Texas · Nonprofit
ATTACK POVERTY
ATTACK POVERTY (Texas) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,902,087 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Houston ($7,376,659). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $-929204
- Funders on record
- 64
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Attack Poverty does
Mission
To strengthen under-resourced communities through spiritual growth, education, revitalization, and basic needs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Attack Poverty concluded direct operations in Uganda and India. Friends of Uganda and Friends of India transitioned leadership to established local partner organizations that had reached operational self-sufficiency. Mercy Goods transitioned into its own 501c3. International Partnerships (Uganda & India) Attack Poverty's international model emphasizes supporting communities until local leaders are equipped to sustain programs independently. In 2024, long-standing partners in Uganda and India assumed full local leadership, with limited transition support provided through year-end. Uganda: Local partners continued holistic community development including education, water access, and economic initiatives. Rushere Christian High School served 142 students, with all Senior Four candidates passing national exams. Recovery Christian School in Bukomero served 146 students, secured its government operating license, expanded grade levels, and established a Parent-Teacher Association. Community members also launched a savings group supporting micro-enterprise and agricultural initiatives. India: Living Stone Ministry continued operation of the House of Love Orphanage, serving 66 orphaned and vulnerable children with housing, nutrition, education, counseling, and life-skills support. All children successfully completed the academic year. These transitions reflect sustained impact and alignment with Attack Poverty's strategy of empowering communities to maintain programs under local…
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Attack Poverty is an organization focused on empowering individuals to combat poverty within their own lives and communities. They achieve this by strengthening under-resourced communities through a multifaceted approach that includes spiritual growth, education, revitalization, and addressing basic needs. They focus on education via educational support, personal and life-skills development, strategic goal planning, mentoring relationships, and training. Attack Poverty also works on community revitalization projects and equips community members to lead change. They address basic needs such as food distribution, financial and utility assistance, mental health resources, and providing warming and cooling centers.
$1,369,721 spent80% of program spendingWhen not responding to disasters, the Disaster Recovery program focuses on community stabilization through emergency sheltering, home safety improvements, volunteer mobilization, and basic-needs support. During the year, 183 individuals were served through cooling centers, warming centers, and emergency shelter operations. Following Hurricane Beryl, Attack Poverty partnered with Fort Bend County and the American Red Cross to operate a multi-week emergency shelter at the Friends of North Rosenberg Resource Center, providing meals, hygiene supplies, showers, and safe lodging for displaced residents. The center was reactivated in January during severe freeze conditions to provide overnight warming shelter. Prevention and resilience efforts also expanded. In partnership with the Red Cross, volunteers installed smoke detectors in 122 homes, improving safety for more than 300 residents. Community revitalization continued through Serve Days, which mobilized nearly 700 volunteers contributing more than 1,700 hours across projects including home repair, neighborhood improvement, and community distributions.
$304,419 spent18% of program spendingThe Flourishment Program supports adults in overcoming barriers and building long-term stability through individualized goal planning, coaching, and connection to community resources. During the year,36 adults enrolled, with 30 actively engaged at year-end. Participants made measurable progress toward employment, financial stability, and personal well-being, including securing jobs, accessing mental health support, and strengthening social support networks. Participant retention and re-engagement reflect strong trust and program relevance. The program also expanded its support network through the launch of CarePortal, a platform connecting local churches to tangible community needs. This partnership increased resource capacity and strengthened collaborative support for participating families. Volunteer Program Attack Poverty continued strengthening its volunteer-led service model through implementation of a comprehensive Volunteer Strategy focused on targeted recruitment, structured onboarding, role alignment, and ongoing training. During the year: . 97% of recruited regular volunteers completed onboarding . 67% annual retention rate achieved among active volunteers This approach…
$45,230 spent3% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$214 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,719,584.
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 2024 to 2025, from $6.9M to $1.6M (−76%).
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: 2022 10% · 2023 19% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
-126% of ATTACK POVERTY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Marguerite Williams
CEO
Board chair
Nicolas Vann
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 19 funders, grant income fell $1.7M → $951k.
15 of 64 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 ATTACK POVERTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 64 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
ATTACK POVERTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
68% 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 ATTACK POVERTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 63% · 2019 59% · 2020 53% · 2021 52% · 2022 41% · 2023 67% — 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.
How long its funders stay
29% of ATTACK POVERTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
89% of ATTACK POVERTY's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
ATTACK POVERTY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,793 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,793 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like ATTACK POVERTY
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
75%
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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ATTACK POVERTY: 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 ATTACK POVERTY?
- ATTACK POVERTY (Texas) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,902,087 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Houston ($7,376,659). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ATTACK POVERTY have?
- IRS filings report 64 organizations giving $18,902,087 in grants to ATTACK POVERTY, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ATTACK POVERTY?
- United Way of Greater Houston is the largest funder on record, with $7,376,659 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ATTACK POVERTY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 64 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