Texas · Nonprofit
Memorial Assistance Ministries
Memorial Assistance Ministries (Texas) receives grants from 98 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,220,781 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Houston ($9,417,475). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $21M
- Funders on record
- 98
- Grants received
- $38M
- Net assets
- $30M
What Memorial Assistance Ministries does
Mission
MAM partners with hardworking Houstonians to build stable lives and hope-filled futures. Through education, training, and community connection, we enhance economic mobility and holistic health across the region.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Stable Families (10,728 served): MAM creates opportunities for families to become financially stable, maintain safe housing, access healthy food and healthcare, and plan for the future. Services include Navigation Services and Information Referrals, Financial Assistance, Financial Coaching and Education, Benefits Enrollment Assistance, and Disaster Assistance.
$1,962,329 spentof which $833,072 as grants30% of program spendingDynamic Workforce (3,384 Served): MAM builds a stronger workforce through adult education, training, and support services, resulting in stable employment and viable career pathways. Services include Job Readiness, Job Coaching, Vocational Training, Pathways for Young Adults, Immigration Legal Services, and Literacy Advance Services: English as a Second Language (ESL), Citizenship, and Digital Literacy.
$2,476,509 spentof which $152,362 as grants$82,063 earned by the program38% of program spendingVibrant Communities (5,088 Served): MAM helps communities and their residents become healthy, connected, resilient, and engaged through mental health and healthcare access, volunteering, and community engagement. Services include Mental Health Counseling, Medical Assistance (health, dental, vision, and prescription), Voter Registration, Getting Ahead, Back to School, and Christmas Share.
$650,760 spentof which $19,050 as grants10% of program spendingMAM RESALE sells donated goods to provide a low-cost source of clothing, furniture, books, toys, and household goods to families served by MAM and others in the community. Students from MAM's ESL and employment programs volunteer at MAM Resale to improve their skills. In 2023, 1,578 vouchers for clothing, household goods, and furniture supported community members on their pathway to stability and independence.
$1,469,435 spent22% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,559,033.
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 $19M to $31M (+65%).
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 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 1% · 2020 0% · 2021 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Memorial Assistance Ministries’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Sonja Gee
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 51 funders, grant income rose $3.3M → $5.0M.
16 of 98 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $442k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Literacy Advance of Houston Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Memorial Assistance Ministries raised.
From the IRS filings of Memorial Assistance Ministries’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 98 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
Memorial Assistance Ministries has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
72% 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 Memorial Assistance Ministries.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 40% · 2019 36% · 2020 56% · 2021 66% · 2022 49% · 2023 28% — 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
55% of Memorial Assistance Ministries's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
92% of Memorial Assistance Ministries's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
Memorial Assistance Ministries runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,289 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,289 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like Memorial Assistance Ministries
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Memorial Assistance Ministries: 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 Memorial Assistance Ministries?
- Memorial Assistance Ministries (Texas) receives grants from 98 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,220,781 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Houston ($9,417,475). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Memorial Assistance Ministries have?
- IRS filings report 98 organizations giving $38,220,781 in grants to Memorial Assistance Ministries, 60 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Memorial Assistance Ministries?
- United Way of Greater Houston is the largest funder on record, with $9,417,475 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Memorial Assistance Ministries 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 98 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