Family Promise of the Palouse Inc

What it reported doing in 2025

Shelter Program Rotational model: Using a rotational shelter model, we provide homeless children, and their parents shelter for, generally, up to 90 days. While a family is in shelter, they are offered services that help guide them to stability in long term housing. Services include intense case management, financial literacy, parenting education and life skills education. Case-Management includes action planning, goal setting, housing and employment searches; these are broken down into manageable weekly activities. Family Promise operates with a broad array of community support and has a unique model that accesses 30 congregations in our community to provide the food and shelter services for families we are serving. Each week a pair of Congregations work together to provide shelter, meals and various support activities for our families. An important outcome of (FPP) is to provide our families with the support they need to have long term stability with education, parenting, housing, finances, and life skills so that families no longer live in poverty. While a family is in shelter with FPP they are required to take part in our intense case-management and have access to Parenting Education, Life Skills Education and Financial Literacy education. The main goal being that they will find long term employment, long term housing and continued success with life stability. This past year, we hosted 19 families in the rotational shelter program, including 25 adults and 45 children. Program Expansion-Interim Housing began in 2025. There are many barriers to finding housing in our area for our sheltered families. However, there are many other barriers that hinder families enrolled in our Rotational Shelter Program from leaving our program with stability and security. Some of the greatest barriers are accessibility to childcare, lack of employment opportunities, and inexperience with life skills such as cooking, cleaning, and budgeting. To assist families in overcoming these barriers, in 2025 we expanded our shelter program to include four on-site units as an Interim housing shelter model. Interim Housing allows select families from our Rotational Shelter Program (RSP) to exit the rotational model and stay at the Family Promise Day Center overnight while continuing in depth case management that focuses on budgeting and life skills such as cooking, cleaning, budgeting, and time management. The Interim Housing Program has given the opportunity to further serve families in our area and increase their overall success at achieving long-term sustainability and success. Rooms at our day center will be used to shelter families for an additional 3-6 months, or as needed. These are occupied by Interim Housing Program participants, meeting eligibility requirements, maintaining current program progress and sign and following a program agreement. We provided this program to 4 families, including 5 adults and 10 children. Another program offered Keeping the Promise stabilization services. This program assists graduated families in continuing in their progress to maintain the stability they have attained. Monthly or weekly case management meetings are scheduled. Participants are offered to continue in the courses and programs they were utilizing while in our Shelter Program. We assist families in maintaining their progress and allow for continued growth. Financial incentives are given to families who continue to meet and exceed goals. These incentives include onetime bill payment, grocery card, gas cards, City of Moscow/Pullman pool passes, etc. At least 15 families participated in this program.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 35%; rating input score 35
• Program expense ratio: 58.9%; rating input score 59
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
  • 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: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 42.4%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.45; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 10.5%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 17.9% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 20.5% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings