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The Agape Foundation Inc

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.

$104k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$48k
Largest
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$669kEducation$202kYouth Development$63kArts & Culture$59kHousing & Shelter$19kHuman Services$18kCivil Rights$6kHealth$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
$1,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$274k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLACK ROCK CHURCH$48,000
Individual grant recipient$15,400
LEAH FOUNDATION$12,000
MNA$9,000
KAIROS PDX$7,500
URBAN IMPACT OF BLACK ROCK$2,500
ELEVATE BRIDGEPORT$2,000
KEYS INC$1,500
BLACK ROCK CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH$1,200
BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION$1,000
PEOPLE INTERNATIONAL$1,000
CHOSEN PEOPLE MINISTRIES$1,000
HOMEBRIDGE VENTURES INC$1,000
THE FAIRFIELD MUSEUM$250
SMITHSONIAN NMAAHC$250
02The need
03

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 (FY17–24, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%LEAH FOUNDATION: $12k → 17%LEAH FOUNDATION: $4k → 17%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION: $6k → 9%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION: $3k → 9%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION: $3k → 9%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION: $3k → 9%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 9%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 9%HOMEBRIDGE VENTURES INC: $1k → 9%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 9%HOMEBRIDGE VENTURES INC: $1k → 9%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

NH
WA
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CT
CO
MO
VA
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 27 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
17

Total granted

$1.1M
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+37%

Still filing today

41%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesReligionArts & CultureHousing & ShelterInternationalOther
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

  • KAIROSPDX
    8× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +313%
  • WO
    WORLD OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $59k · revenue +36%
  • UI
    URBAN IMPACT OF BLACK ROCK INCORPORATED
    8× · 2017–2024 · $57k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • BC
    BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +31%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
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.

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International Impact Ministries in
Religion
2
The Impact Movement Inc

The impact movement equips black students to become disciples of jesus christ.

Religion
3
Entrust

Entrust's mission is to multiply church leaders through accessible, locally owned, reproducible training systems. this is accomplished through facilitated learning, assisting christians in gaining solid understanding of scripture, and…

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4
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…

Religion
5
In the Gap Inc

Equip and inspire young adults to be positive leaders who model integrity, passionately love jesus christ, and effectively influence children to do the same.

Religion
6
Urbanpromise International

To prepare emerging leaders to initiate,develop and sustain christian-based youth development organizations and to seed their new ministries as they serve vulnerable children and teens in our world's most under-resourced communities.

International
7
Probe Ministries International

To present the gospel by providing life-long opportunities to integrate faith and learning through balanced, biblically based scholarship, training people to love god by renewing their minds and equipping the church to engage the world for…

Religion
8
Reach Out Ministries Inc

Spiritual awakening and training youth leaders.

Religion
9
Imentor Inc

Imentor is a not-for-profit organization that partners with public high schools in low income communities, where a majority of students served will be first-generation college graduates. imentor believes in the transformative power of…

Youth Development
10
Portersville Christian School

The mission of portersville christian school is to glorify god by preparing students to serve christ and instilling high standards spiritually, academically, socially, and physically. the school provides a high-quality academic program, a…

Education
11
Ingenuity Prep

Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.

Education
12
Colorado Christian Academy

Colorado christian academy provides an innovative christ-centered education that prioritizes academic achievements and individual development of the whole child. in relationship with parents, we will build healthy foundations that result…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridgeport Rescue Mission Inc; the most unlike its peers is Smithsonian Institution. 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

17 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. 17 of the 48 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BLACK ROCK CHURCH: $492,553 · OtherBLACK ROCK CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $123,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMNA: $93,500 · OtherMNAWORLD OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC: $59,000 · OtherWORLD OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC+30 more: $162,937 · Other+30 moreKAIROSPDX: $75,000 · EducationKAIROSPDXBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $10,000 · EducationBERKLEE C…ELEVATE BRIDGEPORT INC: $6,000 · EducationELEVATE B…+1 more: $2,000 · EducationURBAN IMPACT OF BLACK ROCK INCORPORATED: $57,020 · Housing & ShelterKids Empowered by Your Support Inc: $44,400 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $250 · Arts & CultureBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $19,000 · Human ServicesLEAH FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 · Human ServicesHOMEBRIDGE VENTURES INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesINSIGHT FOR LIVING: $3,600 · ReligionThe Urban Alternative: $1,200 · ReligionIN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC: $400 · ReligionPEOPLE INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 · International
Other$931,190Education$93,000Housing & Shelter$57,020Arts & Culture$44,650Human Services$37,000Religion$5,200International$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKAIROSPDX: $75,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetWORLD OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC: $59,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN IMPACT OF BLACK ROCK INCORPORATED: $57,020 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetKids Empowered by Your Support Inc: $44,400 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $19,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLEAH FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELEVATE BRIDGEPORT INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINSIGHT FOR LIVING: $3,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEBRIDGE VENTURES INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CAMPBELL INSTITUTE: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Urban Alternative: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 KAIROSPDX ↗
  • Who funds WORLD OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds URBAN IMPACT OF BLACK ROCK INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Kids Empowered by Your Support Inc ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds LEAH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC ↗
  • Who funds ELEVATE BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES ↗
  • Who funds INSIGHT FOR LIVING ↗
  • Who funds RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds HOMEBRIDGE VENTURES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CAMPBELL INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds The Urban Alternative ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE INTERNATIONAL ↗

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.

American Endowment FoundationOH10.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Agape Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Agape Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • Elevate Bridgeport Inc: 21% of income from government
  • Kairospdx: 19% of income from government
  • Berklee College of Music Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Campbell Institute: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 48 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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