Front Porch Housing
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 881353078
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Greenville, SC, USA
- Phone
- 8642830865
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Low-Income & Subsidized Rental Housing
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,684,015
- Expenses
- $4,194,259
- Assets
- $16,871,866
- Liabilities
- $17,631,517
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- LEE ANNE CAVIN (BOARD CHAIR)
- WILLIAM G WHITE (TREASURER)
- JOSEPH CLAREY (SECRETARY, VICE CHAIR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Front porch housing's mission is to provide safe, affordable housing and supportive services economically and socially, within the context of the church community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Front porch, housing operates a multi-year supportive housing program providing safe, affordable housing and supportive services for individuals and families experiencing housing instability and crisis. Services include case management, financial literacy, workforce development, transportation assistance, childcare, youth programming, and community support designed to promote long-term stability, employment, continued recovery, and financial independence. Through housing and supportive services provided within the context of intentional community, the organization served hundreds of adults and children during the year and helped residents build pathways toward permanent stability and self-sufficiency.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 69% 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.
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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.5%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 88.8%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $42.78 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 76; 76th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 10.5%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.02; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.05; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.3% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 29% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.5% of revenue deployed · 88.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.