Sager Family Traveling Foundation and Road Show
ActivePhilanthropy & Voluntarism
About Sager Family Traveling Foundation and Road Show
The foundation makes a very small number of large, unrestricted grants that support religious and spiritual organizations, both local and faith‑based educational initiatives. Its giving suggests interest in fostering religious life and theological/scientific learning within monastic and church contexts rather than funding many small projects or secular services.
Focus Areas
Support for Christian congregational life and ministry in Boston (e.g., historic Park Street Church)Religious education bridging faith and science for Buddhist monastics (e.g., Science for Monks)Unrestricted operating support for faith‑based institutions
Who They Fund
nonprofit organizations (unspecified)organizations across multiple sectors (unspecified)
Giving Approach
Highly concentrated giving: very few (two) large grants in the dataset, both general/unrestricted, indicating preference for sizable, flexible support to selected faith organizations rather than broad or numerous small grants.
Funding Style
About Sager Family Traveling Foundation and Road Show
The Sager Family Traveling Foundation and Road Show Inc. has made its largest recent commitment to Science for Monks, awarding $226,209 in 2025 for general and unrestricted support. That grant sits alongside a pattern of sizable, flexible gifts to religious and educational institutions, including $156,871 to Park Street Church in 2023 and $18,000 to The Vilna Shul Boston Center for Jewish Culture Inc. in 2024. The foundation’s recent record points to a clear preference for unrestricted funding rather than restricted project grants, with support flowing to organizations tied to Christian congregational life, Buddhist study, and other faith-centered work. Its portfolio also reaches beyond explicitly religious recipients in a few cases, but the dominant thread is steady backing for institutions that sustain spiritual practice, religious education, and related community life. Across the latest grants on file, the foundation appears to favor a small set of comparatively large awards over many small transactions, and its grants often land in Boston-based organizations while also extending to a limited number of groups outside Massachusetts and one recipient in India.
What Sager Family Traveling Foundation and Road Show Funds
A defining area in the foundation’s recent giving is religious education that connects faith with learning. In 2025, it gave $226,209 to Science for Monks for general and unrestricted support, a grant that suggests sustained investment in Buddhist monastic education. Christian congregational life is another visible theme: Park Street Church received $156,871 in 2023 for general and unrestricted support. The foundation also supported Jewish cultural infrastructure through a $18,000 unrestricted grant to The Vilna Shul Boston Center for Jewish Culture Inc. in 2024. Beyond explicitly faith-based institutions, its grants include general support to organizations such as The Fund for Parks & Recreation in Boston and Food for the Poor, showing that some giving extends into broader community and humanitarian work.
How Sager Family Traveling Foundation and Road Show Gives
Grant sizes range from $750 at the 25th percentile to $4,100 at the median and $10,000 at the 75th percentile, though the recent list also includes a few much larger awards. The pattern is concentrated rather than frequent: several recipients appear more than once across 2023 to 2025, including Malden High School Alumni Association and National Multiple Sclerosis Society, which points to recurring support for at least some organizations. The foundation is a nonprofit grantmaker with annual grants of $483,230 and total assets of $2,043,994. Its recent awards are listed as general and unrestricted, indicating flexible funding rather than tightly earmarked project grants.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$51K
Total Assets
$1.9M
Total Revenue
$3K
Total Expenses
$158K
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $750 and $10K, with a median of $4K.
25th Percentile
$750
Median
$4K
75th Percentile
$10K
Geographic Reach
Regional5 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Where Sager Family Traveling Foundation and Road Show Funds
Top 2 recipient countries by grant volume for Sager Family Traveling Foundation and Road Show.
| Rank | Country | Grants | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United StatesDomestic | 25 | $745K | 92.6% |
| 2 |
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