Tennessee · Nonprofit
ASSOCIATION FOR GUIDANCE AID PLACEMENT AND EMPATHY
ASSOCIATION FOR GUIDANCE AID PLACEMENT AND EMPATHY (Tennessee) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,193,973 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,200,750). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.9M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $7.0M
What Association for Guidance Aid Placement and Empathy does
Mission
To strengthen children and families with the healing love of christ through professional counseling, adoption, foster care, and domestic violence support and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Counseling & psychological services: professional counseling, testing, and support groups are available for children/adolescents, adults, couples and families needing help with a wide range of issues such as depression, anxiety, grief, marital & relationship issues, and behavioral problems. Affordability of services is attained through a sliding scale fee system and the ability to use insurance or eap benefits in many cases, as well as through other special arrangements with employers and a number of churches and schools. Agape is committed to providing professional christian counseling to the community, regardless of financial resources. From july 2023 through june 2024, agape provided 10,861 counseling sessions to 824 clients.
$1,206,669 spentof which $700 as grants$621,358 earned by the program27% of program spendingFoster care, foster home certification: agape provides safe, stable, caring foster homes for children who are referred to agape by the tn dept of children's services. Agape also accepts voluntary placements when parents or legal custodians are in crisis & cannot care for their children. Parental reunification with children is always the initial permanency plan while ensuring the wellbeing of the children. Agape provides case management and ongoing training for foster parents to meet each child's special needs. From july 2023 through june 2024, agape provided 24,819 days of care to 110 children in foster care. 67 families have completed pre-service training and were approved foster homes during fy24.
$1,982,012 spentof which $914,140 as grants$1,877,843 earned by the program45% of program spendingMorning star sanctuary domestic violence support and advocacy (mss): morning star sanctuary domestic violence support and advocacy (mss) exists to provide refuge for victims of domestic violence and their children who have fled abusive situations and to help empower them to break the cycle of violence that controls their lives. Through the court advocacy program, mss provides free and confidential services including orders of protection, safety planning and danger assessment to victims of domestic violence. From july 2023 through june 2024, 75 women, 64 children, and 12 men were sheltered with 3,722 bed nights provided. In our court advocacy program we served 423 victims of domestic violence.
$1,200,532 spentof which $46,563 as grants27% of program spendingMaternity assistance and adoption: counseling is offered to women whose pregnancy has brought on additional stress and complications and who want to look at options rather than abortion. Support, access to resources and counseling assists women in developing an informed plan that will either enable her to parent or to plan for adoption. Openness is encouraged for adoption plans. Adoption services for 19 children were completed from july 2023 through june 2024.
$58,223 spentof which $955 as grants$4,200 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,447,436.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2024 to 2025, from $6.4M to $7.6M (+19%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 22% · 2020 19% · 2021 22% · 2022 13% · 2023 12% · 2024 12% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of ASSOCIATION FOR GUIDANCE AID PLACEMENT AND EMPATHY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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.
Board chair
Tara Swafford
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $114k → $743k.
17 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 ASSOCIATION FOR GUIDANCE AID PLACEMENT AND EMPATHY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 funders by total. 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
ASSOCIATION FOR GUIDANCE AID PLACEMENT AND EMPATHY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 ASSOCIATION FOR GUIDANCE AID PLACEMENT AND EMPATHY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 28% · 2019 37% · 2020 37% · 2021 27% · 2022 20% · 2023 79% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
50% of ASSOCIATION FOR GUIDANCE AID PLACEMENT AND EMPATHY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
73% of ASSOCIATION FOR GUIDANCE AID PLACEMENT AND EMPATHY'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 $867k that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
ASSOCIATION FOR GUIDANCE AID PLACEMENT AND EMPATHY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ASSOCIATION FOR GUIDANCE AID PLACEMENT AND EMPATHY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $500 on record.
- OTHER SPEC PAYMENTS-MEDICIAL SERVICES$500
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ASSOCIATION FOR GUIDANCE AID PLACEMENT AND EMPATHY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASSOCIATION FOR GUIDANCE AID PLACEMENT AND EMPATHY: 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 ASSOCIATION FOR GUIDANCE AID PLACEMENT AND EMPATHY?
- ASSOCIATION FOR GUIDANCE AID PLACEMENT AND EMPATHY (Tennessee) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,193,973 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,200,750). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ASSOCIATION FOR GUIDANCE AID PLACEMENT AND EMPATHY have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $3,193,973 in grants to ASSOCIATION FOR GUIDANCE AID PLACEMENT AND EMPATHY, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION FOR GUIDANCE AID PLACEMENT AND EMPATHY?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,200,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSOCIATION FOR GUIDANCE AID PLACEMENT AND EMPATHY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 33 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