Nela Housing and Supportive Services Corporation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
830362156
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2015
Location
Monroe, LA, USA
Phone
3185470407
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Low-Income & Subsidized Rental Housing

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$394,831
Expenses
$386,697
Assets
$13,153
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Sarah B Johnson (Executive Director)
  • Rick McPhearson (Board President and Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • Sarah B Johnson (Executive Director): $69,500 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Together we are building a community that is free of homelessness where all people feel safe and valued. Please see PART I 1. on prior page for significant activities

What it reported doing in 2025

Operate a Continuum of Care organization and system fulfilling the HUD CoC Program Interim Rule 24 CFR 579 for the 12 parishes (counties) of of Northeast Louisiana including coordinating regional planning, services, data collection and reporting including system resources and gaps, Point in Time (street and shelter count and survey), Housing Inventory of homeless housing and services, and compiling, ranking, and submitting local applications for the HUD CoC Program competition; the organization completed all required federal reporting including Point in Time, Housing Inventory Chart, and conducted ongoing review and technical asst. to programs funded through the HUD CoC competition providing over $2 million in federal funds to provide homeless services to the region. Membership includes approximately 40 organizations that are impacted by and concerned with homelessness including service providers, mainstream benefits orgs, healthcare, law enforcement, donors, governments, businesses, etc. These many community representatives meet at least quarterly to assess local needs and plan local responses; training for membership is provided several times per year during these meetings, in webinars, and onsite when possible. Regional outcomes data is tracked to manage progress ending homelessness. In 2020, the service area was 14th in the U.S. among top performing regions with high performance achieving national benchmarks of returning persons to housing.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 87% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 92% 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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 89
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 32
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 83.8%; rating input score 84
  • Program expense ratio: 85.6%; rating input score 86
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • 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: 2.1%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 18%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -4.2% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -2.3% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -23.2% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 83.8% of revenue deployed · 85.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $331K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $70K · 13 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $131K reported
  • Consistency: 38 of 39 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.