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SAGE HILL SCHOOL

SAGE HILL SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,734,378 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,759,909). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$43M
Funders on record
44
Grants received
$9.7M
Net assets
$122M
32/44 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Sage Hill School does

Mission

We inspire in our students a love of knowledge and the ability to use that knowledge creatively, compassionately and courageously throughout their lives.Sage Hill School's commitment to academic excellence and our outstanding college preparation have provided a transformative experience for our students. Academic excellence - sage hill offers a rigorous, comprehensive curriculum that challenges and inspires students to take risks, think critically, and use what they learn in class in the world beyond our campus. Our world-class educators teach classes that average sixteen students and foster curiosity, discovery, and a passion for learning.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Sage Hill School is an independent high school located on 30 acres in newport coast, california. The school provides more than 560 students with small class sizes that average 16 students per teacher, outstanding academic curricula and a dedicated team of college counselors. The school offers its students a rich and dynamic curriculum that promotes critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity. Outside the classroom, students are encouraged to participate in athletics, explore their artistic abilities, and engage in the world beyond the campus through service to the community, internships and educational travel.

    $27,242,491 spentof which $3,639,682 as grants$32,713,445 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $27,242,491.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($25M) Expenses 100 ($22M) Net assets 100 ($76M)2018 Revenue 112 ($28M) Expenses 106 ($24M) Net assets 106 ($81M)2019 Revenue 106 ($27M) Expenses 115 ($26M) Net assets 108 ($82M)2020 Revenue 114 ($29M) Expenses 112 ($25M) Net assets 111 ($85M)2021 Revenue 112 ($28M) Expenses 115 ($26M) Net assets 121 ($92M)2022 Revenue 134 ($34M) Expenses 121 ($27M) Net assets 116 ($89M)2023 Revenue 118 ($30M) Expenses 134 ($30M) Net assets 121 ($92M)2024 Revenue 184 ($46M) Expenses 144 ($32M) Net assets 145 ($111M)2025 Revenue 170 ($43M) Expenses 157 ($35M) Net assets 160 ($122M)
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Revenue (170)Expenses (157)Net assets (160)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $148M to $202M (+37%).

$110M
$115M
$116M
$119M
$125M
$123M
$128M
$148M
$202M
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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
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2020
2021
2022
2023
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

16% of SAGE HILL SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,254 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.9M
’17
$4.7M
’18
$1.2M
’19
$3.7M
’20
$2.5M
’21
$6.9M
’22
−$15k
’23
$14M
’24
$7.8M
’25
16
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.

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Listed282828282726252423
Joined·+2+8+2+4+7+6+2+5
No longer listed·28258736
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 16 funders, grant income fell $949k → $562k.

16 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 HILL SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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

SAGE HILL SCHOOL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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

44% 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 HILL SCHOOL.

18%
largest funder
42%
top three
~12
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 32% · 2019 44% · 2020 34% · 2021 25% · 2022 29% · 2023 40% — growing more concentrated.

“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

32% of SAGE HILL SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

68% of SAGE HILL SCHOOL's grant income comes from California funders.

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MA
NJ
CA
DE
NC

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

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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

Against its field

SAGE HILL SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin18% · top quartile
Months of reserve15.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like SAGE HILL SCHOOL

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 17%Fundraising 5%

Governance

16
board members
94%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds SAGE HILL SCHOOL?
SAGE HILL SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,734,378 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,759,909). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SAGE HILL SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $9,734,378 in grants to SAGE HILL SCHOOL, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SAGE HILL SCHOOL?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,759,909 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SAGE HILL SCHOOL find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 44 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