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Agape Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Women's Care Center | $10,000 |
| St Raphaels School | $5,000 |
| Parkinsons Foundation | $4,000 |
| Catholic services Appeal | $4,000 |
| Twin Cities Marriage Encounter | $3,000 |
| St John Vianey College | $3,000 |
| Minnesota Food Share | $3,000 |
| St Paul Seminary | $3,000 |
| Catholic Charities | $3,000 |
| Peacemaker Minnesota | $3,000 |
| Salvation Army | $3,000 |
| Feed my Starving Children | $3,000 |
| The Food Group | $3,000 |
| Relevant Radio | $3,000 |
| Metro Meals on Wheels | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
43 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- WCWOMENS CARE CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue +319%
- FMFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $21k · revenue +83%
- FGFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE8× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- SJSAINT JOHN VIANNEY COLLEGE SEMINARYone grant, 2020 · $2k
- ATADULT TEEN CHALLENGEone grant, 2022 · $2k
- CHCHILDRENS HOME SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…
Good counsel, inc. is a not-for-profit organization rooted in the first principles of catholic morality concerning the dignity of every human person. good counsel recognizes the dignity of god-given life from the moment of conception,…
Since 1986, open your heart to the hungry and homeless has worked to ensureevery minnesotan is free from hunger and homelessness. by partnering with organizations serving those in need, we grow donor engagement and raise awareness to…
Hope ministries is one of the largest private providers of free meals, safe shelter, and comprehensive life-recovery support for homeless, near-homeless, and hungry men, women, and children in iowa. the mission of hope ministries is to…
Provide christ-centered, life-transforming solutions to persons facing hunger, homelessness, addiction, and trauma. the phoenix rescue mission is a place of hope, healing, and new beginnings for men, women, and children in our community.
To protect the unborn, share the gospel, and transform our communities one life at a time.
Cathedral center's mission is to provide a safe environment for women and families, while working to end homelessness one life at a time. the cathedral center serves unaccompanied women and families with children who are homeless or…
To provide christian based outreach to clients by providing services and information free of charge to anyone in a crisis pregnancy situation, with the goal of assisting the client to carry the pregnancy to term and with continued care…
Our mission is to glorify god by being a witness for life, promoting purity, protecting the unborn and offering support to families. we serve clients seeking pregnancy and parenting education, material assistance, and emotional and…
Miracle hill ministries is committed to life transformation for children and adults experiencing homelessness. more information and program outcomes may be found at www.miraclehill.org.
See Schedule O.Established in 1895, Missions Inc. Programs is a multi-service non-profit organization with a long history of providing services to those who are most in need, each year offering thousands of people, whose lives have been…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 56 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds WOMENS CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE ↗
- Who funds IMMACULATE HEART MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds MARRIAGE MATERIAL ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEACEMAKER MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds BELLIS ↗
- Who funds SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds PROLIFE ACROSS AMERICA ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds METRO MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds Elevate Life ↗
- Who funds Cradle of Hope ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FREEDOMWORKS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CATH LEAGUE FOR RELIGIOUS & CIVIL RIGHTS ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · The Minneapolis Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Chase Family Foundation · Larkin Hoffman Daly & Lindgren Ltd Found · The Graco Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · United Way Worldwide · The US Charitable Gift Trust · American Endowment Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Agape Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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