About Ach Child and Family Services
Protecting children and preserving families by providing trauma-informed services, foster care, adoption, kinship support, counseling, and programs that help youth and families thrive.
Focus Areas
Foster care and adoptionYouth emergency shelterResidential treatmentBehavioral health / counselingKinship navigator and kinship supportYouth transitional livingVolunteer mentor programsCrisis hotline and referrals (AIRS)
Who They Fund
nonprofit organizations / organizational entitiesservice providers preparing for scale or transition
Funding Style
organizational support (general operating)
About Ach Child and Family Services
Ach Child and Family Services gives at a scale that stands out in its recent filings: one 2025 organizational-support grant to Ach Landowner II totaled $11,009,554, followed by another 2025 organizational-support grant to Ach Landowner IV for $5,122,251. That pattern points to a funder that uses very large internal support grants alongside a broad set of readiness and operations awards to child-and-family providers. The foundation’s stated work centers on protecting children and preserving families through trauma-informed services, foster care, adoption, kinship support, counseling, youth emergency shelter, residential treatment, and transitional living. Recent grants also show support for organizations preparing for growth or transition, including Pathways Youth & Family Services, Jonathan's Place, and House of Shiloh Family Services Inc. The mix suggests a grantmaker that backs both direct service infrastructure and the organizations delivering care to children, youth, and families. Its active Kinship Navigator program further signals attention to kinship caregivers who are raising children within extended family networks.
What Ach Child and Family Services Funds
A major thread in the foundation’s giving is organizational readiness. In 2025, it awarded $150,000 to Pathways Youth & Family Services for T3C readiness activities - operations, and another $150,000 to Cental Texas Table of Grace Inc for T3C readiness activities - buildings. Similar support went to Roy Maas Youth Alternatives Inc for buildings and Buckner Children and Family Services Inc for buildings, showing a consistent interest in helping providers prepare facilities and operations for service delivery. The foundation also backs child-welfare organizations directly. It gave $150,000 to Jonathan's Place for T3C readiness activities and $150,000 to House of Shiloh Family Services Inc for T3C readiness activities - operations, indicating support for agencies serving children and families in placement, shelter, or related care settings. Kinship support is another clear area, reflected in its active Kinship Navigator program for kinship families in multiple Texas counties.
How Ach Child and Family Services Gives
The grant-size pattern is bimodal. Typical awards sit at a median of $279,164, with a lower quartile of $154,866 and an upper quartile of $2,535,369. The recent record also includes several very large organizational-support grants above $4 million, separated from a cluster of $150,000 readiness grants. The foundation’s recent grants recur across years for at least one recipient: Ach Landowner II appears in both 2024 and 2025, while Ach Landowner also appears in 2024. Funding is organizational rather than individual, and the foundation does not make program-related investments. The data also shows unsolicited applications are accepted for the Kinship Navigator program.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$27.3M
Total Assets
$68.9M
Total Revenue
$161.2M
Total Expenses
$166.4M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $155K and $2.5M, with a median of $279K.
25th Percentile
$155K
Median
$279K
75th Percentile
$2.5M
Geographic Reach
Local5 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
WAYNE CARSON
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