How much does Saje give?

Saje reported 3 grants totaling $349,020 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (35%), Housing & Shelter (25%), Environment (17%).

Who are Saje's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Tenemos Que Reclamar y Unidos Salvar la Tierra-South La ($514k), Community Development Technologies Center ($514k), Esperanza Community Housing Corporation ($514k).

Does Saje fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Saje?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Liberty Hill Foundation, The California Endowment, Weingart Foundation.

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California · Public charity

Saje

SAJE builds community leadership and power for economic justice.

$349k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 3
Grants FY2024: 8
Organizations funded FY2023: 50%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $75,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $209,020
Organizations funded a year: 4 to 13; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $4.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Saje funded were first-time grantees, receiving 81% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $538k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	3	$349k	33%
FY2023	8	$667k	50%
FY2022	13	$530k	62%
FY2021	6	$388k	0%
FY2020	7	$413k	43%
FY2019	7	$499k	43%
FY2018	6	$390k	50%
FY2017	4	$257k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Community Improvement$1.2MHousing & Shelter$875kEnvironment$585kCrime & Legal$415kCivil Rights$174kHuman Services$121kEducation$96kFood & Nutrition$3k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Tenemos Que Reclamar y Unidos Salvar la Tierra-South La	$514,000	6	21%
Community Development Technologies Center	$514,000	5	7%
Esperanza Community Housing Corporation	$514,000	6	4%
Center on Policy Initiatives	$276,198	2	13%
Causa Justa Just Cause	$275,000	5	4%
Housing Sustainability Advisors LLC	$239,620	1	n/a
La Voice	$173,014	3	5%
Texas Riogrande Legal Aid Inc	$158,666	2	0%
Southern California Education Fund	$110,000	2	10%
Chainbreaker Collective	$106,666	2	31%

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All grantees of Saje by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Tenemos Que Reclamar y Unidos Salvar la Tierra-South La	$514,000	6	21%
Community Development Technologies Center	$514,000	5	7%
Esperanza Community Housing Corporation	$514,000	6	4%
Center on Policy Initiatives	$276,198	2	13%
Causa Justa Just Cause	$275,000	5	4%
Housing Sustainability Advisors LLC	$239,620	1	n/a
La Voice	$173,014	3	5%
Texas Riogrande Legal Aid Inc	$158,666	2	0%
Southern California Education Fund	$110,000	2	10%
Chainbreaker Collective	$106,666	2	31%
Inclusive Action for the City	$75,000	1	1%
Communities for a Better Environment	$68,635	2	1%
East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice	$67,399	2	2%
Innercity Struggle	$45,625	1	1%
St John's Community Health	$40,000	1	0%
Ltsc Community Development Corporation	$20,000	1	0%
Inner City Law Center	$14,085	2	0%
Noho Home Alliance	$12,500	2	1%
ACCE Institute	$10,000	1	0%
Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles	$9,084	1	0%
Public Counsel	$7,085	1	0%
Carstens Black & Minteer LLP - Retainer Deposit - Bethune Project	$7,000	1	n/a
Southeast Asian Community Alliance	$5,000	1	1%
Strategic Concepts In Organizing & Policy Education	$3,500	1	0%
Tenants Together	$3,000	1	0%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($225k), not named here.

Saje supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 23.

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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.

Liberty Hill FoundationCA39.7× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Liberty Hill Foundation · The California Endowment · Weingart Foundation · California Community Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · United Way Inc · The James Irvine Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Roy and Patricia Disney Family Foundation · Community Partners · Durfee Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Saje

How much does Saje give?: Saje reported 3 grants totaling $349,020 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Saje fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (35%), Housing & Shelter (25%), Environment (17%).
Who are Saje's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Tenemos Que Reclamar y Unidos Salvar la Tierra-South La ($514k), Community Development Technologies Center ($514k), Esperanza Community Housing Corporation ($514k).
Does Saje fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Saje?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Liberty Hill Foundation, The California Endowment, Weingart Foundation.
Where is Saje based?: Saje is based in CA.