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Alliance of Community Assistance Ministries Inc

The acam network advances collaboration to create community-wide solutions for thriving nonprofits, neighborhoods and families.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$277k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Housing & Shelter$5.9MHuman Services$2.9MEmployment$2.6MYouth Development$683kPublic Safety & Disaster$507kHealth$234kEducation$110kFood & Nutrition$91kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+1 grant · $277k
$121,096
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORKTEXAS TRAINING CENTER$276,682
EPIPHANY COMMUNITY HEALTH OUTREACH SERVICES (ECHOS)$235,678
HUMBLE AREA ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES INC (HAMM)$193,833
MEMORIAL ASSISTANCE MINISTIRES (MAM)$188,650
WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC OF HOUSTO TEXAS$141,869
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF GREATER HOUSTON$136,075
WEST HOUSTON ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES INC (WHAM)$121,096
ST VINCENTS HOUSE$115,000
UNITED FOR COLLEGE AND CAREER SUCCESS$100,000
KATY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES (KCM)$98,480
CENTER FOR CAREER TRANSFORMATION HOUSTON$95,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON-HOUSTON$95,000
SER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC$80,650
MAIN STREET MINISTRIES$25,041
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $7.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%INTERFAITH CARING MINISTRIES: $56k → 14%WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC OF HOUSTON TEXAS: $372k → 16%INTERFAITH CARING MINISTRIES: $31k → 14%WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC OF HOUSTON TEXAS: $366k → 16%INTERFAITH CARING MINISTRIES (ICM): $31k → 14%WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC OF HOUSTON TEXAS: $329k → 16%EAST FORT BEND HUMAN NEEDS MINISTRY: $55k → 8%COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER: $69k → 9%EAST FORT BEND HUMAN NEEDS MINISTRY (EFBHNM): $39k → 8%COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER: $27k → 9%ST VINCENTS HOUSE: $115k → 14%WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC OF HOUSTON TEXAS: $235k → 16%ST VINCENT'S HOUSE: $35k → 14%WORKTEXAS TRAINING CENTER: $412k → 16%ST VINCENT'S HOUSE: $34k → 14%ST VINCENT'S HOUSE: $30k → 14%WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $152k → 16%WORKTEXAS TRAINING CENTER: $304k → 16%WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC OF HOUSTO TEXAS: $142k → 16%WORKTEXAS TRAINING CENTER: $277k → 16%WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $105k → 16%WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $30k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON-HOUSTON: $95k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $60k → 16%HUMBLE AREA ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES INC: $343k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $31k → 16%MAIN STREET MINISTRIES: $73k → 16%MAIN STREET MINISTRIES: $61k → 16%MAIN STREET MINISTRIES: $30k → 16%EPIPHANY COMMUNITY HEALTH OUTREACH SERVICES (ECHOS): $236k → 16%MEMORIAL ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $225k → 16%MEMORIAL ASSISTANCE MINISTIRES (MAM): $189k → 16%MEMORIAL ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES (MAM): $63k → 16%MEMORIAL ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $40k → 16%KATY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES (KCM): $301k → 16%KATY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $172k → 16%KATY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES (KCM): $114k → 16%KATY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $109k → 16%KATY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $100k → 16%KATY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES (KCM): $98k → 16%KATY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES (KCM): $95k → 16%NORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $51k → 16%KATY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $52k → 16%HUMBLE AREA ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES INC: $604k → 16%HUMBLE AREA ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES INC: $597k → 16%HUMBLE AREA ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES INC: $363k → 16%HUMBLE AREA ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES INC (HAMM): $194k → 16%BRIDGE YEAR: $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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 24 repeat orgs$728k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
8

Total granted

$12M
$553k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+28%

Still filing today

96%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $176k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEmploymentCommunity ImprovementHealthReligionEducationOther

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

  • WC
    WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC OF HOUSTON TEXAS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +105%
  • KC
    Katy Christian Ministries
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +95%
  • WH
    WEST HOUSTON ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $531k · revenue +130%

Funded once

  • United Way of Greater Houstongraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $225k · revenue +28%
  • B
    BRIDGEYEARgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +122%
  • SS
    SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL
    one grant, 2023 · $87k · revenue -39%

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
Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County

The mission of Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County (Family Houston) is to create a stronger community for tomorrow by helping individuals and families meet the challenges they face today. We help others help themselves.

Human Services
2
West Street Recovery

West Street Recovery's mission is to connect communities to the resources they need to rebuild after climate disasters such as Hurricane Harvey and build resilient, secure, and stronger communities.

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Coalition for the Homeless of Houston Harris County

The coalition for the homeless of houston/harris county acts as a catalyst, uniting partners and maximizing resources to move people experiencing homelessness into permanent housing with supportive services.

Housing & Shelter
4
LifeHouse of Houston Inc

LifeHouse is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help, and hope for young women during their pregnancies and beyond.

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5
Breakthrough Houston

The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.

Education
6
Katy Responds

Katy Responds is a collaborative network of churches, businesses and community organizations committed to providing care & restoration services returning families to their homes following disaster, as well as assist in community readiness.

Human Services
7
Houston Responds

To unite, empower and mobilize churches to multiply collective impact on critical needs in their community.

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Houston Area Women's Center

The Houston Area Women's Center (HAWC) works to end domestic and sexual violence and supports all in building safe and healthy lives through advocacy, counseling, education, shelter, and support services.

Human Services
9
Houston Area Community Services

Our mission is to provide high quality and caring services to promote healthy people and communities.

Health
10
The Beacon of Downtown Houston

To provide essential and next-step services to restore hope and help end homelessness in houston.

Health
11
Nestquest Houston Inc

To expand housing access in high opportunity areas for low income clients.

Housing & Shelter
12
Watershed Human and Community Development Agency Inc

Assisting in the growth and development of the College Station community in the areas of employment health care housing and counseling.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Houston Assistance Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Montrose Grace Place. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEthnic & Faith Community Ce…Community Health AccessAffordable Housing ProvidersBusiness & Industry Trade A…Independent K-12 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number31%7%<5yr18%10%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr17%10%20–35yr7%23%35–55yr7%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value31%6%<5yr18%12%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr17%3%20–35yr7%26%35–55yr7%49%55yr+

The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/34
the rest of the field
19%
4,662/24,702

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

33 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. 33 of the 34 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
21/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HUMBLE AREA ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES INC — $2,726,073 · Human ServicesHUMBLE AREA ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES INCWESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC OF HOUSTON TEXAS — $1,730,687 · Human ServicesWESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC OF HOUSTON TEXASKaty Christian Ministries — $1,041,193 · Human ServicesKaty Christian MinistriesWork Texas Training Center — $1,012,911 · Human ServicesWork Texas Training CenterMemorial Assistance Ministries — $516,168 · Human ServicesMemorial Assistance Ministries+11 more — $1,483,357 · Human Services+11 morePROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA — $1,255,898 · OtherPROTESTANT EPISCOPA…WEST HOUSTON ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES INC — $530,907 · OtherWEST HOUSTON ASSIST…Society of St Vincent de Paul Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston — $271,615 · OtherSociety of St Vince…MY BROTHER'S KEEPER OUTREACH CENTER — $77,450 · Other+3 more — $67,000 · OtherCAREER & RECOVERY RESOURCES INC — $681,646 · EmploymentCAREER & RE…GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF HOUSTON — $287,088 · EmploymentGOODWILL IN…HOUSTON'S CAPITAL INVESTING IN DEVELOP- MENT AND EMPLOYMENT OF ADULTS INC — $181,016 · EmploymentHOUSTON'S C…CENTER FOR CAREER TRANSFORMATION — $95,000 · EmploymentCENTER FOR …SER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC — $80,650 · EmploymentSER-JOBS FO…Ufcs — $311,045 · HealthEASTER SEALS OF GREATER HOUSTON INC — $153,682 · HealthUnited Way of Greater Houston — $225,000 · PhilanthropyWOODLANDS RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY INC — $205,240 · Community ImprovementEAST HARRIS COUNTY EMPOWERMENT COUNCIL — $10,000 · Community ImprovementSOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL — $86,500 · Social Science
Human Services$8,510,389Other$2,202,870Employment$1,325,400Health$464,727Philanthropy$225,000Community Improvement$215,240Social Science$86,500

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 budgetHUMBLE AREA ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES INC — $2,726,073 over 8y, 14% of budgetWESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC OF HOUSTON TEXAS — $1,730,687 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetKaty Christian Ministries — $1,041,193 over 8y, 6.0% of budgetWork Texas Training Center — $1,012,911 over 4y, 20% of budgetCAREER & RECOVERY RESOURCES INC — $681,646 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetWEST HOUSTON ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES INC — $530,907 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetMemorial Assistance Ministries — $516,168 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetUfcs — $311,045 over 2y, 69% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF HOUSTON — $287,088 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSociety of St Vincent de Paul Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston — $271,615 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetEPIPHANY COMMUNITY HEALTH OUTREACH SERVICES — $250,978 over 2y, 14% of budgetST VINCENTS HOUSE — $240,630 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston — $225,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMain Street Ministries Houston — $209,556 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetWOODLANDS RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY INC — $205,240 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON — $195,843 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSTON'S CAPITAL INVESTING IN DEVELOP- MENT AND EMPLOYMENT OF ADULTS INC — $181,016 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetEASTER SEALS OF GREATER HOUSTON INC — $153,682 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBRIDGEYEAR — $150,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetEAST FORT BEND HUMAN NEEDS MINISTRY — $130,406 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetINTERFAITH CARING MINISTRIES INC — $128,792 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetCrisis Assistance Center Inc dba Community Assistance Center — $106,152 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetCENTER FOR CAREER TRANSFORMATION — $95,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetSOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL — $86,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC — $80,650 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetMY BROTHER'S KEEPER OUTREACH CENTER — $77,450 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetNORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES — $51,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetInterfaith Ministries for Greater Houston — $37,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCY-HOPE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST YOUTH MINISTRIES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSECOND MILE MISSION CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEAST HARRIS COUNTY EMPOWERMENT COUNCIL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWALLER ASSIST & RESTOR MINISTRIES — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% 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.

United Way of Greater…Greater Houston Commu…Baxter Trust Co Priva…The Houston Food BankCenterpoint Energy Fo…Shell USA Company Fou…Albert & Ethel Herzst…The Methodist HospitalThe William Stamps Fa…The Brown Foundation …Marek Family Foundati…Texas Mutual Insuranc…
United Way of Greater HoustonTX44.7× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Houston · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · The Houston Food Bank · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Methodist Hospital · The William Stamps Farish Fund · The Brown Foundation Inc · Marek Family Foundation · Texas Mutual Insurance Company

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 Alliance of Community Assistance Ministries Inc 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%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report 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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Alliance of Community Assistance Ministries Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Alliance of Community Assistance Ministries Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 34 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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