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Agape Foundation Charitable Trust at a glance

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Agape Foundation Charitable Trust

To support, or carry out the purposes of, the class of 501(c)(3), 509(a)(1), & 509(a)(2) organizations (the "supported class") that promote/perform education and/or christian activities, including (but not limited to) christian evangelism, edification and stewardship.

$2.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$567k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$6.4MEducation$5.3MPhilanthropy$1.6MReligion$1.2MHuman Services$376kRecreation & Sports$260kHealth$195kCivil Rights$140kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $151k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $387k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.8M
$50,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EAST SIDE UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT$566,510
CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA WATERSTONE$500,000
YOUNG LIFE$488,477
PRO ATHLETES OUTREACH$250,000
SACRED HEART SCHOOLS$175,000
THE CENTER FOR BECOMING$100,000
ST CECILIA'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$62,000
MILITARY COMMUNITY YOUTH MINISTRIES$50,000
FRANKLIN-MCKINLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT$41,340
USA TRANSFORM DBA UNITED IN PURPOSE TEXAS$40,000
TURNING POINT USA$30,000
FOUNDATIONS FOR FAMILIES$10,000
LANAI CULTURAL & HERITAGE CENTER$10,000
CAMP FOR ALL FOUNDATION$10,000
LHES FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $358k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SACRAMENTO CHINESE COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER: $268k → 12%KERN COUNTY NETWORK FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 18%FOUNDATIONS FOR FAMILIES: $10k → 9%FOUNDATIONS FOR FAMILIES: $10k → 9%FOUNDATIONS FOR FAMILIES: $10k → 9%FOUNDATIONS FOR FAMILIES: $10k → 9%FOUNDATIONS FOR FAMILIES: $10k → 9%FOUNDATIONS FOR FAMILIES: $10k → 9%FOUNDATIONS FOR FAMILIES: $10k → 9%FOUNDATIONS FOR FAMILIES: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MI
IN
CA
CO
MO
NC
HI
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 20 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
14

Total granted

$13M
$666k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+15%

Still filing today

70%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $342k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesInternationalHealthArts & CultureOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $5.4M · revenue +59%
  • AS
    ALL STARS HELPING KIDS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $400k · revenue +36%
  • MC
    MILITARY COMMUNITY YOUTH MINISTRIES
    8× · 2017–2025 · $400k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • SC
    SACRAMENTO CHINESE COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $268k · revenue +410%
  • NC
    NEW COMMUNITY CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • RU
    REACH UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +129%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
2
Kingdom Advisors Inc

Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…

Religion
3
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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4
Youth for Christ International Ministries

As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.

Religion
5
The King's University

The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.

Education
6
Biglife International Inc

Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.

Recreation & Sports
7
Landmark Christian School

Landmark christian school partners with christian families by equipping college-bound students to embrace a christ-centered worldview, grow as servant leaders, and steward god's unique purpose for their lives.

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8
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
9
Los Angeles Mission Inc

The los angeles mission breaks the cycle of homelessness and poverty, by stabilizing people in a safe and spiritual environment, connecting them to solutions and walking with them on their journey.

Housing & Shelter
10
Hanalani Schools

Hanalani schools is an independent, christian day school. it is nondenominational and protestant. a bible-centered curriculum provides the most effective means and environment to educate the total child mentally, socially, physically,…

Education
11
Global Media Outreach

Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.

Religion
12
The King's University

The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life; the most unlike its peers is Kern County Network for Children. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 39 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
19/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EAST SIDE UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT: $3,945,999 · OtherEAST SIDE UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICTSACRED HEART SCHOOLS ATHERTON: $1,025,000 · OtherSACRED HEART SCHOOLS ATHERTONMENLO PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $420,000 · OtherMENLO PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHALL STARS HELPING KIDS INC: $400,000 · OtherALL STARS HELPING KIDS INCMILITARY COMMUNITY YOUTH MINISTRIES: $400,000 · OtherMILITARY COMMUNITY YOUTH MINISTRIES+15 more: $720,344 · Other+15 moreYOUNG LIFE: $5,421,477 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE+3 more: $295,400 · Youth DevelopmentCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,600,000 · PhilanthropyCHRISTIAN C…+1 more: $30,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CENTER FOR BECOMING: $350,000 · ReligionPro Athletes Outreach: $250,000 · ReligionUSATransform: $165,000 · ReligionCRAZY LOVE MINISTRIES: $50,000 · ReligionMISSIONS INC: $50,000 · Religion+2 more: $23,000 · ReligionSACRAMENTO CHINESE COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER INC: $268,206 · Human ServicesFOUNDATIONS FOR FAMILIES: $80,000 · Human Services+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN AVIATION: $110,000 · HealthREACH UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · Education
Other$6,911,343Youth Development$5,716,877Philanthropy$1,630,000Religion$888,000Human Services$358,206Health$110,000Education$60,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOUNG LIFE: $5,421,477 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,600,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetALL STARS HELPING KIDS INC: $400,000 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetMILITARY COMMUNITY YOUTH MINISTRIES: $400,000 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR BECOMING: $350,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetSACRAMENTO CHINESE COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER INC: $268,206 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetUSATransform: $165,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA: $160,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN AVIATION: $110,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetCamp For All Foundation: $85,400 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATIONS FOR FAMILIES: $80,000 over 8y, 29% of budgetHERITAGE ACADEMY: $60,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetREACH UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCRAZY LOVE MINISTRIES: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE HEIGHTS: $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMISSIONS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetRED OAK HOPE: $46,100 over 4y, 9.7% of budgetLANA'I CULTURE & HERITAGE CENTER: $46,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetLHES FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLanai Community Association: $17,500 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKern County Network for Children: $10,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetFULLNESS OF GLORY MINISTRIES: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSKY RANCHES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOLY LAND MISSIONS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ALL STARS HELPING KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds MILITARY COMMUNITY YOUTH MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR BECOMING ↗
  • Who funds SACRAMENTO CHINESE COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Pro Athletes Outreach ↗
  • Who funds USATransform ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN AVIATION ↗
  • Who funds Camp For All Foundation ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATIONS FOR FAMILIES ↗
  • Who funds HERITAGE ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds REACH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CRAZY LOVE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE HEIGHTS ↗
  • Who funds MISSIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds RED OAK HOPE ↗
  • Who funds LANA'I CULTURE & HERITAGE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LHES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
  • Who funds Lanai Community Association ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds Kern County Network for Children ↗
  • Who funds FULLNESS OF GLORY MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds SKY RANCHES INC ↗
  • Who funds HOLY LAND MISSIONS ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

Servant FoundationThe Signatry Charitab…The Living Stones Fou…Silicon Valley Commun…Greater Houston Commu…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Marin Community Found…Natl Christian Charit…ImpactassetsincAmerican Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…
Servant FoundationKS19.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · The Living Stones Foundation Charitable Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Marin Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Impactassetsinc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Agape Foundation Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Agape Foundation Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Agape Foundation Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Agape Foundation Charitable Trust 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.

    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 39 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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