Shoes for the Homeless Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453714066
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2012
- Location
- Culver City, CA, USA
- Phone
- 2133094084
- Rating
- 93
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Emergency Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $125,921
- Expenses
- $157,001
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- IRA DIAMOND (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ROBERTA FLUSSER (BOARD MEMBER)
- MICHAEL HUDSON (BOARD MEMBER)
- ALBERT VERA (BOARD MEMBER)
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 mission is to provide shoes, and accessories, to the homeless and to those in need, free of charge, in our local communities. These shoes are provided to local organizations that directly serve and distribute the shoes to the homeless and those in need such as rescue missions and women shelters.
What it reported doing in 2025
Donations of shoes and socks to the homeless directly and indirect contributions by way of donations to other non-profits providing support to the homeless in the communities served.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 81% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Sustainability: 10
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 98.3%; rating input score 98
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -24.7%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 98.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $154K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.