Pajaro Valley Shelter Services
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 941393418
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Watsonville, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8317285649
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Violence Shelters
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,743,439
- Expenses
- $1,629,442
- Assets
- $5,434,130
- Liabilities
- $553,538
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAMES SHEEHY (Vice President)
- IAN MCGREGOR (President)
Highest reported compensation
- MIKE JOHNSON (Executive Dir.): $121,101 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Pajaro Valley Shelter Services provides families with a path toward self-sufficient futures through short-and longer-term housing and supportive services.
What it reported doing in 2024
Family emergency shelter:40 families, comprised of 46 adults and 66 children experiencing 40 families, experiencing homelessness or at imminent risk of homelessness in southern santa cruz and northern monterey counties access up to six months of shelter and supportive services at pvss's family emergency shelter, located in downtown watsonville, ca. The shelter is a 5-room/30-bed facility. The program is structured, supportive and drug and alcohol free. The ultimate goal of the shelter program is to successfully exit all participating families into transitional or permanent housing, with the skills, resources and support they need to maintain their employment and housing, plan for their futures, pursue happiness and thrive under a roof of their own. Parents participate in case management meetings at least once a week and set individualized goals for their family. Goals typically include those related to self-care & emotional stability, mental health and substance abuse, employment and education, parenting skills, personal financial management/budgeting/credit repair, savings for move in and housing costs. The family emergency shelter provides annually: 1,500 hours of case management; 3,300 hours of program management and shelter coordination; 24 hour/yr of financial literacy training; 24 hours/yr of triple p parenting classes; 30 hours/yr of aces and family resilience-building workshops; 24 hours/yr of nutrition education classes; 27,000 meals to children and adults; and unlimited information and referrals to community resources.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 65% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.1%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 70.1%; rating input score 70
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.48 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 11; 11th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.5%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.33; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.4%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.1% of revenue deployed · 70.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $121K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 11/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 45/100.