Indiana · Private foundation
Apgar Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2025
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $38,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 49
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 21
- Total assets, FY2025
- $162k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Apgar Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $233k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 37 | $1.3M | 24% |
| FY2024 | 47 | $1.7M | 17% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $1.7M | 35% |
| FY2022 | 41 | $1.4M | 41% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $995k | 78% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $344k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $460k | 6% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $547k | 42% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clemson University Foundation | $600,000 | 6 | 0% |
| National Review Institute | $550,000 | 7 | 2% |
| American University | $500,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Texas Tech Foundation Inc | $450,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Lsu Foundation | $425,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University | $400,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Xavier University | $310,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Student Free Press Association | $285,000 | 8 | 6% |
| Certell Inc | $247,500 | 6 | 8% |
| The Becket Fund | $240,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 83 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Apgar Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 74 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Donors Trust Inc · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · Charles Koch Foundation · Beth and Ravenel Curry Foundation · Charles Koch Institute · The Seminar Network Inc · John William Pope Foundation · The Achelis & Bodman Foundation Co Manice & Budd LLP · Foundation For Excellence in Higher Education · Thomas W Smith Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Apgar Foundation Inc
- How much does Apgar Foundation Inc give?
- Apgar Foundation Inc reported 38 grants totaling $1,333,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 49 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Apgar Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (56%), Social Science (11%), Arts & Culture (9%).
- Who are Apgar Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Clemson University Foundation ($600k), National Review Institute ($550k), American University ($500k).
- Does Apgar Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Apgar Foundation Inc 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 Apgar Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc, Bradley Impact Fund Inc, Donors Trust Inc.
- Where is Apgar Foundation Inc based?
- Apgar Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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