Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$3,199,103

Total expenses

$3,006,138

Contributions and grants received

$3,107,795

Grants paid

$170,439

Program service revenue

$6,840

Investment income

$84,468

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$4,673,735

Total liabilities, end of year

$269,420

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$4,404,315

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$2,633,370

Management and general expenses

$314,178

Fundraising expenses

$58,590

Program service expenses (Part III)

$2,633,370

Program services were 87.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2023

• The Anchor House Shelter provides safe shelter and crisis intervention services for abused, runaway and homeless youth ages 12 to 17. Residential services include shelter, food, clothing, medical, dental and mental health care. Residents and outclients received individual, family and group counseling, life skills education, educational preparation, job readiness skills, substance abuse prevention and counseling, transportation, recreation, and service linkages. Aftercare counseling and support groups are available to residents, at-risk community youth and their families. A component of our Shelter services is our School Outreach Program. All Shelter youth are checked in with regarding school situations like attendance and grades and all youth are offered homework help if needed. Anchor House employs a School Outreach Counselor to manage these efforts and to connect with the Homeless Liaisons throughout Mercer County to provide individual and group counseling to students in an effort to keep youth in school and off the streets.

  Expenses $809,019 · Grants $928 · Revenue $6,840

• The Anchorage Transitional Living Program provides shelter, food, clothing, medical attention, psychological evaluations, therapy, individual and group counseling, life skills training, employment and educations services to homeless youth ages 18-21 to ensure their successful transition to independence. Discharged youth transitioned into safe, permanent housing. Staff help youth secure other resources such as wraparound funds for furniture and other necessities, and scholarships for college. Anchor Line Transitional Apartment Program provides apartments for homeless youth, 18 through 21 years of age. Youth receive life skills training, employment and education assistance, medical and mental health access and therapeutic counseling. Youth are taught how to advocate for themselves, access supportive services, and obtain and retain employment.

  Expenses $626,593 · Grants $3,630

• Anchor Link Outreach includes our Street Outreach Program (SOP), CoC Rapid Rehousing Program, Coordinated Entry for Homeless Youth, and the Youth Advisory Council (YAC). The Anchor House SOP, which has been at the forefront of Mercer County's youth homeless prevention efforts, works directly with runaway, homeless and street youth ages 14-21 in crisis and has a proven track record of successfully helping youth leave the streets, reduce exploitation, and improve their well-being and self-sufficiency. Rapid Rehousing serves youth 18 to 24 years of age who are HUD eligible for supportive housing. The program provides rental assistance, case management, employment and educational assistance, life skills training and assistance with housing counseling and searches. Anchor House's Youth Coordinated Entry Assessment System Team (CEAS) works with youth ages 18-24 years of age who are experiencing homelessness. CEAS works closely with all community partners serving this population to streamline and coordinate the navigation of youth through housing assessments and services, community and street outreach, crisis intervention and case management, and referrals to social service agencies. This team is integrated into the City of Trenton's Coordinated Entry and Assessment System under the CoC. Youth are encouraged to join our Youth Advisory Council (YAC) which gives them an opportunity to be involved in the service planning, program development and evaluation of Anchor House's programs, as well as advocate for runaway and homeless youth on a larger scale. Anchor House offers and connects youth to mental health services and all staff are trained in trauma informed care.

  Expenses $578,063 · Grants $112,517

• The Anchorage Transitional Living Program provides shelter, food, clothing, medical attention, psychological evaluations, therapy, individual and group counseling, life skills training, employment and educations services to homeless youth ages 18-21 to ensure their successful transition to independence. Discharged youth transitioned into safe, permanent housing. Staff help youth secure other resources such as wraparound funds for furniture and other necessities, and scholarships for college. Anchor Line Transitional Apartment Program provides apartments for homeless youth, 18 through 21 years of age. Youth receive life skills training, employment and education assistance, medical and mental health access and therapeutic counseling. Youth are taught how to advocate for themselves, access supportive services, and obtain and retain employment.

  Expenses $170,695 · Grants $113

• Youth in the Connect to Home Program are aging out of the child welfare system or may have been previously involved in the system and have experienced homelessness. Connect to Home provides supportive services and apartments through Housing Choice Vouchers for Section 8 Housing for up to 20 youth and we have been serving an increasing number of children through this program as several residents are parenting youth (60% in 2023). Our Life Skills Program serves youth referred by the NJ Department of Child Protection and Permanency (DCP&P). Youth may be 14 or older and case management may include in home services to access progress in needed life skills. Anchor House also offers life skills programming in all of our residential programs. A Youth Coach provides individual sessions on life skills topics such job skills, resume writing, healthy relationships, budgeting, teaching specific life skills as requested with youth, applying to college and other topics of interest to them.

  Expenses $449,000 · Grants $53,251

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

• ANCHOR HOUSE FOUNDATION INC

  501(c)(3) · RAISE FUNDS FOR ANCHOR HOUSE INC · NJ

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

28 April 2025

IRS schema version

2023v6.0

Source object

202541189349300749

Check it against the return as filed: the GivingTuesday Data Lake hosts a public copy of the original XML.

The source document this was parsed from is served over the API, which is where bulk and document access live.