Mcdonald Agape Foundation

About Mcdonald Agape Foundation

Mcdonald Agape Foundation’s giving is built around advanced theological scholarship, especially through endowed academic roles and institutional support for scripture, theology, and Christian thought. In the recent grants list, one of the clearest signals is a $683,000 grant to International Dominican Foundation for theology scriptural exegesis at Angelicum, alongside repeated support for Yale University Divinity School’s New Testament professorship. The foundation also backs university-based theological programs that cross into adjacent fields such as law, medicine, the arts, and religion-and-society study. That pattern shows a funder working through higher-education institutions rather than broad community grantmaking. Grants range from support for chair-like appointments and visiting scholar programs to fellowships and program support for divinity schools, law schools, and theological centers. Recent awards also reach Catholic and Anglican-linked institutions, including Dominican House of Studies and The Lambeth Trust, while continuing to fund academic theology inside major U.S. universities. The result is a profile centered on scholarship, faculty support, and institutional programs that shape teaching and research in theology and related disciplines.

What Mcdonald Agape Foundation Funds

A major thread in the foundation’s portfolio is New Testament and Christian theology scholarship. It gave $500,000 to Yale University - Divinity School for a New Testament professorship, and $300,000 to Emory University - Chandler School of Theology for a similar professorship. It also funded Duke University - Divinity School with $400,000 for DITA directorship support in theology and the arts. Another clear area is theology’s overlap with law and medicine. Mcdonald Agape Foundation awarded $289,000 to Georgetown University for a theology/medicine bioethics fellowship, $300,000 to Columbia University - Vagelos Medical College for a medical ethics fellowship, and $165,000 to Emory University School of Law for a racial justice fellowship. The foundation also supported law-and-religion work at Harvard and Emory, plus scholarship on Christian medical ethics. Catholic theological scholarship appears in the $683,000 grant to International Dominican Foundation for scriptural exegesis at Angelicum.

How Mcdonald Agape Foundation Gives