Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$375,871

Total expenses

$370,393

Contributions and grants received

$300,426

Grants paid

$62,749

Program service revenue

$64,132

Investment income

$10,560

Other revenue

$753

Total assets, end of year

$367,313

Total liabilities, end of year

$21,894

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$345,419

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$299,569

Management and general expenses

$37,955

Fundraising expenses

$32,869

Program service expenses (Part III)

$299,569

Program services were 80.9% 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

• ADVOCACY AND ORGANIZING: The Coalition membership includes dozens of direct service organizations, faith groups, civic organizations and people experiencing homelessness. Together, we work and organize with people experiencing homelessness or housing instability to address their needs in multiple ways. The SYSTEMIC CAUSE OF HOMELESSNESS is the lack of 40,000 affordable housing units within Hamilton County and the City of Cincinnati. HISTORIC ANTI-CRIMINALIZATION SETTLEMENT: In Summer 2024, we settled a historic lawsuit against the City of Cincinnati for criminalizing people experiencing homelessness outdoors. Now, the police department is no longer the City's first response to people forced to live outdoors. Instead, the City Manager's office will send someone with a more caring tone to offer resources that may be available. If the City's tone changes from caring to wanting to move people, the City cannot require people to leave unless they can show there is a shelter bed available for each person, and then 72 hours later if the person is still present, the City again has to show a shelter bed is available for that person before any further action can be taken. The City of Cincinnati now "recognizes that imposing criminal penalties for sitting, sleeping, or laying on public property against individuals experiencing homelessness who cannot access shelter is prohibited by the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution", which bars "cruel and unusual punishment". After decades of people enduring criminalization for existing, and decades of advocacy and organizing, the police are officially no longer the city's first response to people experiencing homelessness outdoors on public property. In June 2024 we met with people who were living on Third Street in 2018 and were part of the filing of the lawsuit. We discussed the results of this settlement. Folks were ecstatic about our collective victory, but strongly said we have to strengthen our fight for housing. We are now working with folks to establish a Homeless Congress, which could be a place for people experiencing homelessness to organize and take official positions on policies, push systemic change and generally grow the movement. "CONNECTED COMMUNITIES" TASK FORCE: We organized hundreds of people to oppose the zoning changes the City of Cincinnati titled "Connected Communities." We opposed because it allows developers to build in much greater density (more homes in the same footprint) in certain parts of our city, which means significantly higher profits for developers, but does not require that any of that increased revenue benefit the community in the form of affordable housing. Instead, "Connected Communities" hands all of the increased profit to developers, while also increasing the risk of displacement predominantly for Black Households with lower incomes. The City of Cincinnati stated that through a process called filtering, more low income housing will be available after newer high income housing is built. We know that this is not how development works. Nonetheless, "Connected Communities" passed; but three members of City Council stood with us and voted no. Our collective opposition has lead to the creation of a Task Force whose purpose is to create amendments to "Connected Communities" legislation. We are now leading the Affordable Housing Committee of the Task Force. This Committee will create amendments, that if passed, will promote the development of truly affordable housing and prevent displacement. Stay tuned, because soon we will need your support to get City Council to pass these amendments. TENANT ORGANIZING TO SAVE AFFORDABLE HOUSING: -Worked with Tenants to establish or strengthen 11 different resident associations in the city across 8 different neighborhoods. -Organized with hundreds of Tenants to protect they and their neighbors' more than 2,300 homes, impacting over 5,000 people. -Facilitated Tenant Associations boldly presenting their positions and needs to: City of Cincinnati City Council and Administration, HUD, Community Councils, Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA), Members of Ohio's Congress and the Press. STRATEGIZING FOR THE NEXT BIG MOVE TO FUND THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING TRUST FUND: In the last 3 years we led the effort that collected more than 20,000 signatures to put 2 major measures on the ballot to fund truly affordable housing. More than 500 people volunteered to do the hard work to make affordable housing a real priority in our city's government. While neither issue passed, we moved from a time when almost nobody in Cincinnati knew what an Affordable Housing Trust Fund was to collectively getting more than 35,000 votes to boldly fund it. Building on that momentum, we are bringing in more everyday people and groups to strategize our next big move to fund the Affordable Housing Trust Fund.

  Expenses $147,700 · Revenue $27,109

• EDUCATION: The Coalition connects more people with its advocacy efforts through education of the general public, community leaders and local officials. Partnering with individuals who have experienced or are experiencing homelessness, who share their stories to put a face on homelessness and raise awareness about those struggling in our community, our SPEAKERS' BUREAU reaches many different people of all ages in schools, universities, faith communities, civic associations, businesses, service providers, etc.. The CINCINNATI URBAN EXPERIENCE is a 3-7 day immersive alternative break program for high school and college students. The SOCIAL JUSTICE WALKING TOUR travels through the streets, alleys and parks of Over-The-Rhine and clarifies the meaning and direction of decades of neglect and how the priorities of today's investments have caused displacement, loss of affordable housing and homelessness. The Coalition offers several more educational opportunities as well. The Coalition offers a full online training curriculum regarding homelessness, policy and housing development. Over the past year, our education program has become more robust as we hosted 131 education events, including our CINCINNATI URBAN EXPERIENCE, SPEAKERS' BUREAU, TOURS, TRAININGS and STREETVIBES SHADOWS. In those 131 events, we helped over 1,500 individuals deepen their understanding of homelessness. On top of this, we launched a new podcast, Roots and Roofs, and released 13 episodes. A participant in our CINCINNATI URBAN EXPERIENCE from Temple University, had this to say, "This trip really lit a spark in me and has pushed me in the direction I had not found previously. I always had an idea I would end up in the nonprofit space, but now I know there is a purpose to fight for. Seeing firsthand members of this community, do the work in every day life is something I won't forget." We also held multiple policy-focused TEACH-INS to respond to the growing urgency from people to understand our city's policies that are making housing unaffordable and inaccessible, so they may better organize and advocate.

  Expenses $74,356 · Revenue $31,713

• COORDINATION OF SERVICES (MEMBERSHIP): The Homeless Coalition is an organization founded on and driven by our members. Our membership includes our primary constituency - People experiencing homelessness throughout Geater Cincinnati: people residing in shelters and transitional housing, living outside and in places not meant for human habitation, and households who are bouncing from one doubled-up situation to another. We have dozens of direct service provider member organizations which provide services including all forms of shelter, affordable housing development, subsidized housing, supportive housing, street outreach, mental and medical health services, addiction detox and recovery, spiritual care, food and meal provisions, clothing, domestic violence response, services for school children, legal services, housing discrimination prevention and response and more. We facilitate the connection of our many members not only in the areas of advocacy and education, but also in the strategic implementation of services.

  Expenses $47,734 · Revenue $44,331

• STREETVIBES: Streetvibes is a social justice newspaper that is part of the International Street Newspaper Movement. The paper focuses on homelessness, social justice, and international news issues; telling the stories of poverty not printed in traditional newspapers. The papers are distributed by individuals who have experienced homelessness to earn supplemental income. Streetvibes also features articles, poetry, jokes, art, and photographs submitted by individuals who have experienced homelessness. Our number Distributors decreased sharply during the pandemic. We have continued to work to rebuild our roster of Distributors by recruiting new folks. In fiscal year 2024 we distributed over 10,050 papers. Streetvibes provides education about homelessness and affordable housing that many readers would not otherwise get.

  Expenses $29,779 · Revenue $5,310

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.

Grants on this return

• Cincinnati Action for Housing Now

  $20,300

  The Homeless Coalition provided financial support and in-kind contributions of goods and services to Cincinnati Action for Housing Now in the fall of 2023 to support a campaign to amend the charter of the City of Cincinnati to include a new revenue source to generate between $40 and $50 million annually for truly affordable housing development and preservation, and to provide the rules and regulations of the administration of these funds.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

15 May 2025

IRS schema version

2023v6.0

Source object

202521569349301467

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