Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$4,357,309

Total expenses

$3,255,880

Contributions and grants received

$4,256,205

Grants paid

$174,595

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$92,648

Other revenue

$8,456

Total assets, end of year

$5,766,755

Total liabilities, end of year

$261,011

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$5,505,744

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$2,855,366

Management and general expenses

$328,623

Fundraising expenses

$71,891

Program service expenses (Part III)

$2,855,366

Program services were 87.7% 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 · 2024

• The Anchor House Shelter provides a full spectrum of services to youth under 18 and their families, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Services to youth include safety plans, temporary shelter, food, clothing, crisis intervention, coordinated case management, individual, group and family counseling, access to medical, dental and mental health care, life skills education, school outreach, transportation, and aftercare. There was a 58% increase in Shelter residents in 2025 compared to 2024.The Anchor House School Outreach Program offers confidential, comprehensive support services to schools and community organizations throughout Mercer County and educational assistance to Anchor House youth. Anchor House employs a School Outreach Counselor to coordinate these efforts and to connect with guidance counselors and 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. All Shelter youth are checked in with regarding school situations like attendance and grades and all youth are offered homework help if needed. This programming continues to grow with 331 youth served in 2024 and 553 in 2025.

  Expenses $847,591 · Grants $2,418

• Anchor House's Street Outreach Program (SOP) serves young people ages 14-21 who are experiencing homelessness, have run away, or are in crisis. Through direct street outreach, staff build trusting relationships by offering basic needs such as food and clothing and connecting youth to shelter, safe housing, and supportive services that reduce risk of exploitation and promote stability and self-sufficiency. A Drop-In Center located at 868 Brunswick Avenue in Trenton complements the work being done on the streets where youth who are experiencing homelessness, living on the streets or at-risk of becoming homeless can frequent for meals, laundry, case management services and have access to email/Internet and a phone. Anchor House runs three programs in conjunction with the Trenton/Mercer Continuum of Care (CoC): two Rapid Rehousing Programs including one designed to meet the needs of LGBTQI+ youth that launched in July 2024, and Coordinated Entry Assessment System (CEAS). Anchor House started our first Rapid Rehousing program in 2009 to serve youth ages 18-24 who are HUD-eligible for supportive housing. The program provides rental assistance along with comprehensive support services, including case management, employment and educational assistance, life skills training, housing counseling, and assistance with housing searches. In July 2024, Anchor House launched a new Rapid Rehousing program specifically designed to meet the needs of youth who identify as LGBTQI+, a population that experiences disproportionately high rates of homelessness. Anchor House's Coordinated Entry Assessment System (CEAS) team serves youth who are homeless, ages 18-24. 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 participate on our Youth Advisory Council (YAC) where they can contribute to service planning, program development, and evaluation at Anchor House, and advocate on behalf of young people experiencing homelessness and other related issues on a broader scale.

  Expenses $747,560 · Grants $107,404

• 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.

  Expenses $646,123 · Grants $5,918

• Our Connect to Home (CTH) Program is designed for youth that are aging out of the child welfare system or may have been previously involved in the system and have experienced homelessness. CTH provides supportive services and apartments through Housing Choice Vouchers for Section 8 Housing for up to 20 youth. CTH has been serving an increasing number of children through this program as several residents are parenting youth (59% in 2024, 70% in 2025). Our Life Skills Program served youth referred by the NJ Department of Child Protection and Permanency (DCP&P). The program concluded on June 30, 2025, following DCP&P's decision to end the initiative statewide. Anchor House continues to offer life skills programming in all of our residential programs.

  Expenses $477,063 · Grants $58,385

• Anchor Line Transitional Apartment Program provides apartments for youth experiencing homelessness, ages 18-21. 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 $137,029 · Grants $470

As filed on the 2024 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

2024

Filed

22 April 2026

IRS schema version

2024v5.5

Source object

202631129349300948

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