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Sage Patient Advocates

SAGE PATIENT ADVOCATES supports patients in their battle with serious illness. Although we do not provide medical advice, sage may help a patient identify physicians, genetic/personalized medicine experts to consult with and often, we assist the patient secure appointments with those professionals. We often help the patient formulate…

$58k
Granted FY2021
13
Grants FY2021
12
Organizations funded FY2021
67%
First-time grantees FY2021
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56% of Sage Patient Advocates’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Trustees Of Columbia University In The City Of New York, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Sage Patient Advocates named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $58k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

0
’17
2
’18
2
’19
2
’20
5
’21
2
’22
3
’23
2
’24
1
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2021
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2021
$16,075
Organizations funded a year
1 to 12
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
7
Total assets, FY2021
$493k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 67% of the organizations Sage Patient Advocates funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21
HealthHuman ServicesEducationPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202112$46k67%
FY20208$13k63%
FY20194$6k75%
FY20185$3k100%
FY20171$1kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$183kEducation$8kReligion$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
ND
MN
IL
NY
PA
NJ
CA
UT
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Triage Cancer$29,27261%
Vanderbilt University Medical Center$10,00010%
Vanderbilt University$5,50030%
The Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation$5,18210%
Evergreen Valley United Methodist Church Inc$5,0001n/a
Scripps Health$2,50010%
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc$1,00020%
The Scripps Research Institute$50010%
CaringBridge$50010%
American Society of Hematology Inc$40010%
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All grantees of Sage Patient Advocates by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Triage Cancer$29,27261%
Vanderbilt University Medical Center$10,00010%
Vanderbilt University$5,50030%
The Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation$5,18210%
Evergreen Valley United Methodist Church Inc$5,0001n/a
Scripps Health$2,50010%
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc$1,00020%
The Scripps Research Institute$50010%
CaringBridge$50010%
American Society of Hematology Inc$40010%
American Cancer Society Inc$21110%

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($111k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sage Patient Advocates supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTriage Cancer: $29,272 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation: $5,182 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetScripps Health: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Scripps Research Institute: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaringBridge: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Society of Hematology Inc: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $211 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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About Sage Patient Advocates

How much does Sage Patient Advocates give?
Sage Patient Advocates reported 13 grants totaling $58,036 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Sage Patient Advocates fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (94%), Education (4%), Religion (3%).
Who are Sage Patient Advocates's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Triage Cancer ($29k), Vanderbilt University Medical Center ($10k), Vanderbilt University ($6k).
Does Sage Patient Advocates fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Sage Patient Advocates based?
Sage Patient Advocates is based in CA.

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 32 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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