Mat-su Youth Housing

What it reported doing in 2024

Below are some of my house's achievements as of fye 12/31/2024: enrolled 146 new clients and served a total of 312 unique individuals with case management, and wrap-around services including food, clothing, showers and laundry. This is all done with a staff of one full-time and one part- time case manager, one full-time navigator and two support staff that includes a housing case manager who coordinates vouchers and helps with moves to transitional housing. We have served a total of 1,224 youth since inception. We ended the year with 32 beds of transitional client housing. Specialized house designations provide a safe place for clients who identify as lgbtq+, parents with children, survivors of domestic violence and those who report having been trafficked. My house is preparing to open the first of its kind in Alaska 3.1 residential facility for youth aged 18-25 who experience co-occurring disorders. This program will open its doors january 2025 and will have a 9 -bed capacity. This is the direct result of 63% of our enrollments this year having co-occurring disorders. We provided 1,511 meals through our monday- friday supper club, available to youth within the 14-25 age range. Myhouse's legacy for-profit businesses; gathering grounds caf and steamdriven boutique provided job training to 34clients. 21 clients graduated the program with 80% maintaining employment for three months or longer after completion. 10 clients received their ged or high school diploma. 40% of clients coming in the door have no high school completion or ged. In 2024 25% of our new enrollments reported suicidal thoughts, attempts, ideation. My house has responded to this growing concern by providing clinical services on site to address this issue. Unfortunately, one client died from suicide. Narcan kits, which prevent opiate overdoses and death, are distributed by my house and two of our staff members are certified to provide training in their use. Our staff distributed 215 kits in 2024. The alliance to stop human trafficking in Alaska (ashta) which is based at myhouse conducted 32awareness & training presentations across Alaska, and the ashta coordinator is active as vice chair of the governor's council on human and sex trafficking. Continued to release content for the my house podcast network: - "my voice" where clients tell their stories. - "diagnonsense" which focuses on mental health & suicide prevention. - "the my house podcast", where our ceo hosts community members, partners, and donors to discuss our work with homelessness, recovery & solutions. Began a limited podcast based on the "12 steps" entitled "exit 12" where staff and clients discuss their experience in recovery with the 12-step program. We also created multiple videos, that featured work done at my house for our youtube channel. This included new job-training videos for participants in our program, as well as multiple videos for grant progress and coverage of my house events. Many of these videos were shorts that promoted recovery or the my house job-training programs. We also had our first intern graduate from our communications internship, where they learned av editing and production, along with social media management. All of this is possible because my house provides services to, and advocates for, youth experiencing homelessness and youth at-risk of becoming homeless, so they can become self-sufficient and contributing members of their community.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 48.4%; rating input score 48
• Program expense ratio: 68.5%; rating input score 68
• Fundraising efficiency: $767.28 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 97; 97th 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: 62.5%; rating input score 62; 10th 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: 29.7%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.14; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 27%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 16.5% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 21% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 33.4% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings