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Association of Community Ministries Inc

The association of community ministries (acm) is an umbrella organization bringing 13 louisville, kentucky-based community ministries together to serve residents on a neighborhood level.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$119k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$14MReligion$416kHousing & Shelter$112k
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $1,273,316, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,304,228 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $30,912 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$103,050
Median grant
1
States reached
$386k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEFFERSONTOWN AREA MINISTRIES$119,423
EAST AREA COMMUNITY MINISTRIES$117,595
FERN CREEKHIGH VIEW UNITED MIN$116,973
SOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MIN$114,994
SHIVELY AREA MINISTRIES$112,045
WEST LOUISVILLE COMM MIN$103,595
SISTER VISITOR$103,050
MINISTRIES UNITED SOUTH CENTRAL LOU$100,140
CENTRAL LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MIN$96,973
SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY MINISTRIES$92,263
ST MATTHEWS AREA MINISTRIES$70,050
HIGHLANDS COMMUNITY MINISTRIES$65,595
UNITED CRESCENT HILL MINISTRIES$60,620
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $3.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $435k → 15%SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $263k → 15%SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $177k → 15%SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $92k → 15%SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $79k → 15%FERN CREEKHIGHVIEW UNITED MINISTRIES: $603k → 15%FERN CREEKHIGHVIEW UNITED MINISTRIES: $410k → 15%FERN CREEKHIGHVIEW UNITED MINISTRIES: $186k → 15%FERN CREEKHIGH VIEW UNITED MIN: $117k → 15%FERN CREEKHIGHVIEW UNITED MINISTRIES: $117k → 15%SISTER VISITOR: $326k → 15%SISTER VISITOR: $230k → 15%SISTER VISITOR: $103k → 15%SISTER VISITOR: $100k → 15%SISTER VISITOR: $79k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 13 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
0

Total granted

$15M
$0

Still filing today

69%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SL
    SOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +96% · 73% of their budget
  • FC
    FERN CREEK HIGHVIEW UNITED MINISTRIES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +2% · 53% of their budget
  • EA
    EASTERN AREA COMMUNITY MINISTRIES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +8% · 44% of their budget

Funded once

    How this is measured

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

    04Its field

    Closest unfunded matches

    The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

    1
    Association of Community Ministries Inc

    The association of community ministries (acm) is an umbrella organization bringing 13 louisville, kentucky-based community ministries together to serve residents on a neighborhood level. the acm network is proud to be a national model…

    Religion
    2
    Community Ministries Inc Community Kitchen

    Providing free lunches to the hungry, sheltering the homeless during inclement weather, and case management for those seeking financial assistance. services are offered to those in the paducah, kentucky area.

    Religion
    3
    Christian Community Ministries of Kershaw County

    Christian Community Ministries is a financial crisis ministry helping those who fall within our definition of crisis. Except for one paid administrator, we are a totally volunteer organization. We operate as an extension of the servant…

    Religion
    4
    Christian Action Ministries

    Christian Action Ministries is a non-denominational local organization that is dedicated to providing short-term food assistance to individuals and families in Taney and Stone Counties in Missouri who are experiencing temporary crisis.

    —
    5
    Jefferson County Community Ministries Inc

    Assistance to people in need

    —
    6
    Faith Mountain Mission of Kentucky Inc
    Youth Development
    7
    Limestone County Churches Involved

    To provide food and general assistance to individuals of Limestone County Alabama who are facing short term financial crisesTo mobilize churches of Limestone County to provide a prayerful way to meet the physical and spiritual needs of…

    Religion
    8
    Coordinated Assistance Ministries

    Assistance ministry for those in need.

    Human Services
    9
    Emergency Christian Ministries Inc

    A religious and community-based ministry for those who are homeless and in need.

    Human Services
    10
    Elbert County United Methodist Food Ministry Inc
    Food & Nutrition
    11
    Crisis Ministries

    To assist individuals and families who are struggling financially by offering help for today and hope for tomorrow.

    Religion
    12
    Community Christian Ministries

    The mission of Community Christian Ministries is evangelism, edification and unity of the saints.

    —
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eastern Area Community Ministries; the most unlike its peers is Catholic Charities of Louisville Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
    04the grantee network

    9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

    Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

    How this is measured

    Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

    Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

    8
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    2
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    9/9
    Grantees still filing
    6/9
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    SOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $2,469,547 · OtherSOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INCEASTERN AREA COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $1,351,143 · OtherEASTERN AREA COMMUNITY MINISTRIESM U S C L INC: $1,138,171 · OtherM U S C L INCCENTRAL LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $1,064,806 · OtherCENTRAL LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INCHIGHLANDS COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $871,394 · OtherHIGHLANDS COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INCST MATTHEWS AREA MINISTRIES: $728,807 · OtherST MATTHEWS AREA MINISTRIESUNITED CRESCENT HILL MINISTRIES INC: $510,542 · OtherUNITED CRESCENT HILL MINISTRIES INCFERN CREEK HIGHVIEW UNITED MINISTRIES: $1,433,364 · Human ServicesFERN CREEK HIGHVIEW UNITED MINISTRIESJEFFERSONTOWN AREA MINISTRIES INC: $1,372,052 · Human ServicesJEFFERSONTOWN AREA MINISTRIES INCSouthwest Community Ministries: $1,046,435 · Human ServicesSouthwest Community MinistriesWEST LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $876,978 · Human ServicesWEST LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC: $837,675 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INCSHIVELY AREA MINISTRIES: $1,096,390 · Housing & Shelter
    Other$8,134,410Human Services$5,566,504Housing & Shelter$1,096,390

    Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

    25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $2,469,547 over 5y, 73% of budgetFERN CREEK HIGHVIEW UNITED MINISTRIES: $1,433,364 over 5y, 53% of budgetJEFFERSONTOWN AREA MINISTRIES INC: $1,372,052 over 5y, 91% of budgetEASTERN AREA COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $1,351,143 over 5y, 44% of budgetSHIVELY AREA MINISTRIES: $1,096,390 over 5y, 38% of budgetCENTRAL LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $1,064,806 over 5y, 83% of budgetSouthwest Community Ministries: $1,046,435 over 5y, 51% of budgetWEST LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $876,978 over 5y, 71% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC: $837,675 over 5y, 2.1% of budget
    Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

    • Who funds SOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
    • Who funds FERN CREEK HIGHVIEW UNITED MINISTRIES ↗
    • Who funds JEFFERSONTOWN AREA MINISTRIES INC ↗
    • Who funds EASTERN AREA COMMUNITY MINISTRIES ↗
    • Who funds SHIVELY AREA MINISTRIES ↗
    • Who funds CENTRAL LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
    • Who funds Southwest Community Ministries ↗
    • Who funds WEST LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
    • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗

    Co-funders

    Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

    Community Winterhelp …Metro United Way IncThe Community Foundat…Honorable Order of Ke…Kosair Charities Comm…The Gheens Foundation…The Community Foundat…LG&E and Ku Foundatio…Mightycause Charitabl…The Community Foundat…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Baird Foundation Inc
    Community Winterhelp IncKY30.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

    Open a dossier: Community Winterhelp Inc · Metro United Way Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc

    How this is measured
    Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization Association of Community Ministries Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Association of Community Ministries Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
      8report 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
      How this is measured
      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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

      On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

      How this is measured
      Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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