How much does James R and Electra P Agras Foundation give?

James R and Electra P Agras Foundation reported 39 grants totaling $83,700 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 39 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does James R and Electra P Agras Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (47%), Education (14%), Health (11%).

Who are James R and Electra P Agras Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Pittsburgh Symphony Inc ($110k), Pittsburgh Opera Inc ($40k), National Legal and Policy Center ($30k).

Does James R and Electra P Agras Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 61% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does James R and Electra P Agras Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as James R and Electra P Agras Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, Hillman Family Foundations, The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania.

Where is James R and Electra P Agras Foundation based?

James R and Electra P Agras Foundation is based in PA.

James R and Electra P Agras Foundation

James R and Electra P Agras Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

James R and Electra P Agras Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$84k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$13k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$244kEducation$72kHealth$56kReligion$46kCrime & Legal$34kPublic Benefit$23kHuman Services$21kHousing & Shelter$4kOther$0

02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k37 grants · $61k
$10k–50k2 grants · $23k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra	$12,500
Pittsburgh Festival Opera	$10,000
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra	$7,500
St Nicholas Cathedral	$6,700
Metro Opera Association	$6,000
St Clair Hospital	$5,500
UPMC	$5,000
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust	$5,000
National Legal and Policy Center	$3,000
Journey Church	$3,000
Family Links	$2,000
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra	$1,500
Always B Smiling	$1,000
Judicial Watch	$1,000
The National Civil War Museum	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$424k · 48 repeat orgs$84k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

48 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$424k

$80k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

+11%

Still filing today

56%

24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHealthCrime & LegalHuman ServicesPublic 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

PS
PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $110k · revenue +22%
NATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER
6× · 2018–2024 · $30k · revenue +8%
AC
AMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI
3× · 2019–2022 · $20k · revenue +58%

Funded once

C
CECU
one grant, 2019 · $10k
RL
Ridge LibraryMercyhurst
one grant, 2020 · $10k
SC
St Clair Hospital Foundation
one grant, 2022 · $6k

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.

Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education

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

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

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

Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education

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

Albright College

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

Education

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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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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Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Little Sisters of the Poor. 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

50 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. 50 of the 127 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

49/50

Grantees still filing

39/50

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$236,980Other$179,750Crime & Legal$32,800Education$24,700Public Benefit$21,200Human Services$15,150Health$7,350

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.

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 Pittsburgh FoundationPA21.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Heinz Endowments · Clapp G H Decd Char and Ed Tr · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Howard & Nell E Miller Foundat · James Frances McCandless Trust · Peter C Dozzi Family Foundation Aka Eugene Dozzi Charitable Foundation · Centimark Foundation · Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation · American Eagle Outfitters Foundation

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 James R and Electra P Agras Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James R and Electra P Agras Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get 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

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

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.

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