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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.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$412k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$12MScience & Tech$446kEducation$176k
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+2 grants · $664k
$103,680
Median grant
10
States reached
$8.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 54% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%Translational Genomics Research Institute: $155k → 11%University of Arizona: $143k → 15%Tufts University: $190k → 16%Mayo Clinic: $231k → 9%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $252k → 16%Psoriasis & Psoriatic Arthritis Clinics Multicenter Advancement NE: $609k → 7%Stanford University: $176k → 8%University of California Los Angeles: $215k → 14%University of Winsconsin-Madison: $71k → 10%Yale University: $103k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $170k → 13%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $125k → 14%University of Washington: $484k → 9%University of Arizona: $86k → 15%TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER: $81k → 16%Pennsylvania State University: $195k → 16%University of California San Diego: $207k → 11%University of California Los Angeles: $209k → 14%Duke University: $204k → 11%University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: $164k → 13%University of Washington: $214k → 9%University of Arizona: $142k → 15%University of California Los Angeles: $114k → 14%Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: $204k → 17%Oregon Health & Science University: $200k → 12%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $104k → 11%University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: $152k → 13%University of Washington: $152k → 9%Harvard Office of Sponsored Programs: $164k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $78k → 14%MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $136k → 17%Oregon Health & Science University: $75k → 12%University of North Carolina Chapel Hill: $97k → 13%HARVARD OFFICE OF SPONSORED PROGRAMS: $156k → 16%Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: $134k → 17%Institute for Systems Biology: $511k → 9%Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: $90k → 17%Institute for Systems Biology: $489k → 9%SEVEN BRIDGES GENOMICS INC (VELSERA): $412k → 16%Institute for Systems Biology: $436k → 9%Seven Bridges Genomics Inc: $200k → 16%Institute for Systems Biology: $380k → 9%Institute for Systems Biology: $349k → 9%Institute for Systems Biology: $289k → 9%Institute for Systems Biology: $254k → 9%INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY: $204k → 9%INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY: $115k → 9%Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center: $102k → 9%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

WA
MN
WI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
AZ
NC
GA
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 18% of Sage Bionetworks’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Sage Bionetworkslessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 23 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +40% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
9

Total granted

$11M
$900k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+40%

Still filing today

43%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $212k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthScience & TechOther
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

  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +35%
  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    5× · 2017–2021 · $1.1M · revenue +58%
  • MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    4× · 2021–2024 · $565k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • PP
    Psoriasis & Psoriatic Arthritis Clinics Multicente
    one grant, 2021 · $609k · revenue -54% · 58% of their budget
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $56k · revenue +40%
  • UA
    UTMD ANDERSON
    one grant, 2018 · $56k
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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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
2
University of Southern California

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…

Education
3
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
4
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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
6
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
7
Drexel University

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…

Education
8
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

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,…

Health
9
University of Minnesota Physicians

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…

Health
10
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
11
William Marsh Rice University

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…

Education
12
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Tufts College; 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.
05the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 39 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
17/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $886,916 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONSEVEN BRIDGES GENOMICS INC: $667,335 · OtherSEVEN BRIDGES GENOMICS INCUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $642,116 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $616,322 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $488,971 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $409,116 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONATRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $343,309 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $321,152 · OtherOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITYREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO: $273,011 · Other+11 more: $705,156 · Other+11 moreINSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY: $3,028,328 · Science & TechINSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOL…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $1,088,392 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE…DUKE UNIVERSITY: $422,327 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $364,496 · EducationPresident and Fellows of…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $244,794 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF…Trustees of Tufts College: $243,185 · EducationTrustees of Tufts Colleg…Yale University: $210,007 · EducationYale UniversityEmory University: $125,000 · Education+3 more: $152,892 · Education+3 morePsoriasis & Psoriatic Arthritis Clinics Multicente: $608,750 · HealthPsoriasis & Pso…MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $564,887 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-…THE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $265,674 · HealthTHE TRANSLATION…MAYO CLINIC: $247,767 · HealthMAYO CLINICOCHIN INC: $80,884 · Health+3 more: $45,531 · Health
Other$5,353,404Science & Tech$3,028,328Education$2,851,093Health$1,813,493

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 budgetINSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY: $3,028,328 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $1,088,392 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPsoriasis & Psoriatic Arthritis Clinics Multicente: $608,750 over 1y, 58% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $564,887 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $422,327 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $364,496 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $343,309 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $265,674 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $247,767 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $244,794 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $243,185 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $210,007 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $158,427 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCHIN INC: $80,884 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $56,016 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $50,876 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $46,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRO DE SALUD DE LA COMUNIDAD DE SAN YSIDRO INC: $19,929 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUN RIVER HEALTH FOUNDATION: $18,845 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $6,757 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Johns Hopkins Univers…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Johns Hopkins UniversityMD13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Sage Bionetworks funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sage Bionetworks. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
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.

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 39 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 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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