Room at the Inn
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800524559
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2019, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- Marquette, MI, USA
- Phone
- 9062279171
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Homeless Shelters
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $522,363
- Expenses
- $515,780
- Assets
- $635,318
- Liabilities
- $207,180
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Stephen Krygier (Secretary Former Interim Executive Director)
- Chelsie Wilkinson (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Chelsie Wilkinson (Executive Director): $70,576 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Room at the Inns mission is to offer comprehensive support including emergency shelter food and case management services to families and individuals experiencing homelessness or a housing crisis in the Upper Peninsula. Our flagship facility know as the Warming Center is located at 447 W Washington St. in Marquette MI. The Warming Center provides free meals laundry and shower service phone mail service and most importantly a sense of community for our most vulnerable neighbors. Various community agency representatives are available on-site to meet with guests regarding employment housing health care or any other matter that helps with regaining independence and housing stabilty. Room at the Inn opened a family shelter in Ishpeming in November 2024 ran an emergency motel voucher program and provided street outreach case management services for unsheltered individuals and families in Alger and Marquette counties.
What it reported doing in 2024
Room at the Inns Warming Center operates as a day shelter open to any individual experiencing a housing crisis in Marquette County and surrounding areas. In addition to our overnight emergency shelter with 46 beds the Warming Center provides access to essential daytime services including two hot meals per day showers laundry Wi-Fi hygiene supplies and case management support. It also serves as a centralized location for collaborative on-site services such as mental health counseling Medicaid enrollment transportation coordination and access to vital documents through partner agencies. In 2024 the Warming Center served around 50 unsheltered individuals daily and functions as the central hub for street outreach and community referrals.
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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.1%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 89.1%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: 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: 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: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.3%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.23; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.33; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.7%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.9% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.1% of revenue deployed · 89.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $460K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $71K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 42 of 42 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.