Washington · Nonprofit
SAGE BIONETWORKS
SAGE BIONETWORKS (Washington) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,974,439 to it, the largest being CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ($6,657,822). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $25M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $40M
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What Sage Bionetworks does
Mission
Sage Bionetworks is on a mission to drive a new age of discovery through truly open science and radical collaboration. We aim to create a world where silos within and across science and technology no longer exist, forging a path to optimal human health.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Research Communities and Challenges: Sage Bionetworks conducts research independently as well as with collaborators worldwide across a variety of disease areas. We work to redefine how complex biological data is gathered, shared and used through open systems, incentives, and norms. Our work includes the building of platforms and services and undertaking research developing predictors relating to health. Research: As biological research has become more data intensive, the breadth of data and expertise required to address research problems has expanded. It requires the integrated efforts of a distributed set of researchers (such as bench/data scientists, data engineers, project managers, administrators, governance experts, and clinical researchers) with shared interests and complementary resources. Effective collaboration depends on a collective ability to work together in trusted ways that lead to translatable biomedical insights. We call this scientific coordination. Sage's scientific coordination stack includes: 1) hypothesis and data generation, 2) data curation, 3) analysis, 4) interpretation, and 5) dissemination. We focus on building a federated network of individuals who…
$18,967,765 spentof which $1,771,385 as grants$20,316,141 earned by the program78% of program spendingDigital Health: Smartphones and other wearable sensors have put touchscreens and high-fidelity sensors into the pockets of billions of people. These technologies provide an opportunity to paint a rich understanding of health and disease in the everyday world outside of the clinic. They also provide communication tools that allow participants a more active voice in research programs. With our Digital Health program, we work to advance health research through practices that support the design, development and implementation of studies that use technology to monitor health outside of the clinical setting, and the analysis and sharing of the resulting study data. We help to derive and test digital biomarkers. We evaluate analytical methodologies to benchmark best practices in study design and data analysis. Sage's Digital Health program is built around Bridge, a technology platform for conducting biomedical research. Bridge is composed of HIPAA-compliant web services and multi-language SDKs that facilitate: registration and informed consent to participate in research; web-based tools to design and schedule study surveys and sensor-based tasks; acquisition and secure transfer of…
$5,472,600 spentof which $406,231 as grants$6,005,445 earned by the program22% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $24,440,365.
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 2021 to 2022, from $7.3M to $11M (+54%).
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: 2017 59% · 2018 59% · 2019 72% · 2020 71% · 2021 61% · 2022 71% · 2023 72% · 2024 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of SAGE BIONETWORKS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (52% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Stephen Friend
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 15 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $3.1M → $5.3M.
5 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of SAGE BIONETWORKS’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
SAGE BIONETWORKS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% 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
84% 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 SAGE BIONETWORKS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 51% · 2019 21% · 2020 35% · 2021 35% · 2022 27% · 2023 21% — 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
65% of SAGE BIONETWORKS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% 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
SAGE BIONETWORKS draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
SAGE BIONETWORKS has grown faster than half of the 149 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 149 science & tech nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding SAGE BIONETWORKS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $60.1M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$60.0M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$70k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SAGE BIONETWORKS
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAGE BIONETWORKS: 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 SAGE BIONETWORKS?
- SAGE BIONETWORKS (Washington) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,974,439 to it, the largest being CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ($6,657,822). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAGE BIONETWORKS have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $39,974,439 in grants to SAGE BIONETWORKS, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAGE BIONETWORKS?
- CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,657,822 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAGE BIONETWORKS 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 25 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing