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Apgar Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
STUDENT FREE PRESS ASSOCIATION$40,000
CERTELL INC$40,000
HOUSTON INSTITUTE$40,000
BENEDICTINE COLLEGE$40,000
THE RUSSELL KIRK CENTER FOR CULTURAL RENEWAL$40,000
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC$40,000
SALIENT PUBLICATIONS$40,000
PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY$40,000
XAVIER UNIVERSITY$40,000
BECKET FUND$40,000
REASON FOUNDATION$40,000
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 (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 its 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
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

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
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 16% of Apgar Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Apgar Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.8% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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

+42%
+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
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

  • 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 -28%
  • CO
    Center of the American Experiment
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue -11%
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
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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Review Institute; 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.
05the grantee network

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

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 2026, 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.

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

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/78
Grantees still filing
58/78
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetUniversity of Louisville Research Foundation: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCATHERINE PROJECT INC: $100,000 over 3y, 28% 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 budgetCedarville University: $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLibertas Network: $80,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetZEPHYR INSTITUTE INC: $75,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetFORBES AVENUE FOUNDATION INC: $62,500 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetOPEN DISCOURSE COALITION: $62,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $62,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Abigail Adams Institute Inc: $55,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEdChoice Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% 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 budgetCenter of the American Experiment: $40,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCENTER FOR AMERICAN CULTURE AND IDEAS DBA POLYHYMNIA: $40,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE REASON FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Florida State University Foundation Inc: $37,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALEXANDER HAMILTON SOCIETY: $37,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE WORKFIRST FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetEWTN NEWS INC: $27,500 over 3y, 0.1% 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 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 University of Louisville Research Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CATHERINE PROJECT INC ↗
  • 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 Cedarville University ↗
  • Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Libertas Network ↗
  • Who funds ZEPHYR INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds FORBES AVENUE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds OPEN DISCOURSE COALITION ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS 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.

The Lynde and Harry B…Bradley Impact Fund I…Donors Trust IncSarah Scaife Foundati…Charles Koch Foundati…Beth and Ravenel Curr…Charles Koch InstituteThe Seminar Network I…John William Pope Fou…The Achelis & Bodman …Foundation For Excell…Thomas W Smith Founda…
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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Center for Hope Hospice Inc: 2% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • Stetson University Inc: 0% 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, 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 119 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home