· Private foundation
Agape Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $145k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHICAGO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $75,000 |
| LURIE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR | $25,075 |
| SEALKIDS | $15,000 |
| FEMALE STRONG | $10,000 |
| ST ISAAC JOGUES CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
| MISERICORDIA WOMEN'S LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| CLEARBROOK | $10,000 |
| RYAN LICHT FOUNDATION | $7,150 |
| NAZARETH ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| IGNATIA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Chicago Zoological Society8× · 2018–2025 · $268k · revenue +57%- BUBRADLEY UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +5%
- SWSESAME WORKSHOP6× · 2018–2024 · $133k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- GAGLENWOOD ACADEMYone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +6%
- SNSIGMA NU EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $20k
- NSNAWBO SPIRIT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $10k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.
The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite and empower the promise of youth. we nurture children, strengthen communities and believe that inherent in every child is the ability to succeed and thrive in life.
Girls inc of chicago provides programming for girls grades k-12 throughout the chicagoland area to inspire them to be strong, smart and bold. as developed by longstanding tax-exempt organization girls incorporated, our comprehensive…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
The organization is a nonprofit after school program that uses the power of running to teach girls, 3rd-8th grade, critical social emotional learning skills.
How this is measured
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 51 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Chicago Zoological Society ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SESAME WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds CLEARBROOK ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRLS IN THE GAME NFP ↗
- Who funds FEMALE STRONG ↗
- Who funds Giant Steps Illinois Inc ↗
- Who funds GLENWOOD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds IGNATIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEALKIDS ↗
- Who funds ELMHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CASA KANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT TRUST ↗
- Who funds Envision Unlimited ↗
- Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANITARIAN SERVICE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HINSDALE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE TUSKEGEE NEXT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOR AUTISTIC KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · AbbVie Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Dr Scholl Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Agape Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Agape Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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