North Carolina · Nonprofit
AGAPE WAY
AGAPE WAY (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $119,336 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($86,208). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $166k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $119k
- Net assets
- $23k
What Agape Way does
Mission
Provide biblical training and provide financial assistance to pastors, missionaries, students and their families in Cambodia and China.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Mercy Program Awarded 57 scholarships to students in Cambodia and the US. Supplied snack funds for six churches' soccer and children's ministries. Provided financial support for eight pastors. Provided food and disaster relief to over 600 families during the Cambodia and Thailand border confilcts. Staff salaries and benefits (20%) attributable to program delivery: $20,583.44
$28,781 spentof which $57,037 as grants30% of program spendingBiblical Training Program: The staff spent 60% of his time on 1) Developing training curricula; 2) Providing online seminars to Cambodian pastors; 3) leading Bible studies in Senior Center.
$66,590 spent70% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $95,371.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $10k to $157k (+1469%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
99% of AGAPE WAY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Wanbing Frank Li
President & CEO
Board chair
Yi-Ting Ding
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $3k → $4k.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AGAPE WAY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AGAPE WAY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AGAPE WAY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 83% · 2019 100% · 2020 80% · 2021 82% · 2022 67% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
82% of AGAPE WAY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $22k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $98k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AGAPE WAY's revenue grew 16% between 2020 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,673 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AGAPE WAY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AGAPE WAY?
- AGAPE WAY (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $119,336 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($86,208). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AGAPE WAY have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $119,336 in grants to AGAPE WAY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AGAPE WAY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $86,208 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AGAPE WAY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing