Sae International
Warrendale, PA · EIN 25-1494402. Reported 119 grants totalling $1,487,365 to 77 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Sae International, the IRS classifies it under science & technology rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE U030) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 77 distinct organizations, with 12% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 39% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $9,750. Half of what it reported fell between $6,500 and $15,000; the smallest was $5,150 and the largest $62,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Board of Regents Nevada System of Higher Education | Reno, NV | $182,750 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Michigan Technological University | Houghton, MI | $61,800 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Virginia Tech | Blacksburg, VA | $61,750 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Pennsylvania State University | University Park, PA | $55,650 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | $53,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Texas | Austin, TX | $43,950 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $43,050 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | $42,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Texas A&m University | College Station, TX | $37,025 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta, GA | $36,250 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Trustees of Purdue University | West Lafayette, IN | $34,125 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Akron | Akron, OH | $32,750 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Oregon State University | Corvallis, OR | $32,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Kettering University | Flint, MI | $30,550 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Delaware | Newark, DE | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Rochester Institute of Technology | Rochester, NY | $28,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Gannon University | Erie, PA | $22,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Worcester, MA | $21,100 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California at Irvine | Irvine, CA | $19,920 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of Wisconsin | Platteville, WI | $19,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia | Charlottesvle, VA | $18,800 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Clemson University | Clemson, SC | $16,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $15,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Auburn University | Auburn, AL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Brigham Young University | Provo, UT | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| George Washington University | Ashburn, VA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Syracuse University | Syracuse, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Texas Tech University | Lubbock, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Columbia University | New York, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Detroit Mercy | Detroit, MI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Iowa | Iowa City, IA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of North Dakota | Grand Forks, ND | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Western Michigan University | Kalamazoo, MI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | $14,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Maryland | College Park, MD | $13,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sdsm&t Center for Alumni Relations & Advancement | Rapid City, SD | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| South Dakota State University Foundation | Brookings, SD | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Urbana, IL | $11,750 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Oklahoma State University | Stillwater, OK | $11,650 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | $11,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Central Florida | Clermont, FL | $11,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | $11,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Wisconsin | Platteville, WI | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nc Agricultural & Technical State Univ | Greensboro, NC | $10,800 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $10,650 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cal Poly Corporation | San Luis Obispo, CA | $9,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | Denver, CO | $9,300 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Regents of the University of Idaho | Moscow, ID | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Southern Illinois University- Carbondale | Carbondale, IL | $8,800 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Iowa State University | Ames, IA | $8,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Anderson University | Anderson, SC | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| William Marsh Rice University | Houston, TX | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ohio State University Foundation | Columbus, OH | $8,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Edp University of Puerto Rico Inc | San Juan, PR | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| North Carolina State University | Raleigh, NC | $7,850 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Florida | Gainesville, FL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Oklahoma | Norman, OK | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hope College | Holland, MI | $7,250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Case Western Reserve University | Cleveland, OH | $6,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Regents Univ of California | Los Angeles, CA | $6,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, PA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Columbus State Community College | Columbus, OH | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Houston | Houston, TX | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | Minneapolis, MN | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Rhode Island | Kingston, RI | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of the Pacific | Stockton, CA | $5,670 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| California State University | Long Beach, CA | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Boston University | Boston, MA | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lawrence Technological University | Southfield, MI | $5,350 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Puerto Rico | Mayaguez, PR | $5,225 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Florida International University Foundation Inc | Miami, FL | $5,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kent State University | Kent, OH | $5,150 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Oklahoma | Norman, OK | $5,150 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
26 of 77 (34%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 35 of 77 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 36 | $431,740 | $7,675 |
| 2022 | 24 | $337,400 | $11,500 |
| 2023 | 26 | $365,750 | $12,750 |
| 2024 | 33 | $352,475 | $8,600 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
12% of its giving went to organizations in Michigan. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $9,750 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Michigan.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Sae International's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 33 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 400 Commonwealth Drive, Warrendale, PA, 15096.
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