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COMPASSION MINISTRIES OF WACO

COMPASSION MINISTRIES OF WACO (Texas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,475,739 to it, the largest being PAUL & JANE MEYER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($332,490). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$964k
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
$8.9M
15/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 42%
01What it does

What Compassion Ministries of Waco does

Mission

It is the mission of the organization to provide services to disadvantaged and homeless families with children; to reintegrate homeless families with children into permanent housing and employment.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Compassion Ministries of Waco provides transitional housing for homeless families with children. The facility can house up to 60 individuals at any point in time in the fourteen apartment units for families. Upon acceptance into the program, residents work with the case manager to design a service plan for the duration of their stay, which is usually six months. The plan identifies needs and objectives and outlines how each will be met during the resident's stay. It covers housing, employment, family needs (childcare, parenting courses, aa/na counseling, etc.), health care and personal goals. The staff provides necessary support and referrals to implement and achieve these objectives by the set target date. Each plan is re-evaluated regularly by the staff and resident to determine progress. As part of the housing goal, the organization works on qualifying families for affordable home ownership through partnerships with other local non profit organizatioins such as habitat for humanity, grassroots community development, and neighborworks.

    $260,611 spent$28,312 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $260,611.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($793k) Expenses 100 ($483k) Net assets 100 ($5.6M)2018 Revenue 71 ($561k) Expenses 90 ($436k) Net assets 99 ($5.5M)2019 Revenue 76 ($603k) Expenses 89 ($429k) Net assets 116 ($6.4M)2020 Revenue 59 ($466k) Expenses 88 ($424k) Net assets 131 ($7.3M)2021 Revenue 82 ($647k) Expenses 92 ($442k) Net assets 148 ($8.2M)2022 Revenue 79 ($624k) Expenses 100 ($485k) Net assets 133 ($7.4M)2023 Revenue 52 ($413k) Expenses 94 ($455k) Net assets 146 ($8.1M)2024 Revenue 122 ($964k) Expenses 103 ($496k) Net assets 161 ($8.9M)
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Revenue (122)Expenses (103)Net assets (161)Peer revenue range

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 $7.4M to $8.3M (+13%).

$5.6M
$5.5M
$6.5M
$7.4M
$8.3M
$7.4M
$8.2M
$9.0M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 11% · 2021 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

33% of COMPASSION MINISTRIES OF WACO’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,439 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$310k
’17
$125k
’18
$175k
’19
$43k
’20
$205k
’21
$140k
’22
−$42k
’23
$468k
’24
15
months of
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

Staci Love

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

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Listed1314131314131311
Joined·+5+0+3+6+4+1+7
No longer listed·4135519
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 11 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $311k → $150k.

5 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 COMPASSION MINISTRIES OF WACO’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

COMPASSION MINISTRIES OF WACO has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

64% 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 COMPASSION MINISTRIES OF WACO.

23%
largest funder
64%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 53% · 2019 51% · 2020 66% · 2021 26% · 2022 45% · 2023 72% — 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

53% of COMPASSION MINISTRIES OF WACO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

95% of COMPASSION MINISTRIES OF WACO's grant income comes from Texas funders.

NC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $458k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

COMPASSION MINISTRIES OF WACO runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin49% · top quartile
Months of reserve14.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like COMPASSION MINISTRIES OF WACO

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

53% of spending goes to programs.

Program 53%Management 42%Fundraising 5%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

67%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds COMPASSION MINISTRIES OF WACO?
COMPASSION MINISTRIES OF WACO (Texas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,475,739 to it, the largest being PAUL & JANE MEYER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($332,490). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COMPASSION MINISTRIES OF WACO have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,475,739 in grants to COMPASSION MINISTRIES OF WACO, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COMPASSION MINISTRIES OF WACO?
PAUL & JANE MEYER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $332,490 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMPASSION MINISTRIES OF WACO 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 19 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