Winter Nights Family Shelter Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 844775540
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Pleasant Hill, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9254143883
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Temporary Housing
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $765,108
- Expenses
- $748,462
- Assets
- $387,122
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dan Swander (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Carmella Kowall (Exec Director): $72,970 total reported compensation
- Liz Haughey (Board Member): $11,400 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide shelter, resources, and support to homeless families with children and homeless individuals to help them return to stable housing, through a seasonal family shelter, a safe parking program and continued success outreach to former clients.
What it reported doing in 2024
Family shelter for homeless parents with minor children. Capacity is 8-9 families ata time. It moves every two weeks october-june between 18 faith communities in contracosta county. We work closely with each family to understand their uniquecircumstances and help them find sustainable housing. Coordinate 48 congregations and community groups to provide facilities and services for 36 weeks and over 3,000volunteers to provide evening meals, food for lunch and quick breakfasts, and evening and weekend activities. Tutors help children with homework to keep them at grade level. Trained staff provides 24-hour supervision along with van transportation to school, work, and to oasis day center. Oasis is open on weekdays for both family shelter and safe parking clients. Clients can meet with our staff of client managers to work on getting employment and housing. Oasis has showers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 60% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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
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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 89
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.8%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 77.5%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $28.62 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.2%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.52; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.3%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75.8% of revenue deployed · 77.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $580K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $73K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.