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SAGE CENTER FOR LEARNING INC

SAGE CENTER FOR LEARNING INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $270,014 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($186,750). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$6.9M
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$270k
Net assets
$6.9M
7/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Sage Center for Learning Inc does

Mission

The sage school's mission is to prepare gifted students to excel, by providing a comprehensive program of academic rigor and social growth inspired by passionate teachers within a nurturing community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide for the educational needs of intellectually gifted children. This is accomplished through innovative educational programs.

    $5,480,911 spentof which $1,059,725 as grants$6,281,916 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,480,911.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.7M) Expenses 100 ($4.4M) Net assets 100 ($4.2M)2018 Revenue 103 ($4.9M) Expenses 109 ($4.7M) Net assets 103 ($4.3M)2019 Revenue 110 ($5.2M) Expenses 115 ($5.0M) Net assets 109 ($4.5M)2020 Revenue 119 ($5.6M) Expenses 127 ($5.5M) Net assets 112 ($4.7M)2021 Revenue 120 ($5.7M) Expenses 122 ($5.3M) Net assets 122 ($5.1M)2023 Revenue 144 ($6.8M) Expenses 138 ($6.0M) Net assets 157 ($6.5M)2024 Revenue 137 ($6.5M) Expenses 153 ($6.7M) Net assets 154 ($6.4M)2025 Revenue 145 ($6.9M) Expenses 148 ($6.5M) Net assets 165 ($6.9M)
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Revenue (145)Expenses (148)Net assets (165)

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 $9.1M to $9.5M (+5%).

$9.1M
$9.1M
$9.5M
$9.6M
$10M
$11M
$11M
$11M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$379k
’17
$121k
’18
$194k
’19
$116k
’20
$373k
’21
$828k
’23
−$187k
’24
$419k
’25
11
months of
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

Trindad Grange Kyner

Chair, board

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1415151613141415
Joined·+1+2+4+2·+5+6
No longer listed·0235·55
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $34k → $23k.

6 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 CENTER FOR LEARNING INC’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 CENTER FOR LEARNING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

94% 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 CENTER FOR LEARNING INC.

69%
largest funder
88%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 82% · 2019 80% · 2020 99% · 2021 98% · 2022 58% · 2023 59% — 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

75% of SAGE CENTER FOR LEARNING INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

94% of SAGE CENTER FOR LEARNING INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $17k that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 3 states.

NY
MA
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
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’21
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $253k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like SAGE CENTER FOR LEARNING INC

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 Massachusetts

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 13%Fundraising 3%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds SAGE CENTER FOR LEARNING INC?
SAGE CENTER FOR LEARNING INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $270,014 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($186,750). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SAGE CENTER FOR LEARNING INC have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $270,014 in grants to SAGE CENTER FOR LEARNING INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SAGE CENTER FOR LEARNING INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $186,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SAGE CENTER FOR LEARNING INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 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