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SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC
SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC (New York) receives grants from 205 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,757,254 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($8,485,650). 115 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $22M
- Funders on record
- 205
- Grants received
- $36M
- Net assets
- $20M
What Services and Advocacy for Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender Elders Inc does
Mission
Services and advocacy for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender elders, inc. (sage) is the country's largest and oldest organization dedicated to improving the lives of lgbtq+ older adults. In partnership with our constituents and allies, sage works to achieve a high quality of life for lgbtq+ older people, supports and advocates for their rights, fosters a greater understanding of aging in all communities, and promotes positive images of lgbtq+ life in later years. We fulfill our mission through advocacy and by providing direct services, training, education, and technical assistance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Services and programs: sage offers innovative services and programs for lgbtq+ older people and their peers across new york city and south florida, and nationwide through the capacity-building work of our sagecollab member organizations. From arts and culture to housing, financial wellness, healthy aging, and overall wellbeing, sage provides both in person and virtual programs including sageyou and sagecents that support thousands of lgbtq+ older adults and their peers in communities around the country. To meet the needs of specific communities, sage offers programming designed to support transgender and non-binary older adults, veterans, and people aging with hiv. The agency's friendly visitor volunteer program, a lifeline for many lgbtq+ elders in new york city, also operates in south florida. In addition, sagecare, our premier lgbtq+ cultural competency training program equips aging-services providers, long-term care facilities, and other organizations with best practices for effectively supporting and engaging lgbtq+ older adults and their peers.
$16,627,821 spentof which $274,505 as grants$744,867 earned by the program89% of program spendingPublic outreach: sage advocates at the federal, state and local levels for public policies to improve the aging experience and access to aging services among the growing population of lgbtq+ older people and older people living with hiv. Our federal policy program works to ensure that policymakers in congress and the administration enact policies that address the needs of lgbtq+ older people and older people living with hiv. Additionally, sage works with lgbtq+ organizations and advocates around the country to develop and achieve their local and state policy agendas. Sage builds the capacity of community-based organizations nationwide to provide services and to engage in policy advocacy that improves the lives of their local constituents, building a national lgbtq+ aging movement.
$2,004,771 spentof which $44,618 as grants11% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $18,632,592.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $27M to $36M (+33%).
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 43% · 2018 30% · 2019 33% · 2020 26% · 2021 24% · 2022 31% · 2023 39% · 2024 40% · 2025 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 34 funders to 90 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $3.9M.
40 of 205 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 205 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
SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
54% 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 SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 57% · 2019 20% · 2020 21% · 2021 72% · 2022 20% · 2023 13% — 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
44% of SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC'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
SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 24 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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.
Government funding SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.5M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.5M
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 SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 27 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Sage Crotona · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC: 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 SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC?
- SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC (New York) receives grants from 205 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,757,254 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($8,485,650). 115 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 205 organizations giving $35,757,254 in grants to SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC, 115 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $8,485,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 205 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