COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

L41Z

Classification

1000

Street

PO BOX 1616

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

• INDIVIDUAL SHELTERS - THE WAYSTATION (OPENED IN 1982) IS A 36-BED EMERGENCY SHELTER FOR MEN AND WOMEN, AGES 18 AND OLDER, THAT PROVIDES SAFE AND DECENT SHELTER 365 NIGHTS A YEAR. THE DAYSTATION (OPENED IN 1988) IS A DAYTIME DROP-IN CENTER OFFERING REFUGE FROM THE STREETS EVERY DAY FROM 9AM - 5PM.

  Expenses $1,927,586 · Grants $3,944

• PREVENTION SERVICES - THE HOUSING RESOURCE CENTER WAS OPENED IN 2008 AND PROVIDES HOUSING RETENTION, PLACEMENT AND COMPREHENSIVE OUTREACH SERVICES TO HOMELESS AND LOW-INCOME PERSONS. HOUSING NAVIGATION SERVICES ARE A COMPONENT OF PREVENTION SERVICES. COTS' HOUSING NAVIGATORS PROVIDE ONE-ON-ONE SERVICES TO FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS WITH AN INTENSE FOCUS ON HOUSING PLACEMENT AND CONNECTION TO RESOURCES TO ENHANCE HOUSEHOLD INCOME. THE HOUSING NAVIGATORS ALSO CONNECT CLIENTS TO A BROAD RANGE OF FEDERAL, STATE AND COMMUNITY RESOURCES INCLUDING GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE, EMPLOYMENT SUPPORT SERVICES, FINANCIAL LITERACY, AND ASSET BUILDING PROGRAMS.

  Expenses $1,326,232 · Grants $70,603

• FAMILY SHELTERS - THE FIREHOUSE FAMILY SHELTER (OPENED IN 1988) AND MAIN STREET FAMILY SHELTER (OPENED IN 2002) ARE THE ONLY TWO FAMILY SHELTERS IN CHITTENDEN COUNTY. THEY PROVIDE TEMPORARY SHELTER FOR 15 FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN.

  Expenses $967,401

• TRANSITIONAL HOUSING - THE SMITH HOUSE OPENED IN 2002 TO PROVIDE CHRONICALLY HOMELESS AND HARDEST-TO-HOUSE INDIVIDUALS MOVING OUT OF SHELTERS WITH TRANSITIONAL HOUSING FOR FOUR TO SIX MONTHS. THE SMITH HOUSE HAS SEVEN SINGLE-ROOM OCCUPANCY UNITS AND FULL-TIME SUPPORT PERSONNEL. PERMANENT HOUSING - THE WILSON HOTEL (PURCHASED IN 1984) AND ST. JOHN'S HALL (PURCHASED IN 1991) PROVIDE 40 SINGLE-ROOM OCCUPANCY (SRO) UNITS AND FOUR APARTMENTS - PERMANENT HOUSING FOR FORMERLY HOMELESS AS WELL AS LOW- INCOME SENIOR CITIZENS AND VETERANS. IN THE RENOVATED 95 NORTH AVENUE BUILDING AND AS PART OF A LIMITED PARTNERSHIP OWNERSHIP INTEREST, COTS OWNS 14 UNITS OF PERMANENTLY AFFORDABLE HOUSING. COTS HAS ALSO DEVELOPED HOUSING IN A LIMITED PARTNERSHIP OWNERSHIP AT CANAL STREET IN WINOOSKI (29 UNITS) AND AT MAIN STREET (16 UNITS). MOTEL OUTREACH - DURING THE PANDEMIC, THE STATE OF VERMONT PLACED A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF HOMELESS PEOPLE IN MOTELS ACROSS THE STATE. COTS FORMED A TEAM OF OUTREACH WORKERS TO ADDRESS THE ONGOING, DAILY NEEDS OF THIS POPULATION. SERVICES ARE SIMILAR TO THOSE PROVIDED BY COTS HOUSING NAVIGATORS, AND OCCUR ONSITE AT MOTELS PRIMARILY IN CHITTENDEN COUNTY. THIS PROGRAM IS FUNDED BY THE STATE OF VERMONT WITH CARES ACT AND SIMILAR FUNDING. THIS PROGRAM WOUND DOWN IN APRIL 2025 AS THE TEMPORARY FUNDING ENDED.

  Expenses $569,336 · Grants $10,393 · Revenue $399,292

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $10,290,536

  Expenses

  $5,666,462

  Contributions

  $9,607,841

  Grants paid

  $84,940

• 2023

  Revenue

  $4,369,427

  Expenses

  $4,603,847

  Contributions

  $3,532,873

  Grants paid

  $99,321

• 2022

  Revenue

  $4,973,551

  Expenses

  $4,268,891

  Contributions

  $3,775,269

  Grants paid

  $68,656

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

  $6,717,253

  Expenses

  $3,792,936

  Assets (EOY)

  $13,228,459

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,821,535

  Expenses

  $3,936,484

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,814,120

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,771,835

  Expenses

  $3,504,812

  Assets (EOY)

  $10,272,797

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,545,704

  Expenses

  $3,741,321

  Assets (EOY)

  $8,216,119

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,586,117

  Expenses

  $3,540,440

  Assets (EOY)

  $8,351,509

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,451,115

  Expenses

  $3,566,411

  Assets (EOY)

  $8,281,451

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,452,237

  Expenses

  $4,025,709

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,847,992

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,700,932

  Expenses

  $3,771,860

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,985,328

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,309,366

  Expenses

  $3,580,036

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,409,556

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $3,468,160

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,386,311

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $1,017,240

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $698,000

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $446,760

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $446,180

  2022 · HUMAN SERVICES

• VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $121,400

  2022 · GENERAL PURPOSE

• VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $92,221

  2023 · GENERAL PURPOSE

• VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $82,964

  2024 · GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $75,195

  2024 · HUMAN SERVICES

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $59,110

  2023 · HUMAN SERVICES

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $37,000

  2024 · HUMAN SERVICES

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

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

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