South Carolina · Nonprofit
AREA CHURCHES TOGETHER SERVING
AREA CHURCHES TOGETHER SERVING (South Carolina) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,089,040 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF AIKEN COUNTY INC ($413,887). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Area Churches Together Serving does
Mission
Acts mission is to partner with churches, organizations and individuals to provide assistance to our neighbors in need. The organization serves households with emergency assistance in aiken county, sc. Services include food, clothing, utility assistance, medical assistance, transportation, rent assistance, furniture and housewares.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The organization provided services in the form of food, clothing, medical an dental assistance, utility assistance, rent assistance, furniture and housewares and transportation in 2024. 17,328 volunteer hours were recorded. The total value of the volunteer hours to operating acts programs and services was $580,315.
$483,241 spent59% of program spendingActs operates three food programs. The food pantry is open five days a week to help clients who are food insecure. The senior food program operates the third saturday of every month and serves approximately 348 qualified seniors with a weeks worth of supplemental food (food for 21 meals per week). Many seniors are living on less than $800 a month and may struggle to meet food, medical and housing expenses. The monthly community food distributions are held in rural, underserved areas of aiken county in order to meet the needs of individuals and families who have limited access to services and little to no transportation. The monthly food distributions occur in ridge spring, oakwood-windsor, new ellenton, wagener, perry and salley. All food program participants meet income eligibility guidelines and receive a weeks worth of food based on family size. Acts serves approximately 1,900 - 2,000 individuals with food assistance each month. Acts clients who need clothing receive clothing vouchers to be used in the acts resale stores monday through friday and within two weeks of receiving the voucher. Our program guidelines state that clothing vouchers can be provided four times a year,…
$190,750 spent23% of program spendingActs provides emergency utility assistance including utility payments, portable fans and portable electric heaters to individuals and families in need of supplemental assistance. When it is established that the client is qualified, utility companies are contacted to verify the bill and overdue status. Payment pledges to the utility companies are made in partnership with the client who pays a portion of the bill, thus avoiding the disconnection of service for the client. In 2024, the organization provided utility assistance for 1,647 homes.
$130,357 spent16% of program spendingThe acts medical assistance program provides financial assistance for prescriptions, medical and dental visits and procedures, medical equipment and other medical necessities for qualified clients. Clients must have a doctors written prescription for medical and refill authorizations. Clients must make and attend an appointment for a visit or procedures within a preset period. Most clients are the working poor who do not have medical or health insurance and the elderly living on social security with incomes less than $800/month. Clients are interviewed to determine overall needs. No cash is provided to the clients; rather, payment is sent directly to the service provider.
$20,689 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $825,037.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.4M to $1.7M (+22%).
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: 2017 5% · 2018 3% · 2019 2% · 2020 1% · 2021 3% · 2022 2% · 2023 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of AREA CHURCHES TOGETHER SERVING’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $56k → $97k.
7 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 AREA CHURCHES TOGETHER SERVING’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 16 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
AREA CHURCHES TOGETHER SERVING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
87% 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 AREA CHURCHES TOGETHER SERVING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 75% · 2019 100% · 2020 59% · 2021 45% · 2022 41% · 2023 44% — 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
63% of AREA CHURCHES TOGETHER SERVING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
81% of AREA CHURCHES TOGETHER SERVING's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $502k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Against its field
AREA CHURCHES TOGETHER SERVING runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like AREA CHURCHES TOGETHER SERVING
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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AREA CHURCHES TOGETHER SERVING: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AREA CHURCHES TOGETHER SERVING?
- AREA CHURCHES TOGETHER SERVING (South Carolina) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,089,040 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF AIKEN COUNTY INC ($413,887). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AREA CHURCHES TOGETHER SERVING have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,089,040 in grants to AREA CHURCHES TOGETHER SERVING, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AREA CHURCHES TOGETHER SERVING?
- UNITED WAY OF AIKEN COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $413,887 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AREA CHURCHES TOGETHER SERVING find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 16 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