· Private foundation
Apollos Charitable Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $385k
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOODLANDS METHODIST CHURCH | $400,000 |
| STUDENTS LIFE OF AMERICA | $200,000 |
| CONCORDIA LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL | $75,000 |
| INTERCESSORS FOR AMERICA | $60,000 |
| STUDENTS LIFE OF AMERICA | $50,000 |
| STUDENTS LIFE OF AMERICA | $25,000 |
| STUDENTS LIFE OF AMERICA | $25,000 |
| WOODLANDS METHODIST CHURCH | $25,000 |
| TEXAS VALUES | $20,000 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $310k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SFStudents for Life of America Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $820k · revenue +176%
- CLCONCORDIA LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL2× · 2024–2025 · $275k · revenue +17%
- CUCompassion United3× · 2022–2024 · $160k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- IMINTERNATIONAL MUSIC CAMPone grant, 2022 · $287k · revenue +19% · 27% of their budget
- NDNorth Dakota State Universityone grant, 2022 · $250k
- TRTEXAS RIGHT TO LIFEone grant, 2020 · $50k
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.
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
Texans for vaccine choice exists to directly influence vaccine choice public policy and legislation
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
Uatx is a nonprofit dedicated to building a liberal arts university committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse. to maintain these principles, the university will be fiercely independent financially,…
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
Values united is a non-partisan organization that assists government employees and private-sector workers to report and publicize violations of the law safely, lawfully, and responsibly. we arrange professional legal advice for…
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
The mission is to provide a biblically based classical college preparatory education that inspires a passion for excellence a heart of grace and the character of Christ.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 17 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Students for Life of America Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MUSIC CAMP ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TEXAS VALUES ↗
- Who funds Compassion United ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS VALUES ACTION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
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: Shell USA Company Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Apollos Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Apollos Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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