FundersTennessee

Agape Love Foundation

Cleveland, TN · EIN 62-1731414. Reported 106 grants totalling $3,815,978 to 45 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$25,000median grant
$3,815,978granted, 2021-2024
45organizations funded
77%of grantees funded again the next year
$25,259assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Agape Love Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $25,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $51,651; the smallest was $250 and the largest $181,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
5 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
15 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
12 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
18 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
23 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
22 grants
$100,000 and Up
11 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Luis Palau AssociationPortland, OR$475,000442024
Mt Zion Prayer CenterCleveland, TN$375,162442024
International Ministries NetworkCleveland, TN$334,000442024
Faith Fellowship ChurchMckinney, TX$302,650222022
Hope International MissionsHobe Sound, FL$284,160442024
Care for Children USALeawood, KS$270,100442024
Church of God World MissionsCleveland, TN$234,831442024
Sports Fan Outreach Int'lChattanooga, TN$197,500442024
Coat of Many ColorsMontgomery, TX$162,500442024
YMCA of ChattanoogaChattanooga, TN$133,500332023
Paz InternationalApopka, FL$125,000442024
CruOrlando, FL$111,450442024
Victory Living Word ChurchMckinney, TX$86,250222024
Wailing Women Worldwide USHillside, NJ$52,500112021
Crossnet Baptist ChurchCleveland, TN$50,000112023
NaumsVenus, TX$50,000112022
Ocoee Fellowship of Christian AthletesCleveland, TN$50,000332024
Wailing Women WorldwideEast Orange, NJ$50,000222024
YMCA Camp OcoeeOcoee, TN$50,000112024
Third Millennium MinistriesCasselberry, FL$47,500442024
The Caring PlaceMiami, FL$45,500332024
New Hope Pregnancy CenterCleveland, TN$45,000442024
Samaritan's PurseBoone, NC$45,000332024
Young Life - ChattanoogaChattanooga, TN$45,000332024
American Center for Law & JusticeWashington, DC$42,272222022
AslpnCleveland, TN$36,000332024
Jabez EducationFlower Mound, TX$35,000222024
The Helper ConnectionCleveland, TN$18,000442024
Andrew Wommack MinistriesColorado Springs, CO$16,950442024
The 247 MovementCleveland, TN$10,000112024
Campus CrusadeOrlando, FL$5,700222022
Completing the Work MinistriesCleveland, TN$5,000112021
Healthnetwork FoundationPepper Pike, OH$5,000112021
Unity of the FaithLake Dallas, TX$5,000112024
Tri-State Therapeutic Riding CenterMc Donald, TN$3,000112023
Trans World Radio - ChildersCary, NC$2,800112024
Mercy ShipsGarden Valley, TX$2,000112024
Allegro SolutionsHouston, TX$1,600222022
A Brighter Future Redwood CityRedwood City, CA$1,000112024
American Center for Law and JusticeWashington, DC$1,000112024
Museum of the BibleWashington, DC$1,000112022
Operation CompassionCleveland, TN$1,000112024
Metropolitian MinistriesTampa, FL$500112023
North Cleveland Church of GodCleveland, TN$303112023
JdrfNew York, NY$250112021

27 of 45 (60%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 77%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 50 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Religion
30 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
5 grants
Youth Development
5 grants
Health Care
4 grants
International Affairs
3 grants
Public Safety & Disaster Relief
1 grant
Diseases & Disorders
1 grant
Human Services
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202126$949,872$25,000
202225$1,115,497$36,772
202325$958,654$30,000
202430$791,955$10,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 42% of this one's giving went to organizations in Tennessee. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Tennessee
$1.6M
Texas
$645K
Florida
$620K
Oregon
$475K
Kansas
$270K
New Jersey
$102K
North Carolina
$48K
District of Columbia
$44K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $25,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Tennessee.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Agape Love Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 650 25TH Street Nw 500, Cleveland, TN, 37311. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 62-1731414 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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