Texas · Nonprofit
ARROW CHILD & FAMILY MINISTRIES (CENTRAL ORGANIZATION)
ARROW CHILD & FAMILY MINISTRIES (CENTRAL ORGANIZATION) (Texas) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,166,993 to it, the largest being TEXAS CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY STUDIES ($3,558,644). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $-2706930
What Arrow Child & Family Ministries (Central Organization) does
Mission
Provide hope to children through foster care, adoptions, residential programs and special education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The consolidated group known as arrow child & family ministries (arrow) provides hope to children by providing safe environments such as foster and adoptive homes, group residential programs, and specialized education services to help in their development, arrow uses evidence-based clinical models which help aid children in their growth and development, arrow engages local communities and churches to help support its mission for helping kids and strengthening families.arrow consists of a central organization (acfm) and the combined affiliate group (acfm cag). Acfm provides centralized shared service in the areas of accounting, human resources, information technology, continuous quality improvement, and facilities management.
$162,288 spentof which $162,288 as grants$11,179,954 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $162,288.
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 2022 to 2023, from $11M to $16M (+45%).
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: 2021 1% · 2022 2% · 2023 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
11% of ARROW CHILD & FAMILY MINISTRIES (CENTRAL ORGANIZATION)’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Michael Scott Lundy
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Karen Dojan
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $15k → $253k.
7 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 ARROW CHILD & FAMILY MINISTRIES (CENTRAL ORGANIZATION)’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
ARROW CHILD & FAMILY MINISTRIES (CENTRAL ORGANIZATION) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 ARROW CHILD & FAMILY MINISTRIES (CENTRAL ORGANIZATION).
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 52% · 2020 51% · 2021 99% · 2022 85% · 2023 91% — 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
22% of ARROW CHILD & FAMILY MINISTRIES (CENTRAL ORGANIZATION)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 19% 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
96% of ARROW CHILD & FAMILY MINISTRIES (CENTRAL ORGANIZATION)'s grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $86k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
ARROW CHILD & FAMILY MINISTRIES (CENTRAL ORGANIZATION) runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 328 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 328 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like ARROW CHILD & FAMILY MINISTRIES (CENTRAL ORGANIZATION)
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
1% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Acfm of Texas · exempt
- Acfm of Maryland · exempt
- 4kids4families · exempt
- Aim Child & Family Services · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ARROW CHILD & FAMILY MINISTRIES (CENTRAL ORGANIZATION)?
- ARROW CHILD & FAMILY MINISTRIES (CENTRAL ORGANIZATION) (Texas) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,166,993 to it, the largest being TEXAS CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY STUDIES ($3,558,644). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARROW CHILD & FAMILY MINISTRIES (CENTRAL ORGANIZATION) have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $4,166,993 in grants to ARROW CHILD & FAMILY MINISTRIES (CENTRAL ORGANIZATION), 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARROW CHILD & FAMILY MINISTRIES (CENTRAL ORGANIZATION)?
- TEXAS CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY STUDIES is the largest funder on record, with $3,558,644 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARROW CHILD & FAMILY MINISTRIES (CENTRAL ORGANIZATION) 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.
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 21 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