Sage Bionetworks
Seattle, WA · EIN 26-4489946. Reported 61 grants totalling $8,174,003 to 27 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 Sage Bionetworks, the IRS classifies it under science & technology rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE U50) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 27 distinct organizations, with 15% 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. 81% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $103,680. Half of what it reported fell between $45,331 and $194,842; the smallest was $5,313 and the largest $608,750. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Institute for Systems Biology | Seattle, WA | $1,242,531 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | $672,448 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Seven Bridges Genomics Inc | Boston, MA | $667,335 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of California | Oakland, CA | $616,322 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis Clinics Multicenter Advancement Ne | Roseville, CA | $608,750 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | $583,399 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | New York, NY | $564,887 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Pennsylvania State University | University Park, PA | $488,971 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | $370,167 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | $364,496 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Translational Genomics Research Institute | Phoenix, AZ | $265,674 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Mayo Clinic | Rochester, MN | $247,767 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | $210,007 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Oregon Health & Science University | Portland, OR | $200,191 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Trustees of Tufts College | Medford, MA | $189,637 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Trustees of Boston University | Boston, MA | $156,761 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Emory University | Atlanta, GA | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Arizona | Tucson, AZ | $85,883 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ochin Inc | Portland, OR | $80,884 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Tufts Medical Center Parent Inc | Boston, MA | $80,688 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Winsconsin-Madison | Madison, WI | $76,964 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Colorado Denver | Denver, CO | $74,512 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | New York, NY | $61,864 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ibm | Yorktown Heights, NY | $45,331 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $36,777 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Broad Institute Inc | Cambridge, MA | $6,757 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
16 of 27 (59%) 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 the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Psoriasis & Psoriatic Arthritis Clinics Multicenter Advancement Ne
Perform Psorcast validation studies, provide input and guidance throughout the development and execution of the study. - University of Washington
Wellcome is engaging the Supplier as a learning partner to prototype and test best ways to build a Global Mental Health Databank (GMH Databank) that holds rich longitudinal data at scale from different global locations on approaches, treatments and interventions potentially relevant to anxiety or depression in 14- 24 year olds in order to help answer the question: "what works for whom and why in relation to prevention, treatment, stopping relapse or managing ongoing difficulties for anxiety or depression including at least some 14-24 year olds" (the "Global Mental Health Databank" or "GMH Databank"). - Seven Bridges Genomics Inc (velsera)
EXCEPTIONAL LONGEVITY DATA MANAGEMENT AND COORDINATING CENTER, DEVELOP INTEGRATION BETWEEN SAGE'S DATA SHARING PORTAL, SYNAPSE, AND CABATICA. - Institute for Systems Biology
CRI Immune Atlas4: Platform for immune-oncology research and data sharing. Exceptional Longevity Data Management and Coordinating Center, design and perform cross-project analysis focused on harnessing systems biology-based techniques, such as multi-omic data integration, network analysis, machine learning, and statistical modeling, to investigate both aging and disease, as well as the interplay between them. - Pennsylvania State University
PHASE 1 AND 2: RECOVER MOBILE HEALTH PLATFORM/MOBILE HEALTH REPOSITORIES WORKING GROUP: DEVELOP PROCESS FOR MHP TO COLLECT PASC RELATED MOBILE HEALTH DATA FROM PARTICIPANTS AND SHARE THIS DATA WITH MHDR TO CLEAN CURATE, CONDUCT QA/QC, STORE AND PROVIDE ACCESS TO RESEARCHERS. CUSTOMIZATION OF THE MOBILE HEALTH PLATFORM, IMPLEMENTATION OF MOBILE DATA COLLECTION AMONG THE VARIOUS STUDIES, AS WELL AS, THE STORING, CURATION, LINKAGE, AND ANALYSES OF THE MOBILE HEALTH DATA. - Mayo Clinic
i) Enhance natural language processing (NLP) capabilities across CTSA institutions through community engagement and ii) Accelerate the use of clinical narratives for rapid COVID-19 clinical research through team science collaboration.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 16 of 27 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 | 15 | $2,823,993 | $156,761 |
| 2022 | 16 | $1,193,878 | $43,163 |
| 2023 | 13 | $2,076,621 | $164,066 |
| 2024 | 17 | $2,079,511 | $103,680 |
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
23% of its giving went to organizations in Washington. 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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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 $103,680 -- 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 Washington.
- 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 Sage Bionetworks'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 15 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 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: 2901 Third Ave 330, Seattle, WA, 98121.
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