· Private foundation
Sanford M Gage Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $129k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| BEIT T'SHUVAH | $53,636 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION | $12,500 |
| THE NOISE WITHIN | $5,000 |
| MUSEIQUE | $5,000 |
| THE MUSIC CENTER | $3,500 |
| LA OPERA | $3,437 |
| CONCERN FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| START EARLY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| TOWER CANCERN RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF LARC | $500 |
| MISSOULA INTERL SCHOOL | $500 |
| BEVERLY HILLS THEATRE GUILD | $250 |
| CYPRESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $154 |
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 (FY17–20, $850) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +59% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.
35 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 10 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BTBeit T'Shuvah7× · 2017–2024 · $164k · revenue +57%
- ANA Noise Within6× · 2017–2024 · $33k · revenue +71%
- TSTHE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2021 · $19k · revenue +130%
Funded once
- HCHILLCREST C CLUB CHARITABLE FUNDone grant, 2020 · $5k
- SFSMC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $3k
- SCSTOP CANCERone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
How this is measured
53 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. 53 of the 96 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 Beit T'Shuvah ↗
- Who funds A Noise Within ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MuseIque ↗
- Who funds CONCERN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION GRATITUDE INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLBURN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Friends Of L A R C ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN YOUTH SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds STOP CANCER ↗
- Who funds WALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES CHILDREN'S CHORUS ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds START EARLY ↗
- Who funds DOWN WITH DYSTONIA ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · The J Paul Getty Trust · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · California Community Foundation · Warren and Elaine Breslow Family Foundation · Michael J Connell Foundation Michael J Connell Charities Lte · Jerry & Terri Kohl Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sanford M Gage Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sanford M Gage Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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