· Private foundation
Mgdc Apgar 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMERS RESEARCH | $50,000 |
| CURE ALZHEIMERS | $50,000 |
| OXFAM AMERICA | $20,000 |
| ACLU | $20,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTES | $10,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW | $10,000 |
| GIVE WELL | $10,000 |
| HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND | $10,000 |
| DEMOCRACY NOW | $5,500 |
| INTERNET ARCHIVE | $5,000 |
| BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR DEMOCRACY & TECHNOLOGY | $5,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY18–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of those 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
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.
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 +57% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 4 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- FPFREE PRESS7× · 2018–2025 · $407k · revenue +339%
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2025 · $210k · revenue +185%
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC4× · 2018–2025 · $70k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- MMMISSION MSAgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +177%
- CRCLIMATE REALTY PROJECTone grant, 2023 · $25k
- FFLCCCone grant, 2021 · $15k
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.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
International consortium of investigative journalists, inc.'s (icij) mission is to show people how the world really works through stories that rock the world; forcing positive change.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To raise awareness about the potential to reduce environmental harm by shifting electricity use to particular times; to encourage the development and spread of common protocols for this practice.
Climate central, inc. (the organization") is an independent not-for-profit organization of leading scientists, technology experts and communication professionals that are dedicated to researching and reporting on climate change and its…
Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…
The alliance for just deliberation on solar geoengineering (dsg) is a charitable, scientific and educational organization dedicated to building just and inclusive deliberation about research and potential use of solar geoengineering. solar…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa and the most unlike its peers is Starkey Hearing 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.
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 field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
70 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. 70 of the 100 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 FREE PRESS ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSION MSA ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEAR FUND ↗
- Who funds THE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE EQUITY ↗
- Who funds Waxfactory Inc ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST MONTANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DEMOCRACY AND TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds GRACE SCIENCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Grist Magazine Inc ↗
- Who funds CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds KNOWLEDGE ECOLOGY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA ↗
- Who funds Matthew 25 Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Internet Archive ↗
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: Whitefish Community Foundation Inc · James & Wanda Hollensteiner Fdn Lisa Mary Hollensteiner · Oro y Plata Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Angora Ridge Foundation · Roundup for Safety Inc · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · Democracy Fund Inc · The Ford Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors 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 Mgdc Apgar 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.
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% 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.