Michigan · Private foundation
Sage Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 68
- Grants FY2025
- 65
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 65 to 71
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $47M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Sage Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k 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 | 62 | $1.4M | 11% |
| FY2024 | 65 | $1.7M | 17% |
| FY2023 | 70 | $1.7M | 21% |
| FY2022 | 71 | $2.0M | 49% |
| FY2019 | 70 | $3.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Window to the World Communications Inc | $1,627,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Grant Park Orchestral Association | $575,000 | 5 | 2% |
| The Joffrey Ballet | $440,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Lenawee Chamber Foundation | $425,000 | 5 | 60% |
| Adrian College | $330,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Ravinia Festival Association | $280,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Croswell Opera House & Fine Arts Association | $250,000 | 1 | 16% |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Big Shoulders Fund | $180,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Marian Catholic | $175,000 | 5 | n/a |
Show all 100 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sage Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 87 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Farver Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Lenawee Community Foundation · Premier Bank Foundation · Douglas and Mary Kapnick Family Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The S L Hickman Family Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Dr Scholl Foundation · Tlc Community Credit Union · Consumers Energy Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago
How this is measured
About Sage Foundation
- How much does Sage Foundation give?
- Sage Foundation reported 68 grants totaling $1,626,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 65 and 71 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Sage Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (24%), Arts & Culture (23%), Health (2%).
- Who are Sage Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Window to the World Communications Inc ($1.6M), Grant Park Orchestral Association ($575k), The Joffrey Ballet ($440k).
- Does Sage Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sage Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sage Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Farver Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, Lenawee Community Foundation.
- Where is Sage Foundation based?
- Sage Foundation is based in MI.
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