The Freedman's Bureau was created as an agency of the military governments that managed Reconstruction.

The Conservatoria was created by the Autonomous Region of Sardinia as an independent agency.

It was created as a supplemental mission-sending agency to the United Methodist Church.

It was created as an independent nonpartisan agency by the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974.

The Settlement was created in 1893 as a social-service agency.

It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government.

Created as a cabinet-level agency in 1980 at the end of the Carter Administration, the department has endured 12 years of neglect.

Congress created the futures commission in 1974 as an independent agency to regulate commodity futures and options markets.

It was created as an autonomous agency in 1972 after the Ministry of Works had been absorbed into the Department of the Environment.

It was created as an independent agency by President Jimmy Carter in 1979 to coordinate federal help in times of calamity.