Dave's House Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
270533943
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2011
Location
Orlando, FL, USA
Phone
4074571282
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,342,578
Expenses
$449,821
Assets
$2,007,137
Liabilities
$78,052

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

14 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ELLEN O'CONNOR (CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • ELLEN O'CONNOR (CEO): $124,838 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To date, dave's house's focus is on permanent supportive housing solutions, including home acquisition, fundraising, community partnerships, and resident service program development including: working with community partners, other non-profits, and behavioral health care providers, "dave's house 360 degrees" provides resident development programs to enhance resident services. These free programs focus on residents' personal and professional betterment and life-long wellness. Resident development programs provide meaningful growth opportunitiies for residents, emphasizing skills development, social interaction, collaboration on group projects, goal setting, and increased self- confidence. Dave's house has acquired land and is actively planning to expand its housing inventory with a permanent supportive multi-unit housing community.

What it reported doing in 2025

Dave's house is dedicated to expanding permanent supportive housing opportunities for adults living with serious mental illness and other disabilities, fostering stability, independence, and lasting recovery. During the year, the organization continued development of dave's house at celery community in seminole county, an innovative permanent supportive housing neighborhood that will provide affordable housing integrated with recovery-oriented support services. Significant progress included advancing project planning, engineering, permitting, financing, strategic partnerships, and site preparation necessary to move the project toward construction. In addition to housing development, dave's house strengthened partnerships with healthcare providers, behavioral health organizations, housing professionals, philanthropic partners, and local governments to expand access to permanent supportive housing and advance long-term solutions to homelessness among adults living with serious mental illness.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

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 reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 44
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 75
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 23.9%; rating input score 24
  • Program expense ratio: 70.7%; rating input score 71
  • Fundraising efficiency: $25.56 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • 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: 66.5%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.46; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 27.8%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 19.1% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 23.9% of revenue deployed · 70.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $318K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $125K · 14 people listed
  • Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 24/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.