Area Churches Together Serving
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 570826271
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Aiken, SC, USA
- Phone
- 8036493800
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,198,280
- Expenses
- $920,528
- Assets
- $1,678,308
- Liabilities
- $12,411
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STEPHANIE LORD (Vice President)
- PASTOR MATT STEELMAN (President)
Highest reported compensation
- SUZANNE JACKSON (Executive Dir.): $95,433 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Acts mission is to partner with churches, organizations and individuals to provide assistance to our neighbors in need. The organization serves households with emergency assistance in aiken county, sc. Services include food, clothing, utility assistance, medical assistance, transportation, rent assistance, furniture and housewares.
What it reported doing in 2024
Acts operates three food programs. The food pantry is open five days a week to help clients who are food insecure. The senior food program operates the third saturday of every month and serves approximately 348 qualified seniors with a weeks worth of supplemental food (food for 21 meals per week). Many seniors are living on less than $800 a month and may struggle to meet food, medical and housing expenses. The monthly community food distributions are held in rural, underserved areas of aiken county in order to meet the needs of individuals and families who have limited access to services and little to no transportation. The monthly food distributions occur in ridge spring, oakwood-windsor, new ellenton, wagener, perry and salley. All food program participants meet income eligibility guidelines and receive a weeks worth of food based on family size. Acts serves approximately 1,900 - 2,000 individuals with food assistance each month. Acts clients who need clothing receive clothing vouchers to be used in the acts resale stores monday through friday and within two weeks of receiving the voucher. Our program guidelines state that clothing vouchers can be provided four times a year, typically during change in season. In 2024, 11,415 households (representing 23,310 individuals) received a week's worth of supplemental food, accounting for 489,510 meals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 93% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 59% for direct work, and 41% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.6%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 89.6%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $20.18 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 23.2%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.82; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.4%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.2% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 92.6% of revenue deployed · 89.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $825K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $95K · 19 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 36/100.