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WINTER NIGHTS FAMILY SHELTER

EIN 84-4775540 PLEASANT HILL, CA

Revenue 2024
$765,108
Expenses 2024
$748,462

Program services were 77.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
L40
Classification
1000
Street
404 GREGORY LANE ROOM 7

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO PROVIDE SHELTER, RESOURCES, AND SUPPORT TO HOMELESS FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN AND HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS TO HELP THEM RETURN TO STABLE HOUSING, THROUGH A SEASONAL FAMILY SHELTER, A SAFE PARKING PROGRAM AND CONTINUED SUCCESS OUTREACH TO FORMER CLIENTS.

  • FAMILY SHELTER FOR HOMELESS PARENTS WITH MINOR CHILDREN. CAPACITY IS 8-9 FAMILIES ATA TIME. IT MOVES EVERY TWO WEEKS OCTOBER-JUNE BETWEEN 18 FAITH COMMUNITIES IN CONTRACOSTA COUNTY. WE WORK CLOSELY WITH EACH FAMILY TO UNDERSTAND THEIR UNIQUECIRCUMSTANCES AND HELP THEM FIND SUSTAINABLE HOUSING. COORDINATE 48 CONGREGATIONS AND COMMUNITY GROUPS TO PROVIDE FACILITIES AND SERVICES FOR 36 WEEKS AND OVER 3,000VOLUNTEERS TO PROVIDE EVENING MEALS, FOOD FOR LUNCH AND QUICK BREAKFASTS, AND EVENING AND WEEKEND ACTIVITIES. TUTORS HELP CHILDREN WITH HOMEWORK TO KEEP THEM AT GRADE LEVEL. TRAINED STAFF PROVIDES 24-HOUR SUPERVISION ALONG WITH VAN TRANSPORTATION TO SCHOOL, WORK, AND TO OASIS DAY CENTER. OASIS IS OPEN ON WEEKDAYS FOR BOTH FAMILY SHELTER AND SAFE PARKING CLIENTS. CLIENTS CAN MEET WITH OUR STAFF OF CLIENT MANAGERS TO WORK ON GETTING EMPLOYMENT AND HOUSING. OASIS HAS SHOWERS.

    Expenses $579,697 · Grants $28,566

  • SAFE PARKING PROGRAM IS A YEAR-ROUND PROGRAM TO HELP INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES WHO ARE LIVING IN THEIR CARS. WE STAFF OVERNIGHT, SUPERVISED PARKING IN PITTSBURG AND ANTIOCH, AND PROVIDE AN UNDERSTANDING COMMUNITY, RESTROOMS, HYGIENE SUPPLIES, LIGHT MEALS AND SNACKS, AND ALL CLIENT SERVICES FOR EMPLOYMENT AND HOUSING. CAPACITY IS 15 CARS AND 20 TOTAL CLIENTS AT A TIME AT EACH SITE. SHOWERS ARE AVAILABLE AT OASIS DAYCENTER.

  • CONTINUED SUCCESS PROGRAM STAYS CONNECTED WITH OVER 80 ALUMNI HOUSEHOLDS OF THEFAMILY SHELTER AND SAFE PARKING PROGRAM. WE REACH OUT THROUGH QUARTERLY EMAILS ANDPROVIDE ADVICE, REFERRALS, AND IN SOME CASES FINANCIAL HELP WITH OVERDUE RENT ORUTILITIES, CAR REPAIRS, PHONE BILLS, OR GAS AND STORE GIFT CARDS. THIS ASSISTANCE HAS HELPED MANY ALUMNI HOUSEHOLDS REMAIN HOUSED WHEN FACED WITH FINANCIAL HARDSHIPS.

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Carmella Kowall

    Exec Director

    Total calculated
    $72,970
    From this org
    $72,970
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Liz Haughey

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $11,400
    From this org
    $11,400
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Dan Swander

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Ashley E Day

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Ann Lawrence

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Emily Hanson

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Lea Esqueda

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Catherine Mesgar

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Bruce Smith

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $765,108
    Expenses
    $748,462
    Contributions
    $762,837
    Grants paid
    $28,566
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $692,333
    Expenses
    $706,766
    Contributions
    $687,960
    Grants paid
    $21,382
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $569,174
    Expenses
    $570,371
    Contributions
    $568,089
    Grants paid
    $24,622

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $606,801
    Expenses
    $529,637
    Assets (EOY)
    $385,397

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $471,938
    Expenses
    $400,930
    Assets (EOY)
    $313,588

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.