Virginia · Nonprofit
AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER IN SERVICE
AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER IN SERVICE (Virginia) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,390,864 to it, the largest being THE PAULEY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($859,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $903k
What Area Congregations Together in Service does
Mission
Preventing homelessness in our community by providing financial support and community resources to our neighbors in housing crisis.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Area Congregations Together in Service (acts) collaborates with 60+ partner congregations and other agencies in the greater richmond metropolitan area working to prevent homelessness. In fiscal year ending june 30, 2022, acts was designated by the partnership for housing affordability as the regional eviction prevention agency. That action put acts in place to accept funding from the virginia department of housing and community development as well as the fema funded, emergency food and shelter program which is administered by the united way of greater richmond and petersburg. During this fiscal year, acts was able to financially assist 464 households which included 1102 individuals. Acts also collaborates with other organizations working to provide food and clothing to our clients. During this fiscal year, acts provided 793,480 in rent/mortgage assistance and 94,422 in utility assistance . Without this assistance, our clients would not have been able to maintain their stable housing and would have possibly faced eviction leading to homelessness.
$452,461 spent31% of program spendingActs collaborates to operate the homeless connection line(hcl) in conjunction with home again, homeward, housing families first, and senior connections. Two acts employees work as an integral part of the hcl team. The hcl offers trained diversion specialists who can assist households within 3 days of losing their housing to problem solve, access community resouces, and connect to homeless assistance if needed. Total number of calls to the hcl was 83,403.the specialists assisted in 39,558 calls. The average monthly calls was 6,950.25.
$103,951 spent7% of program spendingDirect grants for program 4a
$897,532 spentof which $897,532 as grants62% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,453,944.
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 2020 to 2021, from $562k to $9.2M (+1529%).
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 7% · 2021 94% · 2022 94% · 2023 27% · 2024 16% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER IN SERVICE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
William Poarch
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $39k → $512k.
4 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER IN SERVICE’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER IN SERVICE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% 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
88% 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 CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER IN SERVICE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 46% · 2019 51% · 2020 38% · 2021 38% · 2022 61% · 2023 49% — 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
43% of AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER IN SERVICE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
64% of AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER IN SERVICE's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $707k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER IN SERVICE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER IN SERVICE
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER IN SERVICE?
- AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER IN SERVICE (Virginia) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,390,864 to it, the largest being THE PAULEY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($859,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER IN SERVICE have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $2,390,864 in grants to AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER IN SERVICE, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER IN SERVICE?
- THE PAULEY FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $859,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER IN SERVICE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 20 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