· Private foundation
Sara & Robert Savage Charitable Foundation U/A/D 12-28-2004
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
93% of Sara & Robert Savage Charitable Foundation U/A/D 12-28-2004’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Brown University, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Sara & Robert Savage Charitable Foundation U/A/D 12-28-2004 named its own grantees at scale: 21 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k22 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Volunteer Match | $1,000,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $300,000 |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | $200,000 |
| Taft School Annual Fund | $50,000 |
| Speak Up Africa | $30,000 |
| Pilobolus Inc | $25,000 |
| ASAP | $15,000 |
| NOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| Third Option Foundation | $5,000 |
| Warren Land Trust Inc | $5,000 |
| PEER HEALTH EXCHANGE | $5,000 |
| Steep Rock Association | $5,000 |
| LAKE WARAMAUG ASSOCIATION | $4,000 |
| KING ANNUAL FUND | $2,500 |
| Hudson River Park Friends | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–20, $129k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
40 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2020, 13 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, 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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI5× · 2018–2022 · $979k · revenue +52%- MSMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC2× · 2017–2018 · $120k · revenue +90%
NOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL6× · 2017–2022 · $110k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- TSTHE SPENCE SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +12%
- CSCity Squash Incone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -25%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $3k
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
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.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Oliver Scholars Program Inc and the most unlike its peers is Compass Zambia. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 10% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 68 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 BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds NOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PILOBOLUS INC ↗
- Who funds SPEAK UP AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds PEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds STEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLAY RUGBY INC ↗
- Who funds WARREN LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWOODS COUNSELING & REFERRALS INC ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SPENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Physicians For Reproductive Health ↗
- Who funds THE LAKE WARAMAUG ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASS ZAMBIA ↗
- Who funds LAKE WARAMAUG TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds FERRODONNA FEATURES INC ↗
- Who funds City Squash Inc ↗
- Who funds THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WARREN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
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: Fjc · The Connecticut Community Foundation · The Kestrel Foundation · Murray & Susan Haber Charitable Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Dungannon Foundation Inc · The Ellen Knowles Harcourt Foundation · Charles & Jane Klein Family Fund · The Wenden Foundation · S & L Marx Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Sara & Robert Savage Charitable Foundation U/A/D 12-28-2004 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Steep Rock Association Inc — 19% of income from government
- Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy Inc — 9% of income from government
- Greenwoods Counseling & Referrals Inc — 7% of income from government
- Pilobolus Inc — 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Eden Autism Services Inc — 0% of income from government
- Susan B Anthony Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.