Veterans Housing Solutions Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 833190697
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Strongsville, OH, USA
- Phone
- 2162805824
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $556,685
- Expenses
- $510,024
- Assets
- $247,893
- Liabilities
- $43,064
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RUSSELL SCOT RHODA (CEO)
People named in this filing
- RUSSELL SCOT RHODA (CEO)
- CARRIE TILLEY (CHAIRPERSON)
- CATHYT THOMAS (VICE CHAIRPERSON)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Assist Veterans and Veterans Organizations obtain grant funding through private foundations and government agencies.Create housing solutions for disabled and aging Veterans, allowing them to continue living independently in their own home. Assist our Veterans Widows with home repairs and maintenance.
What it reported doing in 2025
AGING IN PLACE This program assists aging veteran who are unable or cannot afford the improvements, modifications, and renovation necessary for them to remain in their homes. Ride with Valor places ADA grab bars throughout the home and makes the bathroom completely ADA accessable. The bathtub often is replaced with a walk-in shower, custom tile, ADA toilet, and vanity walls patched and repainted light fixtures, towel bars, and new flooring installed. This program helps our aging and disabled Veterans as well as their widows to regain their independence. These modifications may be the difference which keeps them in their own home and out of nursing facilities. VOLUNTEER INVOLVEMENT 362 volunteers worked approximately 3,212 Total Hours for an IN-KIND DONATION value of 96,211 for year 2024.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 84% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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 some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 66
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.6%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 76.8%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $34.22 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 18th 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: 62.5%; rating input score 62; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.4%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.49; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22.8% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 25.9% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 25.4% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.6% of revenue deployed · 76.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 8 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $392K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 24 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.