DignityMoves
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 871111468
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7076529708
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Temporary Housing
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $61,805,329
- Expenses
- $64,263,392
- Assets
- $41,852,229
- Liabilities
- $23,746,881
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ELIZABETH FUNK (FOUNDER, CEO, & DIRECTOR)
- JEFF SPAHR (VICE PRESIDENT, CONSTRUCTION)
Highest reported compensation
- JOANNE PRICE (CHIEF REAL ESTATE OFFICER): $235,043 total reported compensation
- JEFF SPAHR (VICE PRESIDENT, CONSTRUCTION): $202,813 total reported compensation
- FREYA ESTRELLER (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $200,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
A Future Without Street Homelessness
What it reported doing in 2024
Dignitymoves provides innovative solutions to end unsheltered homelessness with the primary focus of expanding the availability of "interim supportive housing" at scale with rapid and cost-effective approaches. In each community the organization partners with exceptional services agencies who provide mental and behavioral healthcare, employment and housing specialists, and a myriad of other critical resources.the three largest "interim supportive housing" projects consist of the following:- hope village - 94 units interim supportive housing including 10 units for transitional aged youth and 30 units for recuperative care in santa maria, ca- la posada - 80 units interim supportive housing in santa barbara, ca- 33 gough - 70 units interim supportive housing in san francisco, ca
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 84% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 96.7%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: $52.64 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.65; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.57; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.5%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 62.3% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 51.5% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 49.9% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 96.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $62.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $235K · 10 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $41M reported
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.