Council for the Homeless
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 912001828
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Vancouver, WA, USA
- Phone
- 3609939561
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Homeless Shelters
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,569,630
- Expenses
- $8,685,479
- Assets
- $22,302,307
- Liabilities
- $7,013,917
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN KENDRICK (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- SESANY FENNIE-JONES (EXECUTIVE DI): $138,189 total reported compensation
- SUNNY WONDER (CHIED OPERAT): $117,606 total reported compensation
- ELIZABETH OLIVER (INTERIM CFO): $101,861 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The council for the homeless is a non-profit organization that provides community leadership, compelling advocacy and practical solutions to prevent and end homelessness in clark county, wa.
What it reported doing in 2024
Other : other program expenses include winter hospitality overflow shelter (who), programs permanent housing, coordinated outreach, keys to th efuture, and equity and planning. Including in these programs are: 1. Rent assistance are arrears and future payments to households who are unstable in their home. 2. Motel vouchers to provide emergency shelter via nights in a motel to people experiencing homelessness. This includes providing motel nights during severe weather, in partnership with law inforcement and for people existing in the hospital 3. Day 1 families fund 4.winter hospitality overflow shelter : provides safe shelter during winter month to families and individuals experiencing homelessness. Who guests are offered a warm place to sleep, a hot shower, a meal and the welcome and warmth of a community working to address the most basic of human needs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 77% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 54.9%; rating input score 55
- Program expense ratio: 64%; rating input score 64
- Fundraising efficiency: $28.72 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.8%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.57; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.31; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.1%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.5% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.8% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 54.9% of revenue deployed · 64% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $5.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $138K · 14 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $312K reported
- Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.