Sageview Foundation

Sageview Foundation is a small, founder-directed family foundation run by Randy and Mary Long out of Newport Beach, California, established in 2012-2013 (IRS ruling January 2013) as a formal outgrowth of the Longs' personal mission and community-service work. It is not a proposal-mill funder: it has no online LOI portal, no posted deadline, and no application form URL in its own IRS or web-enrichment records. The stated process — "a formal request outlining details related to the organization you are requesting funds to support" — is intentionally lightweight and informal, consistent with a foundation that gives primarily to organizations it already knows through direct relationships, mission trips, and faith-based networks. The clearest signal in the data is relationship depth over breadth: of the top grantees, nearly every one (Sage Community Foundation Rwanda, Hope International, Northrise University, Edify Organization, Orange County Rescue Mission, Institute for Discipleship Training) shows a grant_count of exactly 3, meaning the same partners were funded three years running at stable dollar amounts. First-time applicants should understand they are competing not for a fixed annual RFP cycle but for a seat at a fairly small, slow-turning table — the foundation held only 74 total recorded grants across its history. Two organization types are clearly favored: (1) faith-based or mission-driven development and discipleship organizations working internationally (Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Malawi), and (2) Orange County/Newport Beach-area human-services nonprofits (Orange County Rescue Mission, Boys and Girls Club Central OC) plus a secondary cluster of Virginia-based human-services groups (Feed More, Habitat for Humanity, Blue Sky Fund). A realistic relationship progression here starts with a warm introduction — through a shared missions network, a board connection, or a partner organization already funded (Hope International, Edify, Akilah Institute) — followed by a written funding request rather than a formal grant application, and likely a period of informal vetting before any commitment, given the founder-led governance (Randall C. Long, President; Mary Long, Secretary; Jonathan Upham, VP; Mark Hendrickson, Treasurer — all uncompensated, signaling a hands-on volunteer board rather than a staffed program office).

Sageview's own typical-grant-size data (n=19) shows a median grant of $10,000, an average of $18,706, and a range from $1,000 to $116,603 — but the fuller 74-grant/$973,053 lifetime grantee dataset tells a more concentrated story. The single largest relationship, Sage Community Foundation Rwanda (the foundation's own in-country program partner), received $304,000 across 3 grants — nearly a third of all recorded giving — reflecting that Sageview increasingly functions as an operating funder of its own Rwanda programs (Sage Community Foundation, Sunripe Farms) rather than a pure pass-through grantmaker. Outside that flagship relationship, awards drop sharply: Hope International at $95,700 (3 grants), then a cluster of $50,000 commitments (Northrise University, Edify Organization), $45,000 (Orange County Rescue Mission), and a wide band of $25,000-$39,000 grants to faith-based and human-services groups. The median recorded grant across the full grantee list is roughly $10,000-$20,000, with a long tail down to $500-$2,500 gifts (Palm Beach County Food Bank at $513; Home Safe at $2,000). Geographically, California dominates with 26 of the roughly 65 domestically-tagged grants, followed by Virginia (7), Florida, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania (5 each), Colorado and Hawaii (4 each), and Missouri, North Carolina, and Texas (3 each) — with the remainder going to unlisted/international recipients in Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Malawi. Total annual giving has been volatile rather than steadily growing: $736,606 (2022), $542,012 (2021), $456,359 (2023), $273,827 (2020), $301,810 (2019) — figures that track net investment income and contribution inflows more than a fixed payout formula. Total assets have declined modestly from $6.36M (2021) to $5.42M (2024), and FY2024's return did not report a grants-paid figure, an information gap rather than a confirmed pause. Program-area breakdown by dollar volume favors international relief/education/microfinance and domestic human-services and youth-development causes roughly equally, with a distinct faith-based/discipleship thread running through both (Institute for Discipleship Training, Proverbs 31 Ministries, Grace Church, C2Adopt).

Sageview sits in a cohort of similarly small, single-family foundations clustered around the $5.4-5.6M asset mark, none of which maintain a public grants portal or published application process — a useful baseline for calibrating expectations before applying.

All five peers carry no public website in the underlying data, meaning Sageview is actually the more accessible option in this peer set purely by virtue of having a live website and a stated (if informal) request process. None of these peers publish payout rates, program guidelines, or deadlines, reinforcing that this entire asset tier of foundations operates on relationship-based, largely closed giving rather than competitive RFP cycles — grant seekers should treat a warm referral as more valuable here than a polished cold application.

Public activity from Sageview Foundation itself has been sparse in 2025-2026. The most concrete recent data point is the FY2024 Form 990-PF, filed around January 29, 2026, reporting $370,409 in total revenue and $5,423,100 in total assets — essentially flat against FY2023's $5,604,916 in assets, with no grants-paid or total-giving figure yet reflected in that filing. The foundation's own blog, its only public communications channel, has not published anything since 2023 (last items: a visit from Rwanda's Minister of Agriculture to Sunripe Farms, and coverage of the 2022 golf tournament fundraiser), so there is no evidence of new program launches, leadership changes, or announced funding initiatives in the past two years. Leadership has been stable and unchanged across the available records: Randall C. Long (President), Mary Long (Secretary), Jonathan Upham (Vice President), and Mark Hendrickson (Treasurer), all serving without compensation. The organization's most recent substantive activity documented on its website is continued operation of its two flagship Rwanda programs — Sage Community Foundation and Sunripe Farms — rather than new grantmaking announcements. Financially, the foundation's asset base has been in a slow, multi-year decline from a peak of $6.36M in 2021 to $5.42M in 2024, following a one-time $5.57M contribution inflow in 2020 that had temporarily inflated both revenue and the balance sheet. Grant seekers should read the lack of new public activity as a signal that Sageview continues operating quietly through its existing partner network rather than as a sign of instability.

Because Sageview Foundation has no online application portal, no posted deadline, and no published grant guidelines, treat any outreach as a direct written request rather than a form submission — the foundation's own instructions describe only "a formal request outlining details related to the organization you are requesting funds to support." Lead with alignment to the foundation's two explicit pillars: (1) healthcare and education for women and children in crisis, and (2) micro-financing and sustainable economic development, both domestically and internationally. Organizations working in Rwanda, East Africa more broadly, or on faith-based discipleship and community-development models are the closest fit to the existing portfolio (Sage Community Foundation Rwanda, Hope International, Northrise University, Edify Organization, Akilah Institute). A secondary, easier entry point is Orange County/Newport Beach-based human-services work — the foundation's home turf — where Orange County Rescue Mission and Boys and Girls Club Central OC have been repeat grantees. Given that nearly every top grantee shows exactly 3 consecutive years of identical-size grants, the realistic strategic goal for a new applicant is not a one-time gift but securing a first small grant (the data suggests $1,000-$25,000 is the realistic opening range for a non-flagship relationship) that could become a renewed 2-3 year commitment. The single biggest mistake an applicant could make is treating this like a large institutional funder — sending a generic, unsolicited LOI cold with no connection to the Longs, their missions network, or an already-funded partner organization is unlikely to break through a board that is entirely uncompensated volunteers (Randall Long, Mary Long, Jonathan Upham, Mark Hendrickson) managing this alongside other work. Instead, look for a warm path: a shared church or missions-trip network, a connection through an existing grantee (especially Hope International or Edify, both of which work through broad partner networks), or direct outreach via the foundation's Newport Beach address/phone (4000 MacArthur Blvd, (949) 955-3501) framed as a relationship inquiry rather than a grant application. Keep the funding ask concrete and modest — most awards cluster well under $50,000 — and be prepared to describe how the request creates "sustainable change," the exact phrase used in the foundation's own mission language.