Missouri · Private foundation
Sage Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $3.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,010,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 27
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $967k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Sage Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $3.1M | 12% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $322k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $165k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $207k | 41% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $302k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $255k | 36% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $259k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington University | $2,210,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Forest Park Forever Inc | $501,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees | $340,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital | $175,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Central Reform Congregation | $151,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Starkloff Disability Institute | $149,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Gateway Arch Park Foundation | $112,000 | 5 | 0% |
| River City Journalism Fund Inc | $95,000 | 4 | 41% |
| St Louis Regional Public Media Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Grand Center Inc | $71,985 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($224k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sage Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · The Kranzberg Family Charitable Foundation · Centene Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · The John and Alison Ferring Family Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Pershing Charitable Trust · Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation
How this is measured
About Sage Charitable Foundation
- How much does Sage Charitable Foundation give?
- Sage Charitable Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $3,088,485 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 27 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Sage Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (28%), Education (21%), Environment (19%).
- Who are Sage Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Washington University ($2.2M), Forest Park Forever Inc ($501k), Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees ($340k).
- Does Sage Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sage Charitable 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 Sage Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, St Louis Community Foundation, The Kranzberg Family Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Sage Charitable Foundation based?
- Sage Charitable Foundation is based in MO.
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