Our House of the Way
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 843014339
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Saint Joseph, MI, USA
- Phone
- 2692811784
- Rating
- 46
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Philanthropy, Charity, Voluntarism Promotion
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $13,717
- Expenses
- $15,067
- Assets
- $12,532
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARISTELA DE FW DOS SANTOS GODINHO (PRESIDENT)
- Versha Singh (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- MARISTELA DE FW DOS SANTOS GODINHO (PRESIDENT)
- MAYKE MUKUNO (TREASURER)
- Versha Singh (Vice President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our objective is to improve the community through identification of individuals and families in need and provide material and spiritual help. We promote growth and support while assisting families in need of love and to awaken the need for mutual assistance among us all.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Auta de Souza Fraternal Food and Clothes aims to take the sublimity of the teachings of Jesus, through spiritual teachings, to the visited homes, in the form of a word of confort and good spirit, a teaching or loving vibrations, through messages, as well as raising donations for families that lack food, clothing, and goods. Volunteers visit home door to door in Saint Joseph and Benton Harbor areas with the objective of disseminating the sprit teachings through the diffusion of messages and giving people who desire to practice charity by donating food and clothing to be distributed to needy families. The food and clothing collected is brought to our care center, prepared by volunteers, and then served/given to the the needy. Part of the donations are also organized into kits and monthly distributed to families.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 64% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 12
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 11.8%; rating input score 12
- Program expense ratio: 10.7%; rating input score 11
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.8%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.83; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.3% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 36% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 11.8% of revenue deployed · 10.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 12/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.