Homeless and Travelers Aid Society of the Capital District Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 141482188
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Albany, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5184632124
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Homeless Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,897,068
- Expenses
- $3,835,681
- Assets
- $2,288,936
- Liabilities
- $271,284
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ADAM COOPER (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
- TAWANA DAVIS (PRESIDENT)
- JOE VOLPE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ELIZABETH M HITT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- ELIZABETH M HITT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $153,433 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
See schedule ohatas is a not-for-profit human services agency whose focus is assisting families and individuals that are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. The hatas mission is to work collaboratively with the community at large to serve as a resource for change in an effort to end homelessness, preserve the dignity of all persons, and promote self-sufficiency.
What it reported doing in 2025
Homeless emergency services - availabe 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to make sure that everyone who comes to hatas for help will have a safe place to sleep that night:24-hour homeless emergency services program - central intake, assessment, and referral point for homeless albany county residents needing shelter.after-hours heating emergency assistance program - responds to after-hours fuel and heating assistance requests made by low-income albany county residents.supportive housing - provides supported housing to homeless individuals and families.homelessness rapid re-housing - combines intensive case management with a rental subsidy to homeless single adults with multiple barriers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 77% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.1%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 92.5%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: $81.85 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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: 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: 1.6%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.6; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.1% of revenue deployed · 92.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $3.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $153K · 12 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 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.
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.