INC WEINGARTEN CHILDRENS CENTER: $260,900 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR HEARING…President and Fellows of Middlebury College: $243,670 · EducationPresident and Fellows …MANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP FOR TOMORROW: $170,000 · EducationMANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP …+1 more: $50,000 · EducationTHE HENRY L STIMSON CENTER: $1,025,000 · InternationalTHE HENRY L S…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $225,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS…SEEDS OF PEACE INC: $148,740 · InternationalSEEDS OF PEAC…+2 more: $40,000 · InternationalFuture Talent of Silicon Valley: $711,863 · Recreation & SportsFuture Talent…PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC: $615,000 · Recreation & SportsPGA TOUR FIRS…MAGICAL BRIDGE FOUNDATION: $105,000 · Recreation & SportsMAGICAL BRIDG…+1 more: $250 · Recreation & SportsJOBTRAIN INC: $1,277,000 · EmploymentJOBTRAIN IN…CHILDHELP INC: $336,000 · Human ServicesCHILDHELP…ABOUT-FACE MEDIA LITERACY INC: $277,000 · Human ServicesABOUT-FAC…WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC: $215,000 · Human ServicesWARRIOR C…CHILDREN NOW: $175,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN …+1 more: $26,000 · Human ServicesSan Mateo County Health Foundation: $336,000 · OtherSan Mateo County Health FoundationRedwood City Police Activities League Inc: $656,500 · OtherRedwood City Police Activities Leag…ONE LIFE COUNSELING CENTER: $215,000 · OtherONE LIFE COUNSELING CENTERALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $203,000 · OtherFree Guitars 4 Kids: $200,000 · OtherHILLER AVIATION INSTITUTE: $175,000 · OtherRenaissance Entrepreneurship Center: $253,500 · OtherRenaissance Entrepreneurship CenterFOOTHILL-DEANZA COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATION: $130,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $225,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEYTEAM RUBICON INC: $200,000 · OtherDEMOCRACY WORKS INC: $150,000 · OtherWOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS: $150,000 · Other+33 more: $968,050 · Other+33 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CATHEDRAL CITY: $435,120 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ST HELENA AND CALISTOGA INC: $240,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA: $45,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $1,750 · Youth Development
Education$2,428,170International$1,438,740Recreation & Sports$1,432,113Employment$1,277,000Human Services$1,029,000Other$3,862,050Youth Development$721,870

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJOBTRAIN INC: $1,277,000 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetKALAMAZOO COLLEGE: $1,041,800 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HENRY L STIMSON CENTER: $1,025,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetFuture Talent of Silicon Valley: $711,863 over 5y, 15% of budgetRedwood City Police Activities League Inc: $656,500 over 7y, 21% of budgetPGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC: $615,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CATHEDRAL CITY: $435,120 over 7y, 21% of budgetPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE: $346,800 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetSan Mateo County Health Foundation: $336,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetCHILDHELP INC: $336,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetREDWOOD CITY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $315,000 over 6y, 36% of budgetABOUT-FACE MEDIA LITERACY INC: $277,000 over 7y, 59% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR HEARING RESEARCH INC WEINGARTEN CHILDRENS CENTER: $260,900 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetRenaissance Entrepreneurship Center: $253,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $243,670 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ST HELENA AND CALISTOGA INC: $240,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $225,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $225,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetONE LIFE COUNSELING CENTER: $215,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetWARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC: $215,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $203,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFree Guitars 4 Kids: $200,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN NOW: $175,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetHILLER AVIATION INSTITUTE: $175,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetMANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP FOR TOMORROW: $170,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDEMOCRACY WORKS INC: $150,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetWOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS: $150,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $148,740 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetFOOTHILL-DEANZA COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATION: $130,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMAGICAL BRIDGE FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetSAN MATEO COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $101,600 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetGENERATIONS UNITED INC: $85,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetNCGA FOUNDATION: $77,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHEALTHIER KIDS FOUNDATION: $76,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetEAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SECURITY AND TECHNOLOGY: $60,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetSan Mateo County Community Colleges Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetDESERT RECREATION FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA: $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGlobal Security Institute: $35,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetADVENT GROUP MINISTRIES INC: $26,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPATHWAYS HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSouth County Community Health Center Inc dba Ravenswood Family Health Center: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S DENTAL CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNUCLEAR AGE PEACE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Atkinson FoundationLos Altos Mountain Vi…The Sobrato Family Fo…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Gordon E and Betty I …Sand Hill FoundationBothin FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…Tides FoundationDanford FoundationThe William & Flora H…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA30.4× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Saga Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Saga Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Warrior Canine Connection Inc: 5% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Saga Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Saga Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 71 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home