Encompass Housing
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 475066773
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Santa Ana, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7146945721
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,601,617
- Expenses
- $7,007,669
- Assets
- $5,906,083
- Liabilities
- $5,798,283
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DEBY WOLFORD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- RITA DANIELS (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DEBY WOLFORD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $149,962 total reported compensation
- KRISTIN JEFFERSON (DIRECTOR OF FINANCE): $65,817 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Encompass housing's mission is to build communities that foster a sense of belonging while creating safety nets that provide support and stability. Our goal is to serve all who experiencing a housing crisis, including homelessness and housing insecurity, providing support, tools, and resources for them to move forward and achieve safety and stability. Our approach is to create a comprehensive continuum of housing services and resources that attends to the unique needs of everyu situation, from chronically homeless seniors to families experiencing homelessness. We are actively developing transitional and permanent housing projects while preparing to rapidly scale our services to meet the growing needs in our community.
What it reported doing in 2024
Recuperative care, also referred to as medical respite care, is short-term residential care for individuals being discharged from the hospital without a safe place to continue healing and whose health conditions would be exacerbated by an unstable living environment. Recuperative care facilitates a smooth transition from hospital care to stable housing by providing a supportive environment where individuals can continue their recovery and receive post-discharge treatment (i.e. Medication management, therapy, etc.) while obtaining access to primary care, behavioral health services, case management and other supportive social services, such as transportation, food, and housing.housing navigation and tenancy services has three primary objectives: develop housing opportunities for people experiencing homlessness, support people in the process of accessing and moving into permanent housing and provide supportive services to promote long-term tennancy. Housing navigation specialists provide assistance with obtaining housing. Housing navigation services include assistance with searching for housing or completing housing applications as well as developing an individual housing support plan. As part of the housing navigation service, clients receive assistance with housing security deposits, utilities set-up fees, first and last month's rent and first month of utilities. Members can also receive funding for medically necessary items like air conditioners, heaters, and hospital beds to ensure the new home is safe for move-in. Once housed, housing tenancy and retention specialists focus on assistance maintaining stable tenancy and may include interventions for behaviors that may jeopardize housing, such as late rental payment and services, to develop financial literacy skills.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 96% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 87% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 73
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.2%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 81.6%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $21.55 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 61; 61st 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 77.8%; rating input score 78; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.8%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.84; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.98; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.1%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 128.9% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 150.1% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 75.9% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75.2% of revenue deployed · 81.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 9 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $5.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $150K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.