Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$667,307

Total expenses

$665,395

Contributions and grants received

$667,307

Grants paid

$356,485

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$0

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$10,620

Total liabilities, end of year

$0

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$10,620

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$641,960

Management and general expenses

$23,435

Fundraising expenses

$0

Program service expenses (Part III)

$641,960

Program services were 96.5% 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 · 2022

• Operate a Continuum of Care organization and system fulfilling the HUD CoC Program Interim Rule 24 CFR 579 for the 12 parishes (counties) of of Northeast Louisiana including coordinating regional planning, services, data collection and reporting including system resources and gaps, Point in Time (street and shelter count and survey), Housing Inventory of homeless housing and services, and compiling, ranking, and submitting local applications for the HUD CoC Program competition; the organization completed all required federal reporting including Point in Time, Housing Inventory Chart, and conducted ongoing review and technical asst. to programs funded through the HUD CoC competition providing $1,936,324 in federal funds to provide homeless services to the region. Membership includes approximately 40 organizations that are impacted by and concerned with homelessness including service providers, mainstream benefits orgs, healthcare, law enforcement, donors, governments, businesses, etc. These many community representatives meet at least quarterly to assess local needs and plan local responses; training for membership is provided several times per year during these meetings, in webinars, and onsite when possible. Regional outcomes data is tracked to manage progress ending homelessness. In 2020, the service area was 14th in the U.S. among top performing regions with high performance achieving national benchmarks of returning persons to housing.

  Expenses $74,393 · Revenue $99,979

• Offer noncongregate shelter (NCS) to unsheltered persons and provide subgrants to two major community service providers to provide more NCS as well as prevention (screening and referral services). These services are made possible by stimulus act funds through the CARES Act, specifically ESG-CV funds. A projected 300 persons over the course of the grant period will be provided shelter when no other shelter is available. Accompanying supportive services are basic needs (food, clothing, referrals to medical or mental health care), meals, transportation, referrals to programs that provide appropriate permanent housing. During the period when this service is available, the region has achieved functional zero unsheltered homeless -- that is, all person who become literally homeless are referred immediately to appropriate shelter ASAP. Further, there is sufficient shelter so that no person has to remain unsheltered. This service has been especially important during the COVID pandemic when unsheltered homelessness increases the risk of expose to COVID of the homeless persons and the community.

  Expenses $364,301 · Grants $356,485 · Revenue $359,887

• Maintain and oversee the region's coordinated entry system tracking and completing referrals of persons seeking homeless assistance in a fair, transparent, and time sensitive program model that lets no one fall through the cracks and serves people in order of vulnerability and need. In 2022 the system screened over 700 households and referred them to appropriate programs and resources to end their homelessness; indicative of the success of these referrals, the region reports fewer than 3% of households served return to homelessness, far above the national benchmark of 5% for top performance. This indicates the appropriateness of referrals of matching needs to services.

  Expenses $111,597 · Revenue $112,122

• Maintain and operate the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) database to track and report services to persons seeking homeless assistance in the service area. Data collected tracks progress of programs and progress addressing homelessness and holds federally and state-funded programs accountable while making their operations transparent for stakeholders. This HMIS instance is part of the statewide HMIS which has over 600 users, about 50 of which are in the filing organization's parishes. The local system accounts for over 500 persons served each year in 325 beds of homeless housing. The system successfully and timely submitted all required federal reporting including APRs, LSA, SPMs, etc.. All federally funded programs that are required to use HMIS participate in this HMIS system including those funded by HUD, PATH, VA, etc.

  Expenses $91,669 · Revenue $95,319

As filed on the 2022 return.

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

• The Wellspring Alliance for Families Inc

  $254,159

  ESG CARES Act funds subgranted to this subgrantee during the COVID-19 emergency response, which included the 2022 reporting period, for the purpose of funding non congregate emergency shelter, supportive services, and certain administrative costs to serve persons literally homeless (i.e., sleeping in a location not fit for human habitation such as outdoors, car, park, etc. Purpose is to prevent spread of COVID-19 among the population. Approximately 200 persons to be served during the grant period.

• Easter Seals of Louisiana

  $102,326

  ESG CARES Act funds subgranted to this subgrantee during the COVID-19 emergency response, which included the 2022 reporting period, for the purpose of funding non congregate emergency shelter, supportive services, and certain administrative costs to serve persons literally homeless (i.e., sleeping in a location not fit for human habitation such as outdoors, car, park, etc. Purpose is to prevent spread of COVID-19 among the population. Approximately 50 persons to be served during the grant period.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

13 November 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

202333199349303198

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