Partners for Better Housing
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 204808481
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2018, Form 990-N 2010
- Location
- Elkins, AR, USA
- Phone
- 4797553497
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Housing Development, Construction, Management
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $83,446
- Expenses
- $612,477
- Assets
- $2,780,912
- Liabilities
- $1,042,242
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Tenisha Gist (CEO)
- Julie Trivitt (President)
- Diana Dominguez (Vice President)
- Mark Cloud (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Tenisha Gist (CEO): $94,603 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
See Schedule O
What it reported doing in 2024
With the continued support from The Walton Family Foundation, Partners for Better Housing was able to accomplish key important metrics. Partners hired one key staff to increase access, education, and community engagement. Organization progress includes but not limited to reinforcing organization values (i.e. people-centered approach, innovation, empowerment, integrity, and subject-matter expert), continuing to build capacity, growing relationships with stakeholders, building partnerships and aligning with service contractors to mobilize Partners mission, completing the organizations first audit, developing an annual fundraising plan, case for support, implementing a donor management software, launching Freddie Mac CreditSmart workshops in Spanish, forming a Registered Student Organization on the UA campus, renewing Community Housing Development Organization(CHDO) status, and earning several certifications to apply for federal funding to increase affordable housing.
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. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 49.7%; rating input score 50
- Fundraising efficiency: $0.42 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 12; 12th 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: Scored; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -634%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.54; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.37; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.4%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 35.3% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -14.8% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.5% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 49.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $305K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $95K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and related organizations
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 12/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.