Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$4,989,536

Total expenses

$5,521,839

Contributions and grants received

$4,963,954

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$24,174

Investment income

$133,916

Other revenue

-$132,508

Total assets, end of year

$5,216,427

Total liabilities, end of year

$374,942

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$4,841,485

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$4,126,055

Management and general expenses

$334,166

Fundraising expenses

$1,061,618

Program service expenses (Part III)

$4,126,055

Program services were 74.7% 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 · 2023

• OUTREACH: INTAKE STAFF RECEIVED 2,502 CALLS IN 2023 (A 19% INCREASE OVER LAST YEAR) THROUGH ITS 24/7 HOTLINE. GOOD COUNSEL PROVIDES COMPREHENSIVE ADVOCACY THROUGH ITS 24/7 HOTLINE BY ENSURING IMMEDIATE AND CONTINUOUS SUPPORT FOR INDIVIDUALS IN NEED. THE HOTLINE OPERATES AROUND THE CLOCK, OFFERING A LIFELINE TO THOSE SEEKING ASSISTANCE, GUIDANCE, AND REASSURANCE AT ANY HOUR. FOR EXAMPLE, INTAKE STAFF MEMBER SABRINA RECEIVED A CALL FROM A WOMAN CANCELING HER APPOINTMENT WITH GOOD COUNSEL. SHE DIDN'T STATE WHY. SABRINA CALLED HER BACK BECAUSE SHE JUST FELT SOMETHING WAS NOT RIGHT. WHEN SPEAKING WITH THE PREGNANT MOM, SABRINA ASKED HER IF SHE COULD PICK HER UP AND DRIVE HER TO ONE OF OUR HOMES. THE MOM ACCEPTED. DRIVING TO THE HOME, THE MOM TURNED TO SABRINA AND TOLD HER THAT IF SHE HAD NOT BEEN PICKED UP, SHE WAS SCHEDULED FOR AN ABORTION THE NEXT DAY. OUR CRISIS PREGNANCY WEBSITE RECEIVED OVER 34,000 VISITS, MARKING AN IMPRESSIVE UPTICK OF NEARLY 50% COMPARED TO THE PREVIOUS YEAR. THIS COMPREHENSIVE WEBSITE PROVIDES RESOURCES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. OVERALL, MORE THAN 100,000 INDIVIDUALS PER YEAR LEARN ABOUT GOOD COUNSEL'S SERVICES THROUGH MAILINGS, EMAILS, SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS, AND EVENTS.

  Expenses $907,732 · Revenue $5,318

• HOUSING: GOOD COUNSEL PROVIDED HOUSING FOR 198 MOTHERS IN 2023, MARKING A SIGNIFICANT 60% INCREASE COMPARED TO 2022. ADDITIONALLY, THERE WAS A REMARKABLE 56% RISE IN THE NUMBER OF BABIES BORN, TOTALING 42 IN 2023. THIS IS SARAH'S WITNESS DURING ONE OF OUR EVENTS: MY NAME IS SARAH, AND MY BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER IS MARY. TODAY, I AM HERE TO SHARE OUR JOURNEY, A JOURNEY THAT LED US TO THE DOORS OF THE SPRING VALLEY HOUSE, OUR REFUGE AT GOOD COUNSEL. BEFORE FINDING OUR SANCTUARY HERE, MARY AND I RESIDED IN EDISON, NEW JERSEY. LIFE WAS A SERIES OF STRUGGLES, WITH ME WORKING ONLY PART-TIME, TRYING AS BEST I COULD TO MAKE ENDS MEET. LOSING BOTH OF MY PARENTS LEFT US FEELING UTTERLY ALONE, WITH NO FAMILY NEARBY TO LEAN ON FOR SUPPORT. BASICALLY, I WAS RAISING A TODDLER ALONE WITH INADEQUATE FUNDS AND NO STABLE HOUSING. BUT THEN, GOOD COUNSEL BECAME OUR BEACON OF HOPE. HERE, AMIDST THE CARING WALLS OF THE SPRING VALLEY HOME, I FOUND MORE THAN JUST SHELTER; I FOUND A COMMUNITY OF WOMEN DEDICATED TO LIFTING US UP AND HELPING US TO REBUILD OUR LIVES. YES, THERE HAVE BEEN STUMBLING BLOCKS ALONG THE WAY. I HAD DIFFICULTY FINDING EMPLOYMENT AND SOMETIMES THE STRESS OF THE SITUATION AFFECTED ME. BUT EVERY TIME I FALTERED, GOOD COUNSEL WAS THERE, OFFERING A STEADYING HAND AND UNWAVERING SUPPORT. TODAY, I PROUDLY STAND BEFORE YOU AS A FULL-TIME EMPLOYEE OF A THRIVING BUSINESS IN THE ROCKLAND COMMUNITY. IN FACT, I AM THE ASSISTANT MANAGER, AND IN TIME, I HOPE TO BE PROMOTED TO THE MANAGER'S POSITION. I AM DILIGENTLY SAVING EVERY PENNY IN ORDER TO SECURE A PLACE TO CALL OUR OWN, AND WE PLAN TO RESIDE NEAR MY JOB AND GOOD COUNSEL IN ROCKLAND COUNTY. AND MARY? SHE'S THRIVING, AND WITH THE HELP LOCAL SOCIAL SERVICES, SHE IS ATTENDING FREE FULL-TIME DAY CARE. WHEN THE DAY CARE IS NOT IN SESSION, THE STAFF PROVIDE BABYSITTING IN THE HOME. MARY IS EMBRACING EVERY OPPORTUNITY THAT COMES HER WAY. I AM BEYOND GRATEFUL FOR THE LOVE, KINDNESS, AND GUIDANCE WE'VE RECEIVED HERE. GOOD COUNSEL ISN'T JUST A SHELTER; IT'S A LIFELINE-A PLACE WHERE FAMILIES LIKE MINE FIND HOPE, HEALING, AND A CHANCE FOR A BRIGHTER FUTURE. I EXTEND MY DEEPEST GRATITUDE TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU WHO HAS PLAYED A PART IN OUR JOURNEY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROSITY, YOUR COMPASSION, AND YOUR UNWAVERING BELIEF IN OUR POTENTIAL. WITH YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT, I KNOW THAT MARY AND I, ALONG WITH OTHER MOTHERS AND CHILDREN LIKE US, WILL CONTINUE TO FLOURISH AND THRIVE.

  Expenses $2,104,288 · Revenue $12,087

• Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

  Expenses $701,429 · Revenue $4,110

• ALL OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS: 1.PROVIDED SERVICES TO MIGRANT PREGNANT WOMEN WHO ARE INELIGIBLE FOR GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE. RECOGNIZING THE IMPORTANCE OF PRENATAL CARE FOR BOTH THE MOTHER'S AND BABY'S HEALTH, GOOD COUNSEL COVERED THE COSTS OF ALL DOCTOR'S VISITS AND ANY NECESSARY PROCEDURES. 2.HIRED A PSYCHOTHERAPIST WHO OFFERS ONE-ON-ONE THERAPY SESSIONS TO ADDRESS INDIVIDUAL MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS, SUCH AS ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, TRAUMA, AND STRESS. ALSO, ORGANIZES SESSIONS FOCUSED ON SPECIFIC THEMES LIKE COPING STRATEGIES, PARENTING SKILLS, AND STRESS MANAGEMENT.

  Expenses $412,606 · Revenue $2,659

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

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.

Taxable family on this return

Schedule R Parts I, III and IV, as filed. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money moved.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

11 November 2024

IRS schema version

2023v5.0

Source object

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