Manhattan Emergency Shelter Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 480983686
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Manhattan, KS, USA
- Phone
- 7855373113
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Homeless Shelters
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $788,967
- Expenses
- $900,800
- Assets
- $1,616,972
- Liabilities
- $26,362
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARC KENT (PRESIDENT)
- EMILY DIXON (VICE PRESIDENT)
- EMILY WAGNER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- EMILY WAGNER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $112,447 total reported compensation
- EMILY HERBIG (GRANTS & FINANCE OFFICER): $47,985 total reported compensation
- DENE KESTER (GRANTS & FINANCE OFFICER): $20,328 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Manhattan emergency shelter, inc. Believes that all people are valuable members of the human family, and when treated with respect and dignity, they are more likely to respond positively toward themselves and the community. It is with this spirit that manhattan emergency shelter, inc. Promotes self-sufficiency and community integration by providing a safe and nurturing transitional shelter environment, supportive housing programs, and housing stabilization services for the homeless of manhattan. Manhattan emergency shelter, inc. Provides three main programs to the community - emergency shelter, supportive housing, and homelessness prevention.
What it reported doing in 2025
Mesi provided case management and homeless services to 452 individuals in 2025 through emergency shelter and homeless rental assistance.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 88.9%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $30.02 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 65; 65th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -14.2%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.8; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.1%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 88.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $801K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $112K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.