UNITY of Greater New Orleans
Legal name: Unity of Greater New Orleans Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 721222911
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New Orleans, LA, US
- Phone
- 504-821-4496
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Nonprofit Management
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $46,256,524
- Expenses
- $46,998,394
- Assets
- $13,249,778
- Liabilities
- $5,753,470
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARTHA KEGEL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- MARTHA KEGEL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $158,131 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
UNITY of Greater New Orleans is a nonprofit organization leading a collaborative of over 60 agencies providing housing and services to people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in Orleans and Jefferson parishes. Our mission is to coordinate community partnerships to prevent, reduce, and end homelessness.
What it reported doing in 2024
Unity leads a collaborative of about 50 nonprofit and governmental organizations providing housing and services to people currently and formerly experiencing homelessness in new orleans and jefferson parish. We secure competitive federal grants and subcontract them to nonprofit and governmental organizations, overseeing their work, training them in evidence-based and emerging best practices, and evaluating their performance. Since 2007, we have reduced homelessness by 87 percent. From january 2023 through december 2025, unity and its partners assisted over 3,000 people to overcome homelessness through the provision of housing and services. On any given night, our collaborative is providing rental assistance and supportive services to about 3500 formerly homeless people, most with severe disabilities, who were assisted out of homelessness into permanent housing in prior months, years and decades and continue to need support.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 98% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 63% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 78
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.6%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 94.1%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: $1,030.9 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 90.1%; rating input score 90; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th 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: -1.6%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.28; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.43; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.3%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 10 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 95.6% of revenue deployed · 94.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $44.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $158K · 12 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 32 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 32 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.