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Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 431465268
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023
- Location
- Kansas City, MO, USA
- Phone
- 8165318340
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,401,750
- Expenses
- $10,390,819
- Assets
- $2,364,564
- Liabilities
- $765,711
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BLAINE PROCTOR (CEO former)
- PATRICK MCLAUGHLIN (CEO)
- STEVEN BAUGH (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- REBECCA HUNKINS (CFO former): $112,895 total reported compensation
- BLAINE PROCTOR (CEO former): $90,726 total reported compensation
- PATRICK MCLAUGHLIN (CEO): $8,885 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We provide comprehensive housing solutions to empower socially and medically disadvantaged people to improve their health and lead stable lives with personal dignity.
What it reported doing in 2023
We provide supporive housing, utility assistance, and wrap around services to persons living with HIV/AIDS, mental health, substance abuse and other disabilities. Housing and related services are provided annually to approximately 1700 people living in poverty.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 83% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 83% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.9%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 83%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $42.52 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.1%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.32; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.9% of revenue deployed · 83% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $8.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $113K · 23 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $766K reported
- Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2009 to 2023
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 7 filed related-organization links
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.