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Agur 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.

$208k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$94k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Religion$5.3MHuman Services$161kPublic Benefit$145kHealth$139kInternational$61kHousing & Shelter$52kCrime & Legal$38kRecreation & Sports$10k
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $94k
$10,608
Median grant
7
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ICM$93,800
GRACE COUNSELING CENTER$27,000
MULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINIST$23,000
INSIGHTS 4 MINISTRY$13,500
SHINING STARS FOUNDATION$11,200
MIES FOUNDATION$10,608
Individual grant recipient$10,000
SHEPHERD'S STAFF MISSION$6,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO$5,000
THE MASTERS CARES FOUNDATION$5,000
Individual grant recipient$1,479
THE KINGDOM CENTER$1,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE MASTERS CARES FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%HOPE AND HOME: $10k → 9%HOPE AND HOME: $5k → 9%HOPE AND HOME: $5k → 9%HOPE AND HOME: $5k → 9%HOPE AND HOME: $5k → 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
MT
IL
CA
CO
NE
KY
VA
AZ
NM
TX
FL
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.

22%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 27 repeat orgs$4.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +95% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
17

Total granted

$1.3M
$4.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+95%
+19%

Still filing today

33%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionInternationalHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsHealthOther
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

  • MN
    MULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $99k · revenue +34%
  • SS
    SHINING STARS FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +95%
  • HH
    HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO
    4× · 2017–2020 · $44k · revenue +176%

Funded once

  • LF
    LIFE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH OF FREDERICK
    one grant, 2019 · $2.5M
  • RM
    RENOVATE MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2018 · $1.7M
  • CO
    CITY OF FORT COLLINS
    one grant, 2021 · $145k
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
Sole Ministries

None

Religion
2
Crossroads Community International Fellowship Inc

Crossroads community international fellowship (ccif) is established for the purposes of training people in the christian ministry. our ministers and churches are united in doctrine and purpose. in the year 2025, there were over 300…

Religion
3
International Needs

International needs has the vision to transform lives and change communities by helping christian nationals serve both god and neighbor within their own countries.

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4
Hope's Promise Inc

To strengthen families through ethical, christ-centered foster care, adoption, and global orphan care.

Human Services
5
Connectree

Connectree's vision is to help missionaries have the care and support they need, financially, physically, emotionally and spiritually, to carry out the ministry that god has called them to do. our 5 distinctives are: missionary care,…

Community Improvement
6
Emmanne Ministries

We point people to jesus through loving action and the life-giving word.

International
7
Luz Para El Futuro

Breaking the cycle of poverty in Guatemala through education of impoverished children through education.

International
8
Project New Hope International

Publicly supported evangelical organization focused on community transformation and empowerment of impoverished neighborhoods in South America and around the world. Missionaries work with community leaders assisting them in various mission…

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9
Vision International Missions

To propagate the gospel of jesus christ; to examine candidates and appoint missionaries. to endorse missionary programs according to standards set forth in the new testament, to establish churches, church schools & mission societies in…

Religion
10
Twin Missions International

Mission work

Health
11
One Way Ministries

One Way Ministries exists to reach impoverished, desperate and forgotten people groups with the Gospel of Jesus Christ through a variety of venues including community outreach events, food and clothing distribution, construction projects,…

Religion
12
The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc

The christian broadcasting network's mission is preaching the gospel of jesus christ into all the world. cbn's mission is preaching the gospel of jesus christ into all the world. the mission of cbn and its affiliated organizations is to…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope and Home; the most unlike its peers is Multiplication Network Ministries. 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

15 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. 15 of the 47 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
13/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LIFE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH OF FREDERICK: $2,480,017 · OtherLIFE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH OF FREDERICKRENOVATE MINISTRIES: $1,675,000 · OtherRENOVATE MINISTRIESINTERNATIONAL COOPERATING MINISTRY: $400,227 · OtherINTERNATIONAL COOPERATING MINISTRY+31 more: $984,808 · Other+31 moreMULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES: $98,938 · ReligionMIES FOUNDATION INC: $15,608 · ReligionCHRISTIAN CHAPLAIN SERVICES INC: $5,000 · Religion+1 more: $2,500 · ReligionHOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $44,000 · Human ServicesHOPE AND HOME: $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE MASTER CARES FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesSHINING STARS FOUNDATION: $65,352 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsOrdinary Nurses Casa Tabito: $25,000 · InternationalASSIST INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,775 · InternationalMission Experience: $5,000 · InternationalBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $31,500 · Health
Other$5,540,052Religion$122,046Human Services$79,000Recreation & Sports$75,352International$35,775Health$31,500

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 budgetMULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES: $98,938 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetSHINING STARS FOUNDATION: $65,352 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetHOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $44,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSTEIGER INTERNATIONAL LIMITED: $44,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $31,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE AND HOME: $30,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetOrdinary Nurses Casa Tabito: $25,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetMIES FOUNDATION INC: $15,608 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetASSIST INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,775 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MASTER CARES FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN CHAPLAIN SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetOPEN WIDE FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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 MULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds SHINING STARS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds STEIGER INTERNATIONAL LIMITED ↗
  • Who funds BENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOPE AND HOME ↗
  • Who funds Ordinary Nurses Casa Tabito ↗
  • Who funds MIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds ASSIST INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Mission Experience ↗
  • Who funds THE MASTER CARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN CHAPLAIN SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds OPEN WIDE 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.

Christian Community F…Natl Christian Charit…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Renaissance Charitabl…National Philanthropi…Raymond James Charita…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…
Christian Community Foundation IncCO15.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 47 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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