Maryland · Nonprofit
THE AGOGE PROJECT
THE AGOGE PROJECT (Maryland) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $373,343 to it, the largest being BALTIMORE CHILDREN AND YOUTH FUND INC ($267,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $228k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $373k
- Net assets
- $150k
What The Agoge Project does
Mission
To find a way to provide dependable educational resources for the youth in the belair-edison neighborhood of baltimore
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Agoge Project's boxing program builds self-discipline, focus, and academic accountability through structured amateur boxing training. The program delivered 529 hours of instruction in 2025, and eight amateur boxers - all in their first year of competition - represented tap in 24 amateur bouts and 3 professional bouts, traveling to a national tournament in michigan and competing in regional events in north carolina en route to 13 championships and 2 state or national representations. To remain eligible to compete, boxers are required to maintain strong school attendance and academic standing, reinforcing that the gym is a tool for life success rather than an end in itself. As with every agoge project program, boxing participants receive access to whole-food meals, are layered into weekly and monthly mental health and counseling services, and are paired with consistent adult mentors who track their progress inside and outside the gym.
$42,847 spent17% of program spendingThe Agoge Project's grappling program teaches jiu-jitsu and wrestling fundamentals as a pathway into school-affiliated athletics, building discipline, conflict-resolution skills, and physical confidence. The program delivered 512 hours of instruction in 2025 to 8 competitive participants, who logged 6 tournament appearances and earned 1 state placement and 1 national team selection. One participant transitioned directly from tap's mat into a private high school's varsity wrestling program in 2025, and several younger grapplers are now on a similar path. As in every agoge project program, grappling participants receive access to whole-food meals, weekly and monthly mental health and counseling services, and ongoing one-on-one mentorship that helps translate the discipline learned on the mat into stronger academic performance and decision-making.
$29,242 spent12% of program spendingThe Agoge Project's life skills and workforce development programming equips youth with practical, career-oriented competencies through eight rotating workshop tracks: culinary arts, financial literacy and entrepreneurship, sewing, gardening, home care and crafts, comic book creation, multimedia, and an adventure camp. The program delivered 659 hours of instruction in 2025; twelve youth completed a full financial literacy series, and one participant was placed in a paid internship with a community restaurant partner. Workshops are designed to expand career exposure and build practical competence outside the gym, complementing rather than competing with academic and athletic training. As in every agoge project program, participants receive access to whole-food meals, weekly and monthly mental health and counseling services, and consistent one-on-one mentorship that reinforces the practical lessons learned in each workshop.
$20,557 spent8% of program spendingOther programming services provided by The Agoge Project include; spanish programming, strength and conditioning, summer programs, workshops for life skills and offsite coaching.
$152,482 spent$12,000 earned by the program62% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $245,128.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $106k to $150k (+42%).
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: 2024 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of THE AGOGE PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $31 → $220k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 THE AGOGE PROJECT’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
THE AGOGE PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 THE AGOGE PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 68% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of THE AGOGE PROJECT's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $63k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
THE AGOGE PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,688 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like THE AGOGE PROJECT
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 THE AGOGE PROJECT: 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 THE AGOGE PROJECT?
- THE AGOGE PROJECT (Maryland) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $373,343 to it, the largest being BALTIMORE CHILDREN AND YOUTH FUND INC ($267,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE AGOGE PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $373,343 in grants to THE AGOGE PROJECT, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE AGOGE PROJECT?
- BALTIMORE CHILDREN AND YOUTH FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $267,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE AGOGE PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 8 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing