· Public charity
Saje
SAJE builds community leadership and power for economic justice.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GLOBAL POLICY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY | $209,020 |
| INCLUSIVE ACTION FOR THE CITY | $75,000 |
| LA FORWARD (LA VOICE) | $65,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $343k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +73% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
- TQTENEMOS QUE RECLAMAR Y UNIDOS SALVAR LA TIERRA-SOUTH LA6× · 2017–2022 · $514k · revenue +270%
- CDCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGIES CENTER5× · 2017–2022 · $514k · revenue +271%
- ECESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION6× · 2017–2022 · $514k · revenue +228%
Funded once
- HSHOUSING SUSTAINABILITY ADVISORS LLCone grant, 2023 · $240k
- LOLAW OFFICE OF NOAH GRYNBERGone grant, 2023 · $225k
- ISINNERCITY STRUGGLEone grant, 2022 · $46k · revenue +15%
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.
The California Center for Movement Legal Services (Movement Legal) provides legal services in the pursuit of improving the lives of California's traditionally underserved residents, carrying out legal work that fosters community led policy…
To foster interest among its community members in social community economic and environmental conditions and growth. and to assist in the development of affordable housing in southern california by providing housing development and…
The Asian Law Caucus's mission is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist…
Dedicated to empowering low-income tenants through community organizing, education and advocacy to fight for safe, decent, and affordable housing in los angeles.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
Community organizing, education, advocacy, leadership development, direct services and organizational development for communities faced with immense poverty.
Fair housing monitoring outreach and education housing rights training counseling and case analysis. Have several grants to provide these services to the public on behalf of several city jurisdiction including the City and County of Los…
La Raza Centro Legal San Francisco provides high quality, highly trusted, free legal services to low-income or immigrant clients in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The L.A. Co-op Lab is a collective that builds capacity for worker ownership in Los Angeles as a pathway toward a more equitable and democratic economy.
As one of the most enduring civil rights institutions on the West Coast, we work to dismantle systems of oppression and racism, and build an equitable and just society.
Community Lawyers, Inc. provides underserved low- and no-income community members access to legal representation, pro-bono legal clinics, and community advocacy and engagement.
To provide transformative legal services that enable diverse communities in East Palo Alto and beyond to achieve a secure and thriving future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Development Technologies Center and the most unlike its peers is Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% 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 15% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 26 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 TENEMOS QUE RECLAMAR Y UNIDOS SALVAR LA TIERRA-SOUTH LA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGIES CENTER ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER ON POLICY INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds Causa Justa Just Cause ↗
- Who funds LA VOICE ↗
- Who funds TEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds CHAINBREAKER COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds INCLUSIVE ACTION FOR THE CITY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT ↗
- Who funds EAST YARD COMMUNITIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds INNERCITY STRUGGLE ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds LTSC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Inner City Law Center ↗
- Who funds NOHO HOME ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ACCE Institute ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC COUNSEL ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST ASIAN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Strategic Concepts In Organizing & Policy Education ↗
- Who funds Tenants Together ↗
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: 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
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 Saje 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.
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.
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