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Sage Bionetworks
SAGE BIONETWORKS is on a mission to drive a new age of discovery through truly open science and radical collaboration.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+2 grants · $664k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEVEN BRIDGES GENOMICS INC (VELSERA) | $412,225 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $251,814 |
| INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY | $204,222 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $169,611 |
| HARVARD OFFICE OF SPONSORED PROGRAMS | $156,432 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $136,319 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $125,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY | $114,897 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $103,680 |
| TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER | $80,688 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES | $78,426 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $70,420 |
| TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $68,791 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $36,580 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 54% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 18% of Sage Bionetworks’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 3 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $212k 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
- IFINSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY8× · 2017–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +35%
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI5× · 2017–2021 · $1.1M · revenue +58%
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER4× · 2021–2024 · $565k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- PPPsoriasis & Psoriatic Arthritis Clinics Multicenteone grant, 2021 · $609k · revenue -54% · 58% of their budget
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $56k · revenue +40%- UAUTMD ANDERSONone grant, 2018 · $56k
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.
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The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Tufts College and the most unlike its peers is Psoriasis & Psoriatic Arthritis Clinics Multicente. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 53 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 39 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 INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds Psoriasis & Psoriatic Arthritis Clinics Multicente ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds OCHIN INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds CENTRO DE SALUD DE LA COMUNIDAD DE SAN YSIDRO INC ↗
- Who funds SUN RIVER HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Broad Institute Inc ↗
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: Johns Hopkins University · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Sage Bionetworks 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Broad Institute Inc — 19% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Ochin Inc — 4% 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.