· Private foundation
Sage 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $64k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $818k
- $250k+7 grants · $4.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500,000 |
| E-TOWN | $1,000,000 |
| CENTRUM FOUNDATION | $600,000 |
| MUSIC IS EXTRAORDINARY INC | $400,000 |
| OJAI VALLEY SCHOOL EQUESTRIAN PROGRAM | $277,226 |
| CELTIC ARTS FOUNDATION | $260,000 |
| THE STEEL GUITAR HALL OF FAME INC | $250,000 |
| BARMORAL SCHOOL OF PIPING | $155,000 |
| SING FOR AMERICA FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| LOS CENZONTIES MEXICAN ARTS CENTER | $125,000 |
| ANGEL RESOURCE CONNECTION | $122,000 |
| ARHOOLIE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| UL LAYFAYETTE FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| SEATTLE FOLKLORE SOCIETY | $56,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $122k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
23 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 9 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, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M 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
- CFCENTRUM FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $5.4M · revenue +32% · 33% of their budget
- ETE TOWN7× · 2018–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +28% · 34% of their budget
- OVOJAI VALLEY SCHOOL4× · 2018–2023 · $2.7M · revenue +0%
Funded once
- CACELTIC ARTS SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONone grant, 2020 · $4.0M · revenue -45% · 100% of their budget
- CWCALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1.6M · revenue +153%
- OVOJAI VALLEY SCHOOL RESTORE RENEW REBUILDone grant, 2020 · $1.0M
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.
Organize conference for folk musicians
The mission of the Bowdoin International Music Festival is to provide gifted young musicians from around the world with an opportunity to study with world-class artists, and to provide audiences with classical music performed to the…
Presentation of early music performances.
To support Santa Fe Concert Association, DBA: Performance Santa Fe
The Americana Music Association Foundation was founded to preserve Americana music through education. Our endeavors strengthen understanding, awareness and appreciation of cultural heritage, shine a light on inspiration, and promote the…
Enriching Lives Through the Arts
The Center for the Arts is a cultural and educational organization that promotes and presents the literary, visual and performing arts for the enrichment of the community.
Occidental Center for the Arts exists to provide a welcoming and accessible venue for the performing and visual arts in Sonoma County California for local regional national and international artists. our mission is to enrich our community…
Music Education Performance and Exposure
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Celtic Arts Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Steel Guitar Hall of Fame Inc. 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 30 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 — 0.0% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 56 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 CENTRUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORTISSIMO ↗
- Who funds CELTIC ARTS SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds E TOWN ↗
- Who funds OJAI VALLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Arhoolie Foundation ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Book-It Repertory Theatre ↗
- Who funds GRABHORN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COUNTRY DANCE AND SONG SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Steel Guitar Hall of Fame Inc ↗
- Who funds CELTIC ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RADIO PORT TOWNSEND ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC ↗
- Who funds ASHOKAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center ↗
- Who funds MUSIC IS EXTRAORDINARY INC ↗
- Who funds Sierra Music and Arts Institute ↗
- Who funds SING FOR AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE FOLKLORE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PBS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE TRADITIONAL ARTS ↗
- Who funds ANGEL RESOURCE CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds THE DAWN REDWOODS CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds BLACK FRET DBA SONIC GUILD ↗
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: The San Francisco Foundation · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · Artsfund · Seattle Foundation · Grammy Museum Foundation Inc · The Miner Anderson Family Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 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.
- National Council for the Traditional Arts — 53% 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.