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The Sagner Family Foundation at a glance

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The Sagner Family Foundation

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.

$928k
Granted FY2023
16
Grants FY2023
6
States reached
$900k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

54% of The Sagner Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 13 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Sagner Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $928k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

27
’17
20
’18
16
’19
17
’20
5
’21
0
’22
10
’23
13
’24

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

01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$4.4MCivil Rights$1.1MArts & Culture$718kCommunity Improvement$333kCrime & Legal$151kPublic Benefit$123kEducation$103kSocial Science$101kOther$0
02FY2023 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k15 grants · $27k
  • $250k+1 grant · $900k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMALGAMATED Charitable Foundation$900,000
NEW YORK ATHLETIC CLUB$7,200
New Jersey Performing Arts Center$5,000
ActBlue$2,500
Institute for Middle East Understanding$2,000
New Florida Majority Education Fund$2,000
JACOBS PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC$2,000
NORTH STAR FUND$1,000
TIKKUN OLAM FOUNDATION INC$1,000
Make the Road New York$1,000
KADIMA$1,000
THE PEOPLES KITCHEN PHILLY$1,000
Lenox Library$500
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART$250
Jewish Voice for peace$100
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 (FY17–24, $220k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TIDES CENTER: $100k → 10%ignite adaptive sports: $10k → 12%tides center: $5k → 10%POSSIBILITY LABS: $100k → 10%the opportunity project: $5k → 16%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

MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MD
DC
GA
TX
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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 36 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

36 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2023, 29 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, 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

36
85

Total granted

$1.9M
$674k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+78%

Still filing today

50%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $312k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesCivil RightsPublic BenefitEducationOther
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

  • MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER
    3× · 2017–2020 · $200k · revenue +21%
  • MOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT
    3× · 2017–2020 · $100k · revenue +149%
  • BS
    BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $88k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • NEO Philanthropy Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $52k · revenue +191%
  • PP
    Public Policy and Education Fund
    one grant, 2018 · $51k
  • LR
    LAW RESOUCE CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
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
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
2
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
3
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
4
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
5
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
8
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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9
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
10
Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University Inc

The Knight First Amendment Institute defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, public advocacy and public education. Our aim is to promote a system of free expression that is…

Education
11
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; the most unlike its peers is Tikkun Olam Foundation Inc. 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

76 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. 76 of the 148 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)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/76
Grantees still filing
53/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTH STAR FUND INC: $2,175,700 · OtherNORTH STAR FUND INCAMALGAMATED Charitable Foundation: $900,000 · OtherAMALGAMATED Charitable Foundationthe newark museum: $420,000 · Otherthe newark museum+103 more: $1,051,050 · Other+103 moreAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $750,000 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated Chari…TIDES FOUNDATION: $260,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATIONWe Are Purposeful Inc: $100,000 · PhilanthropyWe Are Purposeful…+2 more: $1,500 · PhilanthropyCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS: $555,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FO…SOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC: $25,500 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $2,500 · Civil RightsMOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT: $100,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $87,500 · Arts & CultureTYPE MEDIA CENTER INC: $26,022 · Arts & CultureTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $14,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+14 more: $24,580 · Arts & CultureTIDES CENTER: $105,000 · Human ServicesPOSSIBILITY LABS: $100,000 · Human ServicesOPPORTUNITY PROJECT INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesIGNITE ADAPTIVE SPORTS: $10,000 · Human Services+2 more: $1,500 · Human ServicesMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $200,000 · Community ImprovementNew York Communities Organizing Fund Inc: $16,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $5,000 · Community ImprovementPROTEUS FUND INC: $150,000 · EducationEDUCATION LAW CENTER INC: $25,000 · EducationKENT PLACE SCHOOL: $13,000 · Education+2 more: $6,000 · Education
Other$4,546,750Philanthropy$1,111,500Civil Rights$608,000Arts & Culture$262,102Human Services$246,500Community Improvement$221,000Education$194,000

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 budgetNORTH STAR FUND INC: $2,175,700 over 7y, 7.0% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $750,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS: $555,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $260,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $200,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $105,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT: $100,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetINDIAN LAW RESOURCE CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetPOSSIBILITY LABS: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $87,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $52,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOPPORTUNITY PROJECT INC: $30,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetSOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC: $25,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEDUCATION LAW CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK ATHLETIC CLUB: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY INITIATIVE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetNew York Communities Organizing Fund Inc: $16,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKENT PLACE SCHOOL: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFORWARD LEAP FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLABOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH PROJECT: $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKenwood Oakland Community Organization: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE: $4,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBERKSHIRE GARDEN CENTER INC DBA BERKSHIRE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $3,350 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $2,825 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLES KITCHEN PHILLY: $2,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetTHE GLADWYNE MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGuardian Training: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIKKUN OLAM FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnicorn Riot: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetInfact DBA Corporate Accountability: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKADIMA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMake the Road New York: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RUCKUS SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…The Ford FoundationTides FoundationWallace Global Fund IIProteus Fund IncNEO Philanthropy IncImpactassetsincCenter for Popular De…National Philanthropi…The Robert Wood Johns…The William & Flora H…Jewish Community Fede…
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC30.6× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Tides Foundation · Wallace Global Fund II · Proteus Fund Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Impactassetsinc · Center for Popular Democracy Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Opportunity Project Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Montclair Film Festival Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Edith Wharton Restoration Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Berkshire Garden Center Inc Dba Berkshire Botanical Garden Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 Sagner Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Sagner Family 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 148 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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