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Ach Child and Family Services

Through strength-based partnership ach brings resources and skills to children and families struggling with life's challenges.

$27M
Granted FY2024still arriving
131
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$9.8M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Human Services$24MYouth Development$1.5MCommunity Improvement$466kHealth$337kHousing & Shelter$312k
02FY2024 · 131 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 131 grants below total $20,906,821 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $27,412,996 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $6,506,175 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $10k–50k49 grants · $1.0M
  • $50k–250k80 grants · $10M
  • $250k+1 grant · $9.8M
$100,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$69M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACH LANDOWNER II$9,771,940
REFUGE HOUSE INC$150,000
THE BAIR FOUNDATION OF TEXAS$150,000
PATHWAYS YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES$150,000
DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER FUND DEVELOPMENT$150,000
THE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION$150,000
CHILDREN'S HOME OF LUBBOCK$150,000
AMAZING GRACE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES$150,000
PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOME$150,000
THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER OF SAN ANTONIO$150,000
HOUSE OF SHILOH FAMILY SERVICES INC$150,000
SPECIAL PARENT ADVOCACY GROUP$150,000
SAFE HAVEN ADOLESCENT HOME$150,000
SAINT FRANCES COMMUNITY SERVICES IN TEXAS INC$150,000
SETON HOME$150,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $7.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE BAIR FOUNDATION OF TEXAS: $150k → 13%ST JUDE'S RANCH FOR CHILDREN: $150k → 7%CUMBERLAND YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $150k → 8%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $149k → 9%MONTGOMERY COUNTY YOUTH SERVICES: $107k → 9%BENEVOLENT HOUSE CHILD PLACING AGENCY: $100k → 9%GREATER SAN MARCOS YOUTH COUNCIL: $92k → 10%THE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $150k → 11%PATHWAYS YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $150k → 13%GARDEN OF HOPE OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $90k → 14%SWEETEN HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $130k → 15%1 HOPE FOR KIDS: $130k → 16%PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOME: $150k → 16%EAST TEXAS OPEN DOOR INC: $135k → 16%EVERYDAY LIFE INC: $90k → 22%SUNNY GLEN CHILDREN'S HOME: $115k → 23%LIFELINE CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICE: $130k → 23%NATIONAL YOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAM INC: $144k → 15%CREDENCE VILLAGE INC: $102k → 8%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $150k → 10%AZLEWAY INC: $150k → 12%YOUTH IN VIEW: $150k → 14%HARBOR OF HOPE: $130k → 5%GOOD HEARTS YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $130k → 16%JONATHAN'S PLACE: $150k → 14%RESPITE CARE OF SAN ANTONIO INC: $150k → 16%SPAULDING FOR CHILDREN DBA ARMS WIDE: $118k → 16%TEXAS BAPTIST HOME FOR CHILDREN: $150k → 9%UPBRING THE NEW LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $130k → 10%VESSELS WITH PURPOSE CHILD PLACING AGENCY: $150k → 14%THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER OF SAN ANTONIO: $150k → 16%ACH LANDOWNER III: $110k → 11%AMAZING GRACE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $150k → 14%MISSION ROAD DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER: $100k → 16%DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER FUND DEVELOPMENT: $150k → 16%REFUGE HOUSE INC: $150k → 14%HOUSTON STRONG CHILDREN SERVICES: $130k → 16%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $150k → 14%CITY HOUSE INC: $118k → 11%THERAPEUTIC FAMILY: $130k → 11%TURNING POINT CHILDREN'S SOCIAL SERVICES: $95k → 16%ADVANTAGE ADOPTIONS: $145k → 11%CIRCLE OF LIVING HOPE INC: $130k → 16%KIDS FIRST INC: $118k → 11%GUARDIAN ANGELS RTC: $150k → 16%SAFE HAVEN ADOLESCENT HOME: $150k → 16%THE SANCTUARY FOSTER CARE SERVICES: $150k → 16%MONARCH FAMILY SERVICES: $150k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$15M · 3 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 101 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
1

Total granted

$15M
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-84%
+106%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’20’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AL
    ACH LANDOWNER II
    4× · 2017–2024 · $15M · revenue ×82 · 95% of their budget
  • AL
    ACH LANDOWNER
    3× · 2020–2023 · $582k · revenue -84% · 90% of their budget
  • AL
    ACH LANDOWNER III
    2× · 2018–2023 · $141k · revenue -93%

Funded once

  • AC
    ALL CHURCH HOME FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $46k · revenue +106%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Texas Foster Care & Adoption Serv

A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.

Human Services
2
Central Texas Children's Home

To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.

Human Services
3
The Lullaby House

The Lullaby House missionis ot strengthen families by providing programs and services to teenage parents and familites in need which will inspire and promote generational change.

Youth Development
4
San Antonio Foster Care and Adoption and Services

San antonio foster care and adoption services inc. is a licensed child placement agency in the state of texas. the organization cares for children placed in foster care by the state of texas.

Human Services
5
Better Choices Inc

Provide foster care placement for children

Human Services
6
Agape Manor Homes Inc

Our missison is to create a safe and supportive environment for abused and neglected children giving them love, attention and guidance for positive growth and successful life. We RE-PARENT each child for successful family re-unification.

Human Services
7
Sonshine Children Center Inc

Serving families with foster and adoptive children.

Human Services
8
Covenant Children's Home Inc

Covenant childrens home is to provide a residence, food and clothing plus a continuum of care including physical, emotional, and spiritual nurturing for neglected, abandoned or abused children.

Human Services
9
Albuquerque Christian Children's Home Inc

The home provides care for children and wards of the court placed for foster home purposes.

Human Services
10
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Milam County
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11
Abrazo Foster Family Agency

Our Mission is to take the lead in protecting children entrusted to our care or protection from further abuse and neglect by carefully selecting the most qualified and dedicated foster parents available to operate foster homes for the…

Human Services
12
Family Link Treatment Services Inc

A state of texas licensed foster care-adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Baptist Home for Children and the most unlike its peers is 1 Care Premier Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%4%<5yr16%18%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr15%20%20–35yr9%23%35–55yr12%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%1%<5yr16%66%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr15%8%20–35yr9%9%35–55yr12%6%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/106
the rest of the field
16%
15,111/94,093

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

85 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 85 of the 105 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
84/85
Grantees still filing
30/85
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ACH LANDOWNER II — $14,671,385 · Crime & LegalACH LANDOWNER II+1 more — $20,000 · Crime & Legal+65 more — $7,967,748 · Human Services+65 moreCHERISHED IMPRESSIONS CHILD PLACING — $150,000 · OtherCHERISHED…BLUEBONNET HAVEN LLC — $150,000 · OtherBLUEBONNE…ROY MAAS' YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC — $150,000 · OtherROY MAAS'…REACH CHILD PLACING AGENCY — $150,000 · OtherREACH CHI…ST PETER-ST JOSEPH CHILDRENS HOME — $150,000 · OtherST PETER-…SAINT FRANCIS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $150,000 · OtherSAINT FRA…SETON HOME INC — $150,000 · OtherSETON HOM…AYANTI RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT CENTER — $145,615 · OtherAYANTI RE…A BETTER CHOICE ABC LLC — $145,500 · OtherA BETTER …NEW HORIZONS RANCH & CENTER INC — $145,000 · OtherNEW HORIZ…TEXAS FAMILY INITIATIVE LLC — $132,965 · OtherTEXAS FAM…SHERWOOD & MYRTIE FOSTER'S HOME FOR CHILDREN — $130,800 · OtherSHERWOOD …JOURNEY TO DREAM — $128,000 · OtherJOURNEY T…FOSTER TEXAS LLC — $104,100 · Other+14 more — $289,500 · Other+14 moreACH LANDOWNER — $582,162 · PhilanthropyHOUSE OF SHILOH FAMILY SERVICES INC — $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentUNBOUND NOW — $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentSpecial Parent Advocacy Group — $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE SETTLEMENT CLUB — $150,000 · HealthHEARTS WITH HOPE FOUNDATION INC — $131,000 · HealthCasa Esperanza Inc — $20,000 · HealthCentral Texas Table of Grace Inc — $150,000 · Housing & ShelterPARKS YOUTH RANCH INC — $11,500 · Housing & ShelterARROW CHILD & FAMILY MINISTRIES (CENTRAL ORGANIZATION) — $149,375 · Community Improvement
Crime & Legal$14,691,385Human Services$7,967,748Other$2,271,480Philanthropy$582,162Youth Development$450,000Health$301,000Housing & Shelter$161,500Community Improvement$149,375

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetACH LANDOWNER II — $14,671,385 over 4y, 95% of budgetACH LANDOWNER — $582,162 over 3y, 90% of budgetTHE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION — $150,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCHERISHED IMPRESSIONS CHILD PLACING — $150,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMONARCH FAMILY SERVICES — $150,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetTHE SETTLEMENT CLUB — $150,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE BAIR FOUNDATION OF TEXAS — $150,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLEADERS OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES & SERVICES — $150,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget1HOPE FOR KIDS INC — $150,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetSJRC TEXAS INC — $150,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHARBOR OF HOPE INC — $150,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S SHELTER — $150,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetROY MAAS' YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC — $150,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPATHWAYS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $150,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME OF LUBBOCK AND FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY INC — $150,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetRespite Care of San Antonio Inc — $150,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetAZLEWAY INC — $150,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetRefuge House Inc — $150,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetTEXAS GIRLS AND BOYS RANCH — $150,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetHOUSE OF SHILOH FAMILY SERVICES INC — $150,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetREACH CHILD PLACING AGENCY — $150,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetCIRCLE OF LIVING HOPE INC — $150,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetUNBOUND NOW — $150,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSAFE HAVEN ADOLESCENT HOME INC — $150,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetHELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC — $150,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLIFELINE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES — $150,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER — $150,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCentral Texas Table of Grace Inc — $150,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetGOOD HEARTS YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC — $150,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetAMAZING GRACE CHILD & FAMILY SEVICE — $150,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetBENEVOLENT HOUSE — $150,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetHOUSTON STRONG CHILDREN SERVICES — $150,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetYouth In View Inc — $150,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC — $150,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKID NET FOUNDATION JONATHANS PLACE — $150,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCUMBERLAND YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES — $150,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetVESSELS WITH PURPOSE CHILD PLACING — $150,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetSpecial Parent Advocacy Group — $150,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTEXAS BAPTIST HOME FOR CHILDREN — $149,747 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetThe Sanctuary Foster Care Services — $149,649 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN — $149,453 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetARROW CHILD & FAMILY MINISTRIES (CENTRAL ORGANIZATION) — $149,375 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNEW HORIZONS RANCH & CENTER INC — $145,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetADVANTAGE ADOPTIONS-OCOC — $145,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetNATIONAL YOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAM INC — $144,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACH LANDOWNER III — $140,568 over 2y, 19% of budgetCITY HOUSE INC — $137,500 over 1y, 4.6% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Texas Center for Chil…Carl C Anderson Sr an…Harvey E Najim Charit…The Moody FoundationSaint Francis Ministr…St Luke's Lutheran He…The Texas Cavaliers C…San Antonio Area Foun…San Antonio Food BankThe Charity Ball Asso…Nancy Smith Hurd Foun…The George Foundation
Texas Center for Child and Family StudiesTX109.2× affinity51 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Texas Center for Child and Family Studies · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Saint Francis Ministries Group Return · St Luke's Lutheran Health Ministries Inc · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · San Antonio Area Foundation · San Antonio Food Bank · The Charity Ball Association of San Antonio Inc · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · The George Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Ach Child and Family Services funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Special Parent Advocacy Group — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 105 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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