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Saje

SAJE builds community leadership and power for economic justice.

$349k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$209k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$75,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GLOBAL POLICY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY$209,020
INCLUSIVE ACTION FOR THE CITY$75,000
LA FORWARD (LA VOICE)$65,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GLOBAL POLICY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $209k → 11%GLOBAL POLICY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $67k → 11%STRATEGIC CONCEPTS IN ORGANIZING AND POLICY EDUCATION: $4k → 14%SOUTHEAST ASIAN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $5k → 14%INNER CITY STRUGGLE: $46k → 14%NOHO HOME ALLIANCE: $8k → 14%NOHO HOME ALLIANCE: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 13 repeat orgs$689k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
12

Total granted

$2.8M
$614k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+17%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementEducationFood & NutritionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TQ
    TENEMOS QUE RECLAMAR Y UNIDOS SALVAR LA TIERRA-SOUTH LA
    6× · 2017–2022 · $514k · revenue +270%
  • CD
    COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGIES CENTER
    5× · 2017–2022 · $514k · revenue +271%
  • EC
    ESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $514k · revenue +228%

Funded once

  • HS
    HOUSING SUSTAINABILITY ADVISORS LLC
    one grant, 2023 · $240k
  • LO
    LAW OFFICE OF NOAH GRYNBERG
    one grant, 2023 · $225k
  • IS
    INNERCITY STRUGGLE
    one grant, 2022 · $46k · revenue +15%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
California Center for Movement Legal Services

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…

Crime & Legal
2
Asian Law Caucus

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…

Crime & Legal
3
Community Lawyers Inc

Community Lawyers, Inc. provides underserved low- and no-income community members access to legal representation, pro-bono legal clinics, and community advocacy and engagement.

Crime & Legal
4
Community Legal Aid Socal

Community legal aid socal provides compassionate, holistic, and impactful legal services to residents of los angeles and orange counties who need help with housing, family law, healthcare access and other areas of law.

Crime & Legal
5
Concerned Citizens of South Central Los Angeles

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…

Community Improvement
6
Southern California Housing Rights Center

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…

Civil Rights
7
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area

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.

—
8
Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action

The Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) Action is a grassroots, member-led, statewide community organization working with more than 16,000 members in six counties across California, dedicated to raising the voices of…

Human Services
9
Inquilinos Unidos

Dedicated to empowering low-income tenants through community organizing, education and advocacy to fight for safe, decent, and affordable housing in los angeles.

Unclassified
10
Cangress Dba Los Angeles Community Action Network

Community organizing, education, advocacy, leadership development, direct services and organizational development for communities faced with immense poverty.

Community Improvement
11
Legal Link

Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.

Crime & Legal
12
La Forward Institute

Transform local communities into places that are fair and flourishing for everyone through education, community organization, and coalition-building.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Development Technologies Center; the most unlike its peers is Causa Justa Just Cause. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 26 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
17/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TENEMOS QUE RECLAMAR Y UNIDOS SALVAR LA TIERRA-SOUTH LA: $514,000 · Housing & ShelterTENEMOS QUE RECLAMAR Y UNIDOS SALVAR LA TI…ESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION: $514,000 · Housing & ShelterESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATIONCausa Justa Just Cause: $275,000 · Housing & ShelterCausa Justa Just Cause+1 more: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGIES CENTER: $514,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TE…LA VOICE: $173,014 · Community ImprovementLA VOICEINCLUSIVE ACTION FOR THE CITY: $75,000 · Community ImprovementINCLUSIVE ACTION FOR THE…HOUSING SUSTAINABILITY ADVISORS LLC: $239,620 · OtherHOUSING SUSTAINABILIT…LAW OFFICE OF NOAH GRYNBERG: $224,544 · OtherLAW OFFICE OF NOAH GR…SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDUCATION FUND: $110,000 · OtherSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA E…EAST YARD COMMUNITIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: $67,399 · OtherEAST YARD COMMUNITIES…+3 more: $20,000 · OtherCENTER ON POLICY INITIATIVES: $276,198 · Human ServicesCENTER ON POLI…CHAINBREAKER COLLECTIVE: $106,666 · Human ServicesCHAINBREAKER C…INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $45,625 · Human ServicesINNERCITY STRU…+3 more: $21,000 · Human ServicesTEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC: $158,666 · Crime & LegalInner City Law Center: $14,085 · Crime & LegalLegal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles: $9,084 · Crime & LegalPUBLIC COUNSEL: $7,085 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT: $68,635 · EnvironmentST JOHN'S COMMUNITY HEALTH: $40,000 · Philanthropy
Housing & Shelter$1,323,000Community Improvement$762,014Other$661,563Human Services$449,489Crime & Legal$188,920Environment$68,635Philanthropy$40,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTENEMOS QUE RECLAMAR Y UNIDOS SALVAR LA TIERRA-SOUTH LA: $514,000 over 6y, 21% of budgetCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGIES CENTER: $514,000 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION: $514,000 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetCENTER ON POLICY INITIATIVES: $276,198 over 2y, 13% of budgetCausa Justa Just Cause: $275,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetLA VOICE: $173,014 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetTEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC: $158,666 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDUCATION FUND: $110,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetCHAINBREAKER COLLECTIVE: $106,666 over 2y, 31% of budgetINCLUSIVE ACTION FOR THE CITY: $75,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT: $68,635 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetEAST YARD COMMUNITIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: $67,399 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetINNERCITY STRUGGLE: $45,625 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetST JOHN'S COMMUNITY HEALTH: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLTSC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInner City Law Center: $14,085 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNOHO HOME ALLIANCE: $12,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetACCE Institute: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLegal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles: $9,084 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC COUNSEL: $7,085 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHEAST ASIAN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetStrategic Concepts In Organizing & Policy Education: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTenants Together: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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 Foundati…The California Endowm…Weingart FoundationCalifornia Community …The California Wellne…United Way IncThe James Irvine Foun…The Annenberg Foundat…Roy and Patricia Disn…Community PartnersDurfee FoundationKaiser Foundation Hos…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Saje funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Saje. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Saje?

    Find your warmest path to Saje through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 26 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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