Walla Walla Alliance for the Homeless

What it reported doing in 2024

Walla Walla Sleep Center - Low Barrier Sleep Center: In collaboration with the City of Walla Walla, the Alliance offers a low-barrier Sleep Center for adults experiencing homelessness. The Sleep Center consists of 38 hard-sided shelters for individuals or couples, an overflow room for single men, indoor toilets and showers, caseworker and staff offices, a climate-controlled gathering room for meetings and where meals donated by the community are served. We also manage a transitional shelter program with 10 units that include heat, AC, and electricity. There are many things that most of us take for granted that are simply not available to those who are homeless. The Alliance worked to provide many of those items to residents during 2024: Toiletries: We provide soap, shampoo, conditioner, toothbrushes, toothpaste, razors, hygiene products, sunscreen, over the counter pain relievers, first aid supplies, and like items free of charge. Showers: We provide showers seven days per week through a resident led program. This allows our residents to engage with the community they are living in and allows for skills development at the same time. An address: If you are homeless, how can you receive mail or manage official communication or even fill out the most basic application forms when you don't have an address? This is an issue faced daily by those experiencing homelessness. The Walla Walla Alliance for the Homeless is pleased to provide a mailing address to all residents, as well as access to private boxes, free of charge, for homeless Walla Walla citizens that are engaged with our Peer Support services. During 2024 the Sleep Center provided 19,222 nights of safe sleep to 153 unique individuals. Our Sleep Center staff consisted of six full-time and one part-time employees and more than 7000 hours of volunteer time.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 66.1%; rating input score 66
• Program expense ratio: 76.8%; rating input score 77
• Fundraising efficiency: $15.07 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 14.3%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.81; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 20.2% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 20.9% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 15.7% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings