Adventist Community Services North
Columbia, MD · EIN 20-3519054. Reported 119 grants totalling $3,011,518 to 46 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 46 distinct organizations, with 10% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 59% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 56% median for grantmaking charities -- lower than the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $20,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $30,000; the smallest was $5,400 and the largest $130,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Central Conference | Nashville, TN | $316,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| South Atlantic Conference of Seventh Day Adventist | Decatur, GA | $224,164 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| Chesapeake Conference | Columbia, MD | $212,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Guam-Micronesia Mission | Agana Heights, Guam | $190,000 | 6 | 3 | 2024 |
| Georgia-Cumberland Conference | Calhoun, GA | $182,435 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Arkansas-Louisiana Conference | Shreveport, LA | $119,500 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| Northeastern Conference of Seventh Day Adventists | Jamaica, NY | $110,020 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Oregon Conference of Seventh Day Adventists | Gladstone, OR | $99,850 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Texas Conference of Seventh Day Adventists | Alvarado, TX | $91,000 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Allegheny East Conference | Boyertown, PA | $90,550 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Southern California Conference of Seventh Day Adventists | Glendale, CA | $86,600 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Kansas-Nebraska Conference | Topeka, KS | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Mountain View Conference | Parkersburg, WV | $74,446 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| General Conference of Seventh Day Adventist | Mount Dora, FL | $72,125 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Rocky Mountain Conference | Denver, CO | $65,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Michigan Conference | Lansing, MI | $64,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Greater New York Conference | Manhasset, NY | $62,903 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Southwestern Union Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists | Burleson, TX | $60,000 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Southeastern California Conference | Riverside, CA | $59,250 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Central States Conference | Kansas City, KS | $55,707 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mid-America Union Conference | Lincoln, NE | $50,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Carolina Conference | Charlotte, NC | $48,850 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Potomac Conference Corporation of Seventh Day Adventists | Verona, VA | $48,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Upper Columbia Mission Society of Sda | Spokane, WA | $46,750 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Florida Conference | Altamonte Sp, FL | $44,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Nevada Utah Conference of Seventh- Day Adventists | Reno, NV | $42,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Pacific Union Conference | Westlake Village, CA | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| New Jersey Conference | Lawrenceville, NJ | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Atlantic Union Conference Assoc of Seventh-Day Adventists | Lancaster, MA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Columbia Union Conference | Columbia, MD | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Northern California Conference | Pleasant Hill, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ohio Conference | Mount Vernon, OH | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Southwest Region Conference of | Dallas, TX | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Gulf States Conference Association of Seventh-Day Adventists | Montgomery, AL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Idaho Conference of Seventh-Day Adventist Inc | Boise, ID | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Illinois Conference | Willowbrook, IL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Oklahoma Conference | Oklahoma City, OK | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Allegheny West Conference | Columbus, OH | $17,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Southern New England Conf | South Lancaster, MA | $16,716 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kentucky-Tennessee Conference | Goodlettsville, TN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lake Region Conf of Seventh Day Adventist Church | Mokena, IL | $14,052 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Western Wash Corporation of Seventh Day Adventists | Federal Way, WA | $13,600 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Iowa-Missouri Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists Office of T | Wdm, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lake Region Conf of Sda | Mokena, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| N Y Conference of Seventh Day Adventist | Syracuse, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Northern New England Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists Inc | Westbrook, ME | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
34 of 46 (74%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- South Central Conference
EXPANSION AND UPGRADES, WATER CRISIS - Chesapeake Conference
AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM, COVID FOOD RELIEF PROGRAM, REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT - North Pacific Union Conference
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT, YOUTH MENTORHIP PROGRAM - South Atlantic Conference
FOOD PANTRY UPGRADES, HARDWOOD FLOOR/ STORAGE - Georgia-Cumberland Conference
UPGRADES AND RENOVATIONS, WALK-IN FREEZER, APPALACHIA MINISTRY - Oregon Conference
ACS CENTER REPAIRS, WELDING EQUIPMENT/RENOVATIONS, SEWING MACHINES/REFRIGERATOR/FREEZER, COMMUNITY CENTER EFFORTS
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 34 | $962,150 | $20,000 |
| 2022 | 33 | $937,351 | $20,000 |
| 2023 | 23 | $658,085 | $15,000 |
| 2024 | 29 | $453,932 | $15,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
14% of its giving went to organizations in Georgia. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $20,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Georgia.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Adventist Community Services North's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 9705 Patuxent Woods Drive, Columbia, MD, 21046.
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