How much does Mgdc Apgar Foundation give?

Mgdc Apgar Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $280,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 46 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Mgdc Apgar Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (34%), Arts & Culture (29%), Environment (10%).

Who are Mgdc Apgar Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Free Press ($407k), Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation ($210k), Mission Msa ($100k).

Does Mgdc Apgar Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Mgdc Apgar Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Mgdc Apgar Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Whitefish Community Foundation Inc, James & Wanda Hollensteiner Fdn Lisa Mary Hollensteiner, Oro y Plata Foundation.

Where is Mgdc Apgar Foundation based?

Mgdc Apgar Foundation is based in MT.

Mgdc Apgar Foundation

Mgdc Apgar Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$280k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$608kArts & Culture$525kEnvironment$187kInternational$140kScience & Tech$81kPublic Benefit$73kCivil Rights$66kHuman Services$20kOther$0

02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k20 grants · $70k
$10k–50k8 grants · $110k
$50k–250k2 grants · $100k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMERS RESEARCH	$50,000
CURE ALZHEIMERS	$50,000
ACLU	$20,000
ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION	$20,000
OXFAM AMERICA	$20,000
CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTES	$10,000
GIVE WELL	$10,000
AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND	$10,000
HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL	$10,000
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW	$10,000
DEMOCRACY NOW	$5,500
FACTCHECKORG	$5,000
NORTHWEST MONTANA HISTORY MUSEUM	$5,000
INTERNET ARCHIVE	$5,000
WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION	$5,000

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 (FY18–25, $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 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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.6M · 56 repeat orgs$250k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.6M

$233k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%

+19%

Still filing today

71%

70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesInternationalEnvironmentEducationAnimalsOther

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

FP
FREE PRESS
7× · 2018–2025 · $407k · revenue +339%
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ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
6× · 2018–2025 · $210k · revenue +185%
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ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
4× · 2018–2025 · $70k · revenue +32%

Funded once

MM
MISSION MSAgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +177%
CR
CLIMATE REALTY PROJECT
one grant, 2023 · $25k
F
FLCCC
one grant, 2021 · $15k

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.

Project Drawdown

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;…

Education

Open Markets Institute

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.

Education

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Inc

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.

International

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

Watttime Corporation

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.

Science & Tech

Climate Central Inc

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…

Science & Tech

Observer Research Foundation America

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…

International

Target Als Foundation Inc

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…

Education

Center for International Environmental Law Inc

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…

International

The Alliance for Just Deliberation On Solar Geoengineering Inc

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…

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa; 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.

04the grantee network

71 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. 71 of the 100 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)

70/71

Grantees still filing

51/71

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$681,788Health$421,000Arts & Culture$412,550International$105,000Environment$90,800Philanthropy$65,000Human Services$33,036

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.

Whitefish Community Foundation IncMT28× affinity11 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

8report 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.

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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