Texas · Nonprofit
PROJECT AMISTAD INC
PROJECT AMISTAD INC (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,328,028 to it, the largest being SOUTH PLAINS COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOC ($1,103,282). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $8.3M
What Project Amistad Inc does
Mission
To advocate, connect, and deliver social services to communities, ensuring a dignified and meaningful life for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Transportation: project amistad provides accessible transportation to eligible clients who have the need for affordable transportation due to various factors. Amistad currently provides transit routes on buses that are ada compliant and equipped with a lift to the general public for day-to-day transportation needs. Project amistad traveled 743,442 miles through this service. Project amistad also provides limited non-emergency medical transportation (nemt) to older adults and persons with a disability that are low income. Trips are to dialysis, pharmacies, and a variety of medical providers. Project amistad provided 1,966 trips and traveled 365,391 miles through this service. Delivery of service starts as early as 5:30 am and ends as late as 7:00 pm monday through saturday. Project amistad provides services on holidays except for three, thanksgiving, christmas, and new year's. Sunday transportation is required if the agency decides to close on the three holidays.
$3,605,291 spent$2,697,497 earned by the program44% of program spendingAging and disability resource center: the aging, disability & transportation resource center (adtrc) provides information on long-term services and support, as well as affordable, accessible, and integrated housing options. The adtrc is considered a one-stop shop, community-based center that can help to locate and provide guidance counseling to understand a comprehensive range of resources available for veterans and active duty. Staff is trained and certified to provide the following services: utility payments, locating affordable and accessible housing, enrollment into the medicare savings programs, processing tanf, snap, medicaid applications, guidance counseling, referrals for home modifications for persons with disabilities, visitation and safe exchange for families of domestic violence, mental health services, guidance on services and supports for veterans & their beneficiaries, persons with disabilities, elderly, families in distress, and financial, educational courses for individuals with intellectual developmental disability (idd), support groups for persons affected by alzheimer's and dementia related diseases, and diabetes prevention for persons at risk of a diabetes…
$1,329,131 spent$1,012,298 earned by the program16% of program spendingGuardianship, money management, and unhoused initiatives: project amistad remains one of the most important community resources for persons who have been deemed by the court system to be unable to care for their health and welfare. The guardianship team works diligently to ensure that the persons under guardianship, approximately 445, have appropriate shelter, food, clothing, medical care, and mental health treatment. The program currently serves individuals ranging from young adults to persons 101 years old. Project amistad was selected to provide homeless initiatives, which are 365/24/7. Amistad has a close association with several federal, state, city, and county entities along with community-based agencies to provide high-quality professional care. Money management services are provided to persons who are unable to manage their finances and who need a representative payee. Money management services are an important part of amistad's efforts to ease burdens for persons served. The program is funded by a grant from the community development block grant (cdbg) program through the city of el paso. Project amistad clients who have been identified as needing assistance in managing…
$3,329,100 spent$2,627,112 earned by the program40% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,263,522.
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 2021 to 2022, from $13M to $9.9M (−26%).
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 97% · 2021 85% · 2022 54% · 2023 26% · 2024 33% · 2025 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
39% of PROJECT AMISTAD INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% 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
Andrea Ramirez
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $500 → $619k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 PROJECT AMISTAD INC’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
PROJECT AMISTAD INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 PROJECT AMISTAD INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 75% · 2021 45% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% — 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
0% of PROJECT AMISTAD INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 45% 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
97% of PROJECT AMISTAD INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $56k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
PROJECT AMISTAD INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding PROJECT AMISTAD INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $919k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$919k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like PROJECT AMISTAD INC
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PROJECT AMISTAD INC?
- PROJECT AMISTAD INC (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,328,028 to it, the largest being SOUTH PLAINS COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOC ($1,103,282). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROJECT AMISTAD INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,328,028 in grants to PROJECT AMISTAD INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT AMISTAD INC?
- SOUTH PLAINS COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOC is the largest funder on record, with $1,103,282 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT AMISTAD INC 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 11 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