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The Saisei 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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2021
11
Grants FY2021
5
States reached
$443k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

77% of The Saisei Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to President And Fellows Of Harvard College, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year The Saisei Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

2
’19
2
’20
7
’21
3
’22
2
’23
1
’24

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

01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Education$7.3MHealth$887kScience & Tech$601kEnvironment$200kPhilanthropy$25kArts & Culture$25kOther$0
02FY2021 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $476k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
$99,710
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$442,982
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE$299,148
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$266,771
PSYCHEDELIC SCIENCE FUNDERS COLLABORATIVE$126,011
UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO$99,710
MCKENNA ACADEMY OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY INC$50,000
THE NOWAK SOCIETY$50,000
FUNGI FOUNDATION INC$50,000
CENTER FOR CONSCIOUSNESS MEDICINE$25,000
FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND$20,000
02The need
03

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 US giving — 90% of grant dollars ($8.6M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 10% that went abroad ($1.0M) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $321k → 8%MCKENNA ACADEMY OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY INC: $50k → 8%SOCIAL GOOD FUND: $25k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY: $267k → 10%CENTER FOR CONSCIOUSNESS MEDICINE: $25k → 11%MULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES: $492k → 13%MAPS: $508k → 14%POOSPATUCK CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $25k → 7%PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $342k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND: $40k → 17%FUNGI FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 20%HEFFTER RESEARCH: $75k → 9%THE NOWAK SOCIETY: $50k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE PEACE PARKS: $100k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $200k → 9%AMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM: $50k → 4%WOLAKOTA WALDORF SOCIETY: $10k → 42%LSU HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50k → 23%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1.4M → 19%PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $299k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $267k → 10%MULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOC FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES: $50k → 13%PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $342k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND: $20k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO: $100k → 20%HEFFTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $75k → 9%JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1.4M → 19%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $267k → 10%PSYCHEDELIC SCIENCE FUNDERS COLLABORATIVE: $126k → 13%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $443k → 19%PSFC GRANT ACCOUNT: $50k → 13%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $443k → 19%JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $443k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
NY
MA
SD
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
LA

Beyond the US — 10% of all-years giving ($1.0M)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
United Kingdom$1.0M · 4 grants

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 17% of The Saisei Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The Saisei Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 18% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.8M · 6 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +122% since the first grant, against -15% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2021, 3 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, 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

6
5

Total granted

$5.8M
$597k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+122%
-15%

Still filing today

33%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthInternationalEnvironmentScience & TechArts & CultureOther

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

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2020–2022 · $2.3M · revenue +42%
  • JH
    JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2019–2023 · $1.9M
  • IC
    IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE
    2× · 2022–2023 · $600k

Funded once

  • MA
    MULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES
    one grant, 2020 · $492k
  • MA
    MULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES INC
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -48%
  • CS
    COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
University of Maryland Neurology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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2
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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3
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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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
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
6
University of Maryland Facultyphysicians Inc

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…

Health
7
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

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8
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
9
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
10
University of Maryland Eye Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
11
Park University

Park university's mission is to transform lives through accessible, student-centered, quality higher education.

Education
12
Mcphs University

Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wolakota Waldorf Society and the most unlike its peers is The Nowak Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 30 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
2/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $1,885,964 · OtherJOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITYIMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE — $600,000 · OtherIMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCEUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA — $533,542 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAMAPS — $507,759 · OtherMAPSMULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES — $492,241 · OtherMULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION PSYCHEDELIC STUDIESIMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON — $400,000 · OtherIMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDONUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY — $266,911 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON — $200,000 · Other+9 more — $580,721 · Other+9 moreJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $2,328,946 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $1,304,397 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College+4 more — $185,000 · EducationLSU HEALTH FOUNDATION NEW ORLEANS — $50,000 · HealthMULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES INC — $50,000 · HealthGATHER WELL PSCHEDELICS INC — $25,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF THE PEACE PARKS INC — $100,000 · InternationalAMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM — $50,000 · Science & TechFUNGI FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · EnvironmentPOOSPATUCK CULTURAL FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$5,467,138Education$3,818,343Health$125,000International$100,000Science & Tech$50,000Environment$50,000Arts & Culture$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $2,328,946 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $1,304,397 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PEACE PARKS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND INC — $60,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetLSU HEALTH FOUNDATION NEW ORLEANS — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NOWAK SOCIETY — $50,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetAMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFUNGI FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetMCKENNA ACADEMY OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetGATHER WELL PSCHEDELICS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOOSPATUCK CULTURAL FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetWOLAKOTA WALDORF SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
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.

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.

Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Saisei 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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