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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.

$78k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
34
Grants FY2024
32
Organizations funded FY2023
13%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
30 to 33
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
9
Total assets, FY2024
$1.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Agape Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthEducationCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving33$77k21%
FY202332$66k13%
FY202233$71k6%
FY202132$65k0%
FY202033$54k12%
FY201930$36k7%
FY201832$37k19%
FY201730$37kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$89kReligion$85kHuman Services$75kFood & Nutrition$73kEducation$46kCivil Rights$24kHousing & Shelter$20kInternational$15kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
IA
PA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AL
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Womens Care Center$29,50086%
Feed My Starving Children Inc$20,50080%
Salvation Army$19,5008n/a
Food Group Minnesota Inc The$19,00080%
Immaculate Heart Media Inc$19,00080%
Marriage Material$17,500820%
Parkinson's Foundation Inc$17,00050%
Peacemaker Minnesota$14,50071%
Bellis$13,00082%
Sharing and Caring Hands Inc$12,50080%
Show all 34 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($130k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Agape Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWomens Care Center: $29,500 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetFeed My Starving Children Inc: $20,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFood Group Minnesota Inc The: $19,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetImmaculate Heart Media Inc: $19,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMarriage Material: $17,500 over 8y, 20% of budgetParkinson's Foundation Inc: $17,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPeacemaker Minnesota: $14,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetBellis: $13,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetSharing and Caring Hands Inc: $12,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetProlife Across America: $12,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUnion Gospel Mission Inc: $12,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMetro Meals on Wheels Inc: $11,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSecond Harvest Heartland: $11,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetElevate Life: $10,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetCradle of Hope: $8,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMarine Toys for Tots Foundation: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Orphans D/B/A Nph-Usa: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNew Life Family Services: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFreedomworks Incorporated: $5,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMarriage Encounter Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetThe Dynamic Catholic Institute: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCath League for Religious & Civil Rights: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCovenant House: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTwin Cities Public Television Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Harvest: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Philomena House Corp: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSound Choice Pharmaceutical Institute: $2,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTreehouse Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHope Farm School: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 31.

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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.

Catholic Community Foundation of MinnesotaMN21.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Agape Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Agape Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Agape Foundation

How much does Agape Foundation give?
Agape Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $77,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Agape Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (20%), Religion (19%), Human Services (17%).
Who are Agape Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Womens Care Center ($30k), Feed My Starving Children Inc ($21k), Salvation Army ($20k).
Does Agape Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Agape Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Agape Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota, The Minneapolis Foundation, Xcel Energy Foundation.
Where is Agape Foundation based?
Agape Foundation is based in MN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 56 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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