St. Vincent De Paul of Baltimore

What it reported doing in 2024

Homelessness & supportive housing servicesminimizing the length of time individuals and families experience homelessness is key to avoiding long-term, negative effects on both adults and children. For this reason, we make re-housing the central focus of all of our services for persons experiencing homelessness. For those who have experienced a crisis but are capable of sustaining housing, we employ best practices that involve short-term interventions including brief shelter stays, rapid re-housing, and homelessness prevention and shelter diversion services. For those who, due to disabilities or other circumstances, need more intensive and longer-term support to remain stably housed, we offer permanent supportive housing services. St. Vincent de paul of baltimore operates the following homeless services programs: sarah's hope family sheltersarah's hope is a 150-bed comprehensive, family shelter that provides 24 hour services for families experiencing homelessness in baltimore city. Sarah's hope offers emergency shelter and family-centered support services that provide immediate stabilization and help families quickly regain permanent housing, improve their economic health, and achieve self-sufficiency. Services at sarah's hope include intensive case management and service linkage, employment services and job placement, health screenings, on-site early head start, school referral, support and advocacy, and child and youth activities. Sarah's hope serves over 130 families each year.hannah more family shelterhannah more is an 85-bed comprehensive family shelter that provides 24 hour services for homeless families in baltimore county. Hannah more offers emergency shelter and family-centered support services that provide immediate stabilization and help families quickly regain permanent housing, improve their economic health, and achieve self-sufficiency. Services at sarah's hope include intensive case management and service linkage, employment services and job placement, health screenings, early childhood education and school referral, support and advocacy, and child and youth activities. Hannah more serves over 80 families each year.interim house family shelter interim house transitional family shelter with 32 beds in baltimore county serving 15 families per year. Interim house helps families prepare for living independently by providing intensive case management and supportive services, including helping families increase income and resources through access to mainstream benefits and employment. Beans & breadbeans & bread is a day resource center where persons experiencing hunger and homelessness can access low barrier services such as meals and, through effective client engagement strategies, are assisted with services that achieve positive outcomes in four core areas: housing, employment, substance abuse/mental health, and health care. Beans and bread serves more than 300 individuals each day.home connectionshome connections is a permanent supportive housing program that serves single adults and families with disabilities who have experienced long term, chronic homelessness. Home connections, founded in 2006, was one of the first programs in baltimore to adopt the "housing first" best practice approach, with is based on a philosophy that an individual's first and primary need is to obtain stable housing, and other issues that contribute to their homelessness can and should be addressed once housing is obtained. Home connections serves138 households at a time.front door, baltimore city front door is a rapid rehousing program that quickly moves families and individuals experiencing homelessness into market-rate rental units. Staff provides rental assistance, housing coordination services, flexible client assistance, workforce development services, and intensive case management to help households obtain and maintain housing. Front door, baltimore city provides services to 120 households annually. Front door, baltimore county front

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 87.7%; rating input score 88
• Program expense ratio: 86.9%; rating input score 87
• Fundraising efficiency: $59.64 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Pass
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• 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: 9 of 9 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: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 0.3%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.78; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.22; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 5.4%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings