· Public charity
Sage Patient Advocates
SAGE PATIENT ADVOCATES supports patients in their battle with serious illness.
Read this first · the figures below need context
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k10 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $38k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS CANCER CENTER | $16,075 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $12,000 |
| INFLAMMATORY BREAST CANCER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TRIAGE CANCER | $5,000 |
| EVERGREEN VALLEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| BAYLOR COLLEGE MEDICAL | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| SCRIPPS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN ASSOCIATION CANCER RESEARCH | $1,500 |
| AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEMOTOLGY | $400 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $250 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $211 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +56% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2021, 7 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTRIAGE CANCER6× · 2018–2025 · $29k · revenue +285%
Vanderbilt University3× · 2020–2023 · $6k · revenue +65%
THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC2× · 2018–2019 · $1k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- MMDACCone grant, 2018 · $1k
- FCFARGO CANCER CENTERone grant, 2020 · $500
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $500
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.
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.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
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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,…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
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.
The american college of radiology (acr) is organized to advance radiology science, practice and access, improve quality and safety, provide continuing education for radiology and allied professionals, and achieve better outcomes through…
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.
Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…
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…
Medical research organization van andel research institute is an independent biomedical research organization committed to improving the health and enhancing the lives of current and future generations.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 32 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds TRIAGE CANCER ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds THE CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCRIPPS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CaringBridge ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEMATOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sage Patient Advocates funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sage Patient Advocates. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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