Maryland · Nonprofit
ADVENTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTH AMERICA INC
ADVENTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTH AMERICA INC (Maryland) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,359 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($1,159). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $7.5M
What Adventist Community Services North America Inc does
Mission
Adventist community services north america (acsna) has been established as a humanitarian relief and individual/community development ministry to fulfill the mission of the seventh-day adventist church in the u.s., guam, and bermuda, which is to serve communities in christ's name.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Disaster response acsna operates with a statemnet of understanding with the federal emergency managemnt agency, the american red cross and many state emergency management agencies. It helps disaster survivors by providing grants to adventist community serviceslocal communities for hurricanes, tornadoes, building collapse, and refugee relief efforts.
$155,865 spentof which $73,401 as grants21% of program spendingCommunity development/urban ministry - nad acs provides seed grants throughout the year to provide adventist community services centers to help with expansions, upgrades, and new innovations to meet the needs in their communities. Applications are received and reviewed by the review committee and recommended to the acs board for approval. Acsna also has conducted several acs leadership development symposiums: 1. Non-profit leadership certification program (nlcp. Nlcp is designed to equip pastors and church members with strategies and professional skills to successfully lead. It focuses on three major learning outcomes: a) managerial skills, b) leadership skills, and c) biblical concepts of holistic ministry. 2. Community services and urban ministry certification program. It contains 15 modules which instructor anywhere in the world can adopt and present to locals who desire to be better equipped to serve their communities. The modules are written by a variety of authors, and presented in a variety of styles and formats. This program was transcribed in three more languages, portuguese, french, and spanish.
$481,387 spentof which $430,682 as grants$4,958 earned by the program66% of program spendingYoung adults in service (yas) - a ministry to engage and networks youth and young adults beyond service ministries (ministries of compassion). It is fundamentally rooted in the mission statement of acs: "serving communities in christ's name". Through yas, you are part of an important network of young people throughout north america who develop their leadership skills. You will engage in random acts of kindness, strategically planned service events, disaster response and emergency relief. Yas teams seek to develop sustainable community development for the whole community. Through service you demonstrate compassion, and follow christ's example in meeting the temporary and permanent needs of others. The yas network consists of affiliations with various schools, youth organizations, pathfinder clubs, and youth ministries, and community service groups.
$94,359 spent13% of program spendingOlder adult ministry - offers a curriculum with a variety of topics that prepares volunteers to address the needs of odler adults, caregivers, and how to age successfully. Part of the funds goes for professional memberships in order to maintain up-to-date material and education on this subject. This also includes a web-portal for chuch members to access information related to aging and care.
$1,730 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $733,341.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $8.0M to $7.0M (−13%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
W Derrick Lea
Acs executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $0 → $222.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $150k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Adventist Development & Relief Agency International). These are real filings, and they are not money ADVENTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTH AMERICA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ADVENTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTH AMERICA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 6 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ADVENTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTH AMERICA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ADVENTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTH AMERICA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 53% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
85% of ADVENTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTH AMERICA INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $200 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like ADVENTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTH AMERICA INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- North American Division of Sda Church · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ADVENTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTH AMERICA INC?
- ADVENTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTH AMERICA INC (Maryland) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,359 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($1,159). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ADVENTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTH AMERICA INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,359 in grants to ADVENTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTH AMERICA INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADVENTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTH AMERICA INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,159 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADVENTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTH AMERICA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing