Virginia · Nonprofit
Roanoke Area Ministries
Roanoke Area Ministries (Virginia) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,141,653 to it, the largest being THE ARHANT SOCIAL FOUNDATION INC ($770,943). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Roanoke Area Ministries does
Mission
To serve the indigent.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The RAM effort is an ecumenical and cooperative one. RAM receives funds, clothing, and food from the surrounding localities, churches, individuals, civic and religious groups, and foundations and distributes the funds and other donations to needy people who have been referred to the emergency outreach centers by welfare departments, other social agencies, ministries, schools, and police.
$758,420 spent100% of program spendingIn 1987, RAM house was established as a comprehensive day shelter/soup kitchen designated to provide shelter and a noon-day meal for homeless men, women, and children.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $758,420.
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.
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 $746k to $2.4M (+217%).
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 2% · 2020 1% · 2021 8% · 2022 2% · 2023 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Melissa Woodson
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $39k → $205k.
8 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 Roanoke Area Ministries’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
Roanoke Area Ministries has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 66% · 2019 50% · 2020 25% · 2021 26% · 2022 25% · 2023 24% — 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
57% of Roanoke Area Ministries's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
82% of Roanoke Area Ministries's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $485k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Organizations like Roanoke Area 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Roanoke Area 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 Roanoke Area Ministries?
- Roanoke Area Ministries (Virginia) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,141,653 to it, the largest being THE ARHANT SOCIAL FOUNDATION INC ($770,943). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Roanoke Area Ministries have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $2,141,653 in grants to Roanoke Area Ministries, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Roanoke Area Ministries?
- THE ARHANT SOCIAL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $770,943 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Roanoke Area Ministries find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 31 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