Benjamin's House Emergency Shelter Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270407042
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2012, Form 990-N 2009
- Location
- Rice Lake, WI, USA
- Phone
- 7157362437
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Homeless Shelters
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $664,093
- Expenses
- $625,570
- Assets
- $1,660,126
- Liabilities
- $25,974
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN SEDLAK (PRESIDENT)
- LAUREN KENNEN (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JOHN SEDLAK (PRESIDENT)
- LAUREN KENNEN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JESSICA MULIKEN (SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Working together with others to provide safe shelter, food, support services, and an avenue of self-sufficiency for the homeless and people in need.
What it reported doing in 2024
The shelter has provided about 76,000 bed nights for 1300 (860 adults and 340 child) residents since 2011. During 2023, 9,084 bed nights were provided for 125 (91 adults and 34 child) residents. All residents were served by case managers who assisted the residents with goal setting, problem solving, and connecting with area resources in order to become self-sufficient upon completion of the 90 day program. Also, during their stay at the shelter, residents were counseled in the areas of personal care, family living, financial responsibility, job interviewing, and employment relations. Sixty-five (65) percent of shelter residents completed the program having both employment and housing.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 75% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.8%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 75.4%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.56 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 26th 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: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.8%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.65; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.8% of revenue deployed · 75.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $472K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 36/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Document-retention policy not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.