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The Sager Family Traveling Foundation and Road Show Inc

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.

$51k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 23
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The Sager Family Traveling Foundation and Road Show Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEnvironmentEducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving2$51k50%
FY20244$239k25%
FY20236$44k17%
FY202213$200k69%
FY202116$497k44%
FY202023$546k78%
FY201915$401kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Science & Tech$688kReligion$284kArts & Culture$275kInternational$253kPhilanthropy$147kEnvironment$105kEducation$54kHuman Services$51kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
MO
AZ
DC
AL
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Science for Monks$687,2094100%
The Vilna Shul Bostons Center for Jewish Culture Inc$158,00039%
Park Street Church$156,8711n/a
The Lenny Zakim Fund$112,80043%
The Rainforest Fund Inc$100,000132%
International Medical Corps$100,00010%
The Synergos Institute Inc$74,00031%
Tibet Fund Inc$50,0001n/a
Trustees of Tufts College$28,00020%
Fund for Parks and Recreation - Boston$20,00020%
Show all 37 grantees
All grantees of The Sager Family Traveling Foundation and Road Show Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Science for Monks$687,2094100%
The Vilna Shul Bostons Center for Jewish Culture Inc$158,00039%
Park Street Church$156,8711n/a
The Lenny Zakim Fund$112,80043%
The Rainforest Fund Inc$100,000132%
International Medical Corps$100,00010%
The Synergos Institute Inc$74,00031%
Tibet Fund Inc$50,0001n/a
Trustees of Tufts College$28,00020%
Fund for Parks and Recreation - Boston$20,00020%
The Global Development Incubator Inc$18,00010%
Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc$15,00030%
Catholic Near East Welfare Assoc Inc$14,0003n/a
Bernice & Philip Frieze Fund Inc$13,40032%
John Templeton Foundation$11,28510%
Tibet House US Inc$10,97830%
Druze Orphans and Charitable Organization Inc$10,00013%
Citizenship Counts$10,000115%
Population Media Center Inc$10,00010%
Food for the Poor Inc$10,00010%
Boston Harbor Now Inc$5,12810%
Catskill Animal Sanctuary Inc$5,00010%
Spoonfuls$5,00010%
Long Island Cares Inc$5,00010%
Boston Rescue Mission Inc$5,00010%
Rosie's Place Inc$5,00010%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$3,00020%
Boston Community Pediatrics Inc$1,80010%
Notmykid$1,80010%
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution$50010%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$50010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$50010%
WGBH Educational Foundation$50010%
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation$25010%
National Parks Conservation Association$15010%
Boston Public Library Fund Inc$10010%
Paralyzed Veterans of America New England Chapter$501n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($329k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Sager Family Traveling Foundation and Road Show Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetScience for Monks: $687,209 over 4y, 100% of budgetThe Vilna Shul Bostons Center for Jewish Culture Inc: $158,000 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetThe Lenny Zakim Fund: $112,800 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetThe Rainforest Fund Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetInternational Medical Corps: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Synergos Institute Inc: $74,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $28,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFund for Parks and Recreation - Boston: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Global Development Incubator Inc: $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBernice & Philip Frieze Fund Inc: $13,400 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetJohn Templeton Foundation: $11,285 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTibet House US Inc: $10,978 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDruze Orphans and Charitable Organization Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCitizenship Counts: $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetPopulation Media Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFood for the Poor Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Harbor Now Inc: $5,128 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCatskill Animal Sanctuary Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSpoonfuls: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLong Island Cares Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Rescue Mission Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRosie's Place Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Multiple Sclerosis Society: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Community Pediatrics Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNotmykid: $1,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPartners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Parks Conservation Association: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Public Library Fund Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 33.

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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.

Boston Foundation IncMA20.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · George B Henderson Foundation Jh5090 · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Arbella Insurance Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase 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.

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About The Sager Family Traveling Foundation and Road Show Inc

How much does The Sager Family Traveling Foundation and Road Show Inc give?
The Sager Family Traveling Foundation and Road Show Inc reported 2 grants totaling $50,999 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 23 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does The Sager Family Traveling Foundation and Road Show Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (35%), Religion (14%), Arts & Culture (14%).
Who are The Sager Family Traveling Foundation and Road Show Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Science for Monks ($687k), The Vilna Shul Bostons Center for Jewish Culture Inc ($158k), Park Street Church ($157k).
Does The Sager Family Traveling Foundation and Road Show Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Sager Family Traveling Foundation and Road Show Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Sager Family Traveling Foundation and Road Show Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc.
Where is The Sager Family Traveling Foundation and Road Show Inc based?
The Sager Family Traveling Foundation and Road Show Inc is based in MA.

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 52 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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