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Agape Hands

The specific purpose of this corporation is, but not limited to, evangelism in any of its forms to share the love of jesus christ, training and education in all spheres of life according to the word of god, and mercy ministries in a variety of methods, as well as activities to mobilize youth, families, leaders and others for these…

$339k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$136k
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, FY2022 to 2025.

International$750k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $261,405, the rows itemized in this filing. The $338,647 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $77,242 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
$61,905
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YWAM Ventura GSI$136,000
YWAM San DiegoBaja$61,905
YWAM El PasoJuarez$52,000
Whole Heart International$11,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $5k → 13%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.

Grants abroad, by region: $57k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

East Asia and the Pacific$52k · 90% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: HUMANITARIAN AID

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$6k · 10% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: HUMANITARIAN AID

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$723k · 5 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue 0% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
2

Total granted

$723k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
-6%

Still filing today

60%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EducationReligionPhilanthropyInternationalHuman 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • YW
    Youth With A Mission Ventura - Global Strategic Initiatives
    4× · 2022–2025 · $337k · revenue +5% · 80% of their budget
  • YW
    YOUTH WITH A MISSION - SAN DIEGOBAJA
    4× · 2022–2025 · $206k
  • YW
    YOUTH WITH A MISSION - MADISON INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $139k · revenue -33%

Funded once

  • YW
    YOUTH WITH A MISSION-SLAVIC MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -88%
  • HH
    HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -6%
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
Salt With a Mission

Teach the ministry of christ

Religion
2
Discover Your Mission Inc

Supporing missionaries worldwide

Religion
3
Euromedia Missions
—
4
More International Ministries

To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades

Religion
5
Heart Bridge International

Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…

Religion
6
Youth With a Mission Boise Cascade Inc

To work towards the great commission both locally and globally by partnering with the church to mobilize, equip, send and care for short-term teams and long-term workers who will take the gospel to the unreached.

Religion
7
Helping Hands Ministries

To support missionary work and helping needy

Religion
8
Youth Ministry International Inc

Our Purpose is to inspire young people to love God with all of their hearts. Our Mission is to empower young people to serve and love their neighbor-all of humanity-as they love love God.

—
9
Youth With a Mission Lebanon Pa

Missions training

Religion
10
Jesus in Vietnam Ministries
Religion
11
Silk Wave Mission

SWM Mission is an abbreviation for Silk Wave Mission, and is an organization that serves as a united prayer movement, church planting movement, and missionary church movement for spiritual recovery and revival in Turkey and the Islamic…

Religion
12
Cole Young Ministries

Ministry

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth With a Mission - San Diegobaja; the most unlike its peers is Biola University Inc. 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

8 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Youth With A Mission Ventura - Global Strategic Initiatives: $337,000 · EducationYouth With A Mission Ventura - Global Strategic Initia…BIOLA UNIVERSITY INC: $21,822 · EducationBIOLA UNIVERSITY INCYOUTH WITH A MISSION - SAN DIEGOBAJA: $205,560 · ReligionYOUTH WITH A MISSION - SAN DIEGOBAJAYOUTH WITH A MISSION - MADISON INC: $139,035 · ReligionYOUTH WITH A MISSION - MADISON INCSPRING ROAD KYIV MISSIONS CENTER: $20,000 · PhilanthropyWhole Heart International: $11,500 · OtherYOUTH WITH A MISSION-SLAVIC MINISTRIES: $10,000 · InternationalHELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $5,150 · Human Services
Education$358,822Religion$344,595Philanthropy$20,000Other$11,500International$10,000Human Services$5,150

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYouth With A Mission Ventura - Global Strategic Initiatives: $337,000 over 4y, 80% of budgetBIOLA UNIVERSITY INC: $21,822 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPRING ROAD KYIV MISSIONS CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetYOUTH WITH A MISSION-SLAVIC MINISTRIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $5,150 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.

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.

Natl Christian Charit…Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Hands funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Agape Hands. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 Hands?

    Find your warmest path to Agape Hands 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 8 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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