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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 FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
21
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$5.2MSocial Science$1.0MArts & Culture$792kPublic Benefit$556kHealth$529kCivil Rights$268kYouth Development$200kScience & Tech$193kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k34 grants · $1.0M
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
$38,000
Median grant
21
States reached
$162k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LSU FOUNDATION$100,000
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY$100,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
AMERION COLLEGE$50,000
BENEDICTINE COLLEGE$40,000
LIBERTAS INSTITUTE$40,000
SALIENT PUBLICATIONS$40,000
STUDENT FREE PRESS ASSOCIATION$40,000
CEDARVILLE UNIVERSITY$40,000
CATHERINE PROJECT$40,000
HOUSTON INSTITUTE$40,000
PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY$40,000
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC$40,000
XAVIER UNIVERSITY$40,000
REASON FOUNDATION$40,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $103k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OPERATION RECOVERY: $8k → 16%CENTER FOR HOPE HOSPICE INC: $3k → 10%SCALA FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%IN SHIFRA'S ARMS: $2k → 8%CENTER FOR HOPE HOSPICE INC: $3k → 10%SCALA FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%SCALA FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%SCALA FOUNDATION: $13k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
ID
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
KS
AR
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 16% of Apgar Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Apgar Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.8% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.9M · 65 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

65 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
41

Total granted

$7.9M
$742k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+19%

Still filing today

72%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $298k 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
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalSocial SciencePublic BenefitOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • CU
    CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $600k · revenue +143%
  • NR
    NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $550k · revenue +61%
  • AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $500k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $68k
  • TR
    THE RUTH INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2021 · $45k · revenue -34%
  • CO
    Center of the American Experiment
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue -11%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
8
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
9
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
10
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
11
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
12
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Review Institute and the most unlike its peers is Balaker Media Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Elementary Literacy TutoringChristian Missionary Organi…Community Arts CentersPregnancy Support ServicesMilitary Veterans SupportAnimal Rescue and ShelterHealth Access Advocacy and …Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity College Foundatio…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%4%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr16%40%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/86
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,479

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

78 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 78 of the 119 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/78
Grantees still filing
57/78
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $600,000 · EducationCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $500,000 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITYTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC — $450,000 · EducationTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INCLSU FOUNDATION — $425,000 · EducationLSU FOUNDATIONARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $400,000 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSIT…XAVIER UNIVERSITY — $310,000 · EducationXAVIER UNIVERSITYSTUDENT FREE PRESS ASSOCIATION — $285,000 · EducationSTUDENT FREE PRESS ASSOCIATIONMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $200,000 · EducationTHE RUSSELL KIRK CENTER FOR CULTURAL RENEWAL — $180,000 · Education+32 more — $1,882,225 · Education+32 moreNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE — $550,000 · OtherNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTEASU FOUNDATION — $325,000 · OtherASU FOUNDATIONST ANDREW'S CHILDREN'S CLINIC — $200,000 · OtherST ANDREW'S CHILDREN'S CLINICUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK — $145,000 · OtherAUSTIN INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF FAMILY AND CULTURE — $132,500 · Other+53 more — $1,423,550 · Other+53 moreThe Becket Fund — $240,000 · Social ScienceFoundation for Economic Education Inc — $145,000 · Social Science+1 more — $2,000 · Social ScienceCERTELL INC — $247,500 · InternationalTHE ALEXANDER HAMILTON SOCIETY — $37,500 · International+1 more — $3,000 · InternationalSalient Publications — $102,500 · Arts & CultureFORBES AVENUE FOUNDATION INC — $62,500 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR AMERICAN CULTURE AND IDEAS DBA POLYHYMNIA — $40,000 · Arts & CultureBALAKER MEDIA FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL REVIEW — $20,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $7,500 · Arts & CultureTAX FOUNDATION — $92,000 · Public BenefitLibertas Network — $80,000 · Public BenefitLeadership Institute — $25,000 · Public BenefitScala Foundation A NJ Nonprofit Corporation — $87,500 · Human ServicesOPERATION RECOVERY INC — $8,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR HOPE HOSPICE INC — $5,000 · Human Services+1 more — $2,000 · Human Services
Education$5,232,225Other$2,776,050Social Science$387,000International$288,000Arts & Culture$252,500Public Benefit$197,000Human Services$102,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $600,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE — $550,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $500,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC — $450,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLSU FOUNDATION — $425,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $400,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY — $310,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENT FREE PRESS ASSOCIATION — $285,000 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetCERTELL INC — $247,500 over 6y, 7.9% of budgetThe Becket Fund — $240,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetST ANDREW'S CHILDREN'S CLINIC — $200,000 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RUSSELL KIRK CENTER FOR CULTURAL RENEWAL — $180,000 over 5y, 9.5% of budgetFoundation for Economic Education Inc — $145,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE GREAT QUESTIONS FOUNDATION — $141,250 over 4y, 60% of budgetAUSTIN INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF FAMILY AND CULTURE — $132,500 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetByrne Institute — $127,500 over 5y, 10% of budgetLOVE YOUR SCHOOL — $125,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetSTETSON UNIVERSITY INC — $120,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBenedictine College — $105,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSalient Publications — $102,500 over 4y, 28% of budgetCATHERINE PROJECT INC — $100,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetUniversity of Louisville Research Foundation — $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTAX FOUNDATION — $92,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY — $90,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetScala Foundation A NJ Nonprofit Corporation — $87,500 over 4y, 11% of budgetPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY — $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLibertas Network — $80,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCedarville University — $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetZEPHYR INSTITUTE INC — $75,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetOPEN DISCOURSE COALITION — $62,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $62,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFORBES AVENUE FOUNDATION INC — $62,500 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetThe Abigail Adams Institute Inc — $55,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetEdChoice Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RUTH INSTITUTE — $45,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York — $43,550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE REASON FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCenter of the American Experiment — $40,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR AMERICAN CULTURE AND IDEAS DBA POLYHYMNIA — $40,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE ALEXANDER HAMILTON SOCIETY — $37,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetThe Florida State University Foundation Inc — $37,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WORKFIRST FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetEWTN NEWS INC — $27,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE
  • Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds LSU FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds STUDENT FREE PRESS ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds CERTELL INC
  • Who funds The Becket Fund
  • Who funds ST ANDREW'S CHILDREN'S CLINIC
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Who funds THE RUSSELL KIRK CENTER FOR CULTURAL RENEWAL
  • Who funds Foundation for Economic Education Inc
  • Who funds THE GREAT QUESTIONS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds AUSTIN INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF FAMILY AND CULTURE
  • Who funds Byrne Institute
  • Who funds LOVE YOUR SCHOOL
  • Who funds STETSON UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds Benedictine College
  • Who funds Salient Publications
  • Who funds CATHERINE PROJECT INC
  • Who funds University of Louisville Research Foundation
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
  • Who funds TAX FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Scala Foundation A NJ Nonprofit Corporation
  • Who funds PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Libertas Network
  • Who funds Cedarville University
  • Who funds University of Arizona Foundation
  • Who funds ZEPHYR INSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds OPEN DISCOURSE COALITION
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds FORBES AVENUE FOUNDATION INC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation IncWI31.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Apgar Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 100%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology35% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University12% of income from government
  • Center for Hope Hospice Inc2% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College1% of income from government
  • Stetson University Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 119 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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