Washington · Nonprofit
PUGET SOUND SAGE
PUGET SOUND SAGE (Washington) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,416,469 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($1,795,904). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $7.4M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Puget Sound Sage does
Mission
Puget Sound Sage combines research, innovative public policy and organizing to ensure all people have an affordable place to live, a good job, a clean environment, and access to public transportation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Equitable development our equitable development work focused on 2 campaigns in 2024. Our first campaign, king county equitable development initiative (edi), led our crest coalition members in advocating to build regional infrastructure for community-driven projects outside of seattle city limits. Our team worked hard to advocate for 13,000,000 of dedicated funding at the county level to fund future edi programs. Our second campaign was working in partnership with partner organizations to organize the chinatown/international district community in working with sound transit to develop transit station alternatives and fight for culturally relevant development options and neighborhood investments. In 2024 we facilitated 3 community assemblies and 4 residential meetings, talking with hundreds of cid elders, workers and residents. We gathered community feedback through 150 completed surveys and held neighborhood walking tours to educate stakeholders.
$248,484 spent26% of program spendingClimate as part of our climate work, we sit on seattle's green new deal (gnd) board to participate in crafting and funding a regional carbon-reduction strategy. In 2024, our gnd board representative maintained their leadership position as co-chair of the board. Under her leadership, the gnd board developed policy for climate resilience hubs which will help the city of seattle prepare, adapt and recover from climate/environmental crises. Outside of the board, we convened the environmental justice kitchen coalition, where 14 community organizations met to identify environmental justice priorities and strategies to present to the gnd board. During these meetings we discussed frameworks for community-led climate resilience projects to be funded by the city of seattle.
$274,225 spent29% of program spendingLeadership institute the community leadership institute (cli) is a 6-month fellowship that trains emerging leaders in issues such as housing, land use, transit, climate and economic development. Graduates learn the nuts and bolts of local government processes such as municipal budgeting, parliamentary procedures, and lawmaking, as well as advocacy, storytelling and communication skills. In 2024, we awarded sage leaders, our sister organization who runs cli, with 150,000 to support 27 fellows from clark, king, snohomish and pierce counties in washington state. 70% of those graduates have applied to serve on boards and commissions. Our fall cohorts brought another 30 participants into our programs, and we engaged our 130 program alumni through various social events throughout the year.
$94,333 spentof which $65,000 as grants10% of program spendingAll other programs
$341,423 spentof which $86,511 as grants36% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $958,465.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $1.2M to $2.3M (+86%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 11% · 2020 28% · 2021 45% · 2022 20% · 2023 8% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of PUGET SOUND SAGE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Jill Mangaliman
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 17 funders, grant income fell $705k → $693k.
10 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.6M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Powerswitch Action). These are real filings, and they are not money PUGET SOUND SAGE raised.
From the IRS filings of PUGET SOUND SAGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
PUGET SOUND SAGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
61% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund PUGET SOUND SAGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 33% · 2019 29% · 2020 33% · 2021 27% · 2022 21% · 2023 24% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
39% of PUGET SOUND SAGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
65% of PUGET SOUND SAGE's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
PUGET SOUND SAGE is better cushioned than half of the 175 social science nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 175 social science nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like PUGET SOUND SAGE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Sage Leaders · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PUGET SOUND SAGE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PUGET SOUND SAGE?
- PUGET SOUND SAGE (Washington) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,416,469 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($1,795,904). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PUGET SOUND SAGE have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $7,416,469 in grants to PUGET SOUND SAGE, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PUGET SOUND SAGE?
- SEATTLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,795,904 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PUGET SOUND SAGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 52 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing