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The Sage & Dice Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$675k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$297k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$18MHealth$15MEducation$11MEnvironment$950kArts & Culture$602kHousing & Shelter$120kHuman Services$118kAnimals$71kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k6 grants · $378k
  • $250k+1 grant · $297k
$50,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE BRETT BOYER FOUNDATION$297,149
NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC$125,000
BETTER TOGETHER$53,000
CONNOR SCOTT ZIEKY FOUNDATION$50,000
ADVANCING AMERICAN FREEDOM FOUNDATION$50,000
YOUTH HAVEN$50,000
SACRED MILITARY CONSTANTINIAN ORDER OF ST GEORGE$50,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $130k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OPERATION HEALING FORCES: $50k → 12%NEW LONDON HOMELESS HOSPITALITY CENTER: $2k → 9%BETTER TOGETHER: $53k → 10%OPERATION HEALING FORCES: $25k → 12%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

MN
IL
MI
IN
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
TN
FL
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$43M · 11 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +167% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
23

Total granted

$43M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+167%
+24%

Still filing today

55%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $253k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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

  • Indiana University Foundation
    2× · 2021–2024 · $9.7M · revenue +65%
  • NC
    NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +52%
  • NB
    NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $950k · revenue +167%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE
    one grant, 2021 · $804k · revenue +3%
  • EP
    EVANSVILLE P-47 FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue -80%
  • SF
    SAINT FRANCIS HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2017 · $200k
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
Indiana University Health Foundation Inc

Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.

Health
2
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
3
Banner Alzheimer's Foundation

Established in 2006, the banner alzheimer's foundation (baf) secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute (bai), including groundbreaking research initiatives and pioneering prevention…

Health
4
United States Naval Institute

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.

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5
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
6
Indiana University Health Bedford Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
7
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

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8
North Shore Health System Medical Faculty Group Practice

North shore health system medical faculty group practice (the corporation) functions as an extension of the northwell health hospitals by bringing medical care to community settings, providing care to medicare, medicaid, and other…

Health
9
Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc

Benefit, perform, and carry out the charitable, educational, and other exempt purposes of indiana university health ball memorial hospital, inc. ("iu health ball memorial hospital") and related organizations, and to support activities…

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10
Northern Michigan Hematology and Oncology

Provide professional services for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and infectious disease and related conditions.

Health
11
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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12
Alzheimer's Impact Movement

To advance and develop policies to overcome alzheimer's and all other dementia through increased investment in research, enhanced care and improved support.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naples Children Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Better Together. 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

22 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. 22 of the 40 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
17/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST VINCENT EVANSVILLE FOUNDATION: $16,750,025 · OtherST VINCENT EVANSVILLE FOUNDATIONIU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $13,917,502 · OtherIU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE+23 more: $947,718 · OtherIndiana University Foundation: $9,672,805 · EducationIndiana University Foundat…UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE: $803,950 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE+1 more: $25,000 · EducationNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $1,015,457 · PhilanthropyTHE BRETT BOYER FOUNDATION INC: $877,149 · HealthMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $50,000 · HealthNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC: $35,000 · Health+2 more: $1,500 · HealthNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $949,757 · EnvironmentEVANSVILLE P-47 FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureOPERATION HEALING FORCES INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesBETTER TOGETHER: $53,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,500 · Human Services
Other$31,615,245Education$10,501,755Philanthropy$1,015,457Health$963,649Environment$949,757Arts & Culture$502,000Human Services$129,500

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 budgetIndiana University Foundation: $9,672,805 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $1,015,457 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $949,757 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetTHE BRETT BOYER FOUNDATION INC: $877,149 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE: $803,950 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOPERATION HEALING FORCES INC: $75,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetPATTY BAKER HUMANE SOCIETY NAPLES INC: $70,100 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH HAVEN INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGRACE ACADEMY: $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARIAN EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH: $7,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW LONDON HOMELESS HOSPITALITY CENTER: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM FAMILIES CONNECTICUT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetYOUTH INCORPORATED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $500 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.

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.

Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA7.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Sage & Dice Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sage & Dice Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • New London Homeless Hospitality Center: 47% of income from government
  • Naples Botanical Garden Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 The Sage & Dice Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Sage & Dice Foundation 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 40 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home