Texas · Nonprofit
ADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION
ADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION (Texas) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,283,476 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ($1,765,887). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $9.3M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Advocates for Community Transformation does
Mission
Advocates for Community Transformation (act) equips underserved residents to fight crime on their streets using the justice system by working collaboratively with partners to make safety a reality for everyone.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Advocates for Community Transformation (act) is a christian organization that exists to make stronger and safer neighborhoods a normal reality for everyone. Act carries out this vision through empowering residents living in high-crime areas to stop illegal activity on their street using the civil justice system. Founded on christian principles and a desire to see shalom ushered back to our neighborhoods, act uses civil law to shut down these houses that eat away at the fiber of once peaceful neighborhoods. Act's legal advocacy model is a private solution to the public problem these drug houses pose. Act uses existing civil laws to bring legal action against the owners of the drug houses seeking injunctive relief that forces the cessation of the illegal activity. In 15 years, act has shut down over 256 drug houses, impacting more than 39,000 of our neighbors who live within just 0.1 mile of the shuttered houses. This innovative approach disrupts this fight and provides a winning solution that brings neighbors, law enforcement, and pro bono attorneys together using existing civil law to tackle this entrenched problem that plagues every major city in the united states. Act's unique…
$2,874,824 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,874,824.
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 $1.8M to $2.9M (+59%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 15% · 2021 16% · 2022 17% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $369k → $1.4M.
17 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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
ADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
79% 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 ADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 33% · 2019 32% · 2020 37% · 2021 25% · 2022 25% · 2023 18% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
61% of ADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
71% of ADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION'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 $2.7M that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 states 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 ADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION?
- ADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION (Texas) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,283,476 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ($1,765,887). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $9,283,476 in grants to ADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION?
- COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,765,887 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 52 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing