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McDonald Agape Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $439k
- $50k–250k32 grants · $3.7M
- $250k+7 grants · $2.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE LAMBETH TRUST | $585,282 |
| INTERNATIONAL DOMINICAN FOUNDATION | $583,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - VAGELOS MEDICAL COLLEGE | $400,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY - DIVINITY SCHOOL | $400,000 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY - CHANDLER DIVINITY SCHOOL | $300,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $298,000 |
| ST MELLITUS COLLEGE TRUST | $255,113 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY - LAW SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG | $200,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY - DIVINITY SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| SAGAMORE INSTITUTE | $175,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN | $169,611 |
| KINGS COLLEGE LONDON | $151,472 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY - DIVINTY SCHOOL | $150,000 |
| WISCONSIN CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN STUDIES | $145,000 |
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.
Your US giving — 76% of grant dollars ($19M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 24% that went abroad ($5.8M) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
Beyond the US — 24% of all-years giving ($5.8M)
4 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $571k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- IDINTERNATIONAL DOMINICAN FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +585%
- EUEmory University7× · 2017–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +80%
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +47%
Funded once
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $575k
- EUEMORY UNIVERSITY - CHANDLER SCHOOL OF THEOLOGYone grant, 2023 · $300k
- HLHARVARD LAW SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $160k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of the university of cambridge is to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. organizationally, we achieve this through two divisions…
The Center of Theological Inquiry is an independent research institution with an international visiting scholar program which convenes researchers in an ideal setting for interdisciplinary inquiries where theology casts light on global…
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
Jerusalem University College creates opportunities for students to deepen their knowledge of God and His Word through immersive study of the ancient and modern contexts of Israel and the surrounding regions, equipping them for academia,…
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…
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."
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
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 institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trinity Forum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Spiritual Center of Maria Stein. 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.
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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 73 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 INTERNATIONAL DOMINICAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE ON RELIGION & DEMOCRACY INC ↗
- Who funds ADMIRATO INC ↗
- Who funds EXCELSIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TALENTED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds SAGAMORE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds Rose Castle Foundation (USA) Ltd ↗
- Who funds TRINITY FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds HIPPOCRATIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Belmont University ↗
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.
Open a dossier: John Templeton Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · International Generosity Foundation Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Servant Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 McDonald Agape Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
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.
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