Missouri · Nonprofit
Augustine Institute Inc
Augustine Institute Inc (Missouri) receives grants from 121 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,247,931 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($7,513,232). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $47M
- Funders on record
- 121
- Grants received
- $53M
- Net assets
- $48M
What Augustine Institute Inc does
Mission
The Augustine Institute serves the formation of Catholics for the New Evangelization. Through academic and parish programs, the Augustine Institute equips Catholics intellectually, spiritually, and pastorally to renew the Church and transform the world for Christ.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Institute sells products, physically and digitally, in the form of video sets, instructional booklets, books and audio talks and dramas.
$15,494,540 spent$5,354,818 earned by the program37% of program spendingThe Augustine Institute Graduate School of Theology is a community of scholars and students united in the common mission to advance the New Evangelization through the exercise of the gift of theology. The Augustine Institute is an accredited member of the Association of Theological Schools. Inspired by St. Augustine's approach to evangelization, the Institute privileges narration, the telling of the story of God's mercy to his people, from the Creation through our Redemption in Christ and in the continuing unfolding of his mercy by his Providential governance of the Church.
$10,079,327 spentof which $645,965 as grants$2,744,601 earned by the program24% of program spendingFORMED is a digital platform that brings together the best Catholic content from the Institute and many other Catholic content providers.
$9,377,119 spent$12,585,836 earned by the program22% of program spendingRetreats provide you with an opportunity to step away from the busyness of daily life to spend time with our Lord in prayer, fellowship, and learning.
$6,740,840 spent$88,006 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $41,691,826.
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 2023 to 2024, from $40M to $84M (+110%).
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: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of Augustine Institute Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% 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
Robert Weber
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 54 funders, grant income rose $1.7M → $7.7M.
38 of 121 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 Augustine Institute Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 121 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
Augustine Institute Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
70% 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 Augustine Institute Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 25% · 2019 45% · 2020 24% · 2021 21% · 2022 16% · 2023 26% — diversifying over time.
“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
47% of Augustine Institute Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
69% of Augustine Institute Inc'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 $16M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 29 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $37M arriving through sponsors registered in 26 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
Augustine Institute Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Augustine Institute Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1k on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $1k
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 Augustine Institute Inc
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Augustine Properties LLC · disregarded
- Augustine Properties II LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Augustine Institute Inc: 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 Augustine Institute Inc?
- Augustine Institute Inc (Missouri) receives grants from 121 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,247,931 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($7,513,232). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Augustine Institute Inc have?
- IRS filings report 121 organizations giving $53,247,931 in grants to Augustine Institute Inc, 73 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Augustine Institute Inc?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,513,232 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Augustine Institute Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 121 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