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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k6 grants · $378k
- $250k+1 grant · $297k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BRETT BOYER FOUNDATION | $297,149 |
| NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC | $125,000 |
| BETTER TOGETHER | $53,000 |
| YOUTH HAVEN | $50,000 |
| ADVANCING AMERICAN FREEDOM FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CONNOR SCOTT ZIEKY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SACRED MILITARY CONSTANTINIAN ORDER OF ST GEORGE | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $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 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +86% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $253k 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
Indiana University Foundation2× · 2021–2024 · $9.7M · revenue +65%- NCNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +52%
- NBNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $950k · revenue +167%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLEone grant, 2021 · $804k · revenue +3%
- EPEVANSVILLE P-47 FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue -80%
- SFSAINT FRANCIS HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $200k
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.
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.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
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…
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…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
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,…
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…
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…
Provide professional services for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and infectious disease and related conditions.
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…
To advance and develop policies to overcome alzheimer's and all other dementia through increased investment in research, enhanced care and improved support.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naples Children Foundation Inc and 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.
22 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. 22 of the 40 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 Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRETT BOYER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE ↗
- Who funds EVANSVILLE P-47 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HEALING FORCES INC ↗
- Who funds PATTY BAKER HUMANE SOCIETY NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds BETTER TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN DELEGATION OF SACRED MILITARY CONSTANTINIAN ORDER OF ST GEORGE ↗
- Who funds YOUTH HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARIAN EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LONDON HOMELESS HOSPITALITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOUTH INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds AUTISM FAMILIES CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 The Sage & Dice Foundation 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.
- New London Homeless Hospitality Center — 47% of income from government
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% 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.
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