Be Available
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 202132633
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-PF 2019
- Location
- Geneva, IL, USA
- Phone
- 8478789685
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $29,073
- Expenses
- $24,728
- Assets
- $10,171
- Liabilities
- $5,286
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- Charles Miles (Director)
- Jane Miles (Director)
- Randolph Miles (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Be Available is organized exclusively for charitable purposes within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Its primary exempt purpose is to relieve poverty, housing instability, and human suffering by providing transitional housing, material support, and connection to services for individuals and families experiencing homelessness or housing crisis. Be Available operates from a community-based "help people, help people" model that mobilizes resources to meet basic human needs, restore stability, and build pathways out of crisis. The organization carries out its purpose through direct program delivery, partnership with established public charities serving the same charitable class, and development of technology infrastructure that connects people who need help with people who can provide it.
What it reported doing in 2025
The primary program service of Be Available in 2025 was its Affordable Housing Program at 477 Gloria Lane, Oswego, Illinois. Be Available holds the master lease on a single-family residence and operates it as transitional housing for individuals and families experiencing homelessness or housing instability. During 2025, the program served three adults and three children. Program activities include: (i) holding the master lease and paying monthly rent to the property owner; (ii) providing furnishings, household goods, and supplies for resident use; (iii) paying utilities, insurance, and maintenance costs directly; (iv) conducting regular property oversight and inspections; and (v) coordinating programming, services, and support with residents and with partner organizations. The program operates in partnership with Grundy Area PADS, an Illinois 501(c)(3) public charity (EIN 05-0616949) classified under sections 509(a)(1) and 170(b)(1)(A)(vi), which serves the same charitable class. The organizations share no common officers, directors, or substantial contributors, and the partnership is arm's length. Be Available is pursuing title transfer of the property in 2026 to eliminate the master-lease structure and dedicate the full economic margin of the program to its charitable purposes. Be Available has also initiated an application for the Illinois Affordable Housing Tax Credit to support the program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.7%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 92.5%; rating input score 93
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.9%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.52; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.7% of revenue deployed · 92.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $23K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.