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Sara & Robert Savage Charitable Foundation U/A/D 12-28-2004 at a glance

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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.

$1.7M
Granted FY2020
30
Grants FY2020
9
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

27
’17
24
’18
24
’19
21
’20
13
’21
10
’22
6
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$6.2MHealth$1.2MArts & Culture$105kInternational$95kEnvironment$56kRecreation & Sports$35kPhilanthropy$25kHuman Services$9kOther$0
02FY2020 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k22 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
$2,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$22k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Steep Rock Association$5,000
Warren Land Trust Inc$5,000
PEER HEALTH EXCHANGE$5,000
Third Option Foundation$5,000
LAKE WARAMAUG ASSOCIATION$4,000
KING ANNUAL FUND$2,500
Hudson River Park Friends$2,500
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Third Option Foundation: $5k → 6%SUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT: $1k → 9%SUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT: $1k → 9%Mount Sinai Health System: $110k → 17%SUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT: $1k → 9%SUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT: $1k → 9%Mount Sinai Health System: $10k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
MT
NY
MA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
VA
DC
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 40 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
16

Total granted

$3.7M
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+52%

Still filing today

70%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
EnvironmentHealthEducationInternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
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

  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    5× · 2018–2022 · $979k · revenue +52%
  • MS
    MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $120k · revenue +90%
  • NOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL
    6× · 2017–2022 · $110k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SPENCE SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +12%
  • CS
    City Squash Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -25%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $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.

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
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
University of New Haven

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…

Education
10
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
11
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
12
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Oliver Scholars Program Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 68 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/48
Grantees still filing
33/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BROWN UNIVERSITY: $5,580,250 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITYVolunteer Match: $1,500,000 · OtherVolunteer MatchTaft School Annual Fund: $425,000 · OtherTaft School Annual FundASAP: $125,000 · OtherASAP+40 more: $182,865 · Other+40 moreICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $979,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL …NOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL: $110,000 · EducationNOBLE AND GRE…UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $50,000 · Education+2 more: $11,500 · EducationMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $120,000 · Human ServicesTHIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $4,000 · Human ServicesSPEAK UP AFRICA INC: $75,000 · InternationalCOMPASS ZAMBIA: $5,550 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 · International+2 more: $1,750 · InternationalPILOBOLUS INC: $77,500 · Arts & CultureFERRODONNA FEATURES INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureSTEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentWARREN LAND TRUST INC: $15,000 · EnvironmentTHE LAKE WARAMAUG ASSOCIATION INC: $7,000 · EnvironmentLAKE WARAMAUG TASK FORCE INC: $5,500 · EnvironmentNORTHWEST CONNECTICUT LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $4,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $3,200 · Environment+2 more: $1,500 · Environment
Community Improvement$5,580,250Other$2,232,865Education$1,150,500Human Services$129,000International$86,800Arts & Culture$83,000Environment$56,200

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $5,580,250 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $979,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $120,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL: $110,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPILOBOLUS INC: $77,500 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetSPEAK UP AFRICA INC: $75,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC: $22,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPLAY RUGBY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSTEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWARREN LAND TRUST INC: $15,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetTHE GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREENWOODS COUNSELING & REFERRALS INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SPENCE SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPhysicians For Reproductive Health: $9,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LAKE WARAMAUG ASSOCIATION INC: $7,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetCOMPASS ZAMBIA: $5,550 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetLAKE WARAMAUG TASK FORCE INC: $5,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFERRODONNA FEATURES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCity Squash Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST CONNECTICUT LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DOE FUND INC: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $3,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWARREN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWASHINGTON SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE OLIVER SCHOLARS PROGRAM INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRADICAL HOPE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT LYME: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRwanda One Hill At A Time Inc: $750 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $565 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIVERSITY OF DANCE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROXBURY LAND TRUST INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDEN AUTISM SERVICES INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 PLAY RUGBY INC ↗
  • Who funds STEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WARREN LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENWOODS COUNSELING & REFERRALS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SPENCE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK 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.

FjcThe Connecticut Commu…The Kestrel FoundationMurray & Susan Haber …The Goldman Sachs Cha…Dungannon Foundation …The Ellen Knowles Har…Charles & Jane Klein …The Wenden FoundationS & L Marx FoundationJewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…
FjcNY26.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Sara & Robert Savage Charitable Foundation U/A/D 12-28-2004 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sara & Robert Savage Charitable Foundation U/A/D 12-28-2004. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 68 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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