Carpenter's Place INC

Tax-deductible

Rockford, IL501(c)(3)Since 2000Human ServicesEIN 36-4352283Revenue $2.7M in FY2024

On file with the IRScarpentersplace.org1149 Railroad Ave, 61104-1309 · Rockford, ILTax-exempt since Aug 2000Publicly supported charity — 170(b)(1)(A)(vi)

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Carpenter's Place provides the tools necessary for rebuilding the lives of the homeless. Inspired by christ's compassion, we offer direction with accountability to people with broken lives, helping them find peace with god, themselves and their communities.

501(c)(3) charity; gifts are tax-deductible.
75¢ of each $1 spent went to programs.
Run by 509 volunteers and 62 employees.
Mission: Form 990 Part I, line 1 · Status: IRS Pub. 78 · Programs: Part IX · People: Part I, lines 5–6

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FY2024 · Form 990Independent: from IRS data, not the org
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IRS status
501(c)(3)
not on the IRS revocation list
Looks good: listed by the IRS and not on the revocation list.
IRS BMF · Auto-Revocation List
Tax-deductible gifts
Yes
Donations are tax-deductible
Looks good: the IRS lists gifts to it as deductible.
IRS Pub. 78 · IRS BMF
Latest return
FY2024
latest Form 990
Looks good: the latest return is for FY2024, 2 tax years back; within 2 tax years.
IRS e-file · Filing history
Surplus or deficit
3 of 5
filings with a surplus
Average surplus $376K a year · 15% of revenue · last 5 filings
Worth a look: a surplus in 3 of the last 5 filings.
Pt I · Ln 19 · 5 filings
Spent on programs
75%
of spending
Fine: 75% of spending went to programs; 65% to 75%.
Pt IX · Ln 25 · col B
Pay to officers and key staff
$134K
to officers and key staff · 4% of spending
Top officer’s pay higher than 64% of similar orgs
Looks good: pay to officers and key staff is 4% of spending; 15% or less.
Pt VII · Sec A
Cash reserves
2 mo
of spending, in cash
Fine: 1.8 months of spending in cash; 1 to 3.
Pt X · Ln 1–2 · Pt I · Ln 18
Named funders
13
named funders · $167K
Looks good: 13 funders name it on their filings; 3 or more.
Funders’ Sch. I, 990-PF
Liabilities
$800K
17% of total assets
Looks good: liabilities are 17% of assets; 50% or less.
Pt X · Ln 26
Independent board members
18
of 18 voting members
Looks good: 18 of 18 voting members are independent, a majority.
Pt VI · Ln 1a–1b
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Revenue
$2.7M
+11% vs prior year
Spent
$3.1M
To programs
75%
Net assets
$3.9M
By yearFY2020–FY2024
Revenue
$2.7M
FY2024▲ +11%
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Revenue by fiscal year
FY2020$2.7M
FY2021$2.3M
FY2022$2.7M
FY2023$2.1M
FY2024$2.5M
FY2024$2.7M
Expenses
$3.1M
FY2024▲ +18%
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Expenses by fiscal year
FY2020$1.6M
FY2021$1.7M
FY2022$2.0M
FY2023$2.5M
FY2024$2.6M
FY2024$3.1M
Net assets
$3.9M
FY2024▼ -4%
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Net assets by fiscal year
FY2020$2.8M
FY2021$3.7M
FY2022$4.3M
FY2023$4.1M
FY2024$4.1M
FY2024$3.9M

From the FY2024 Form 990 · figures checked against the IRS filing · see the original

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Is it real?

Yes. Never revoked by the IRS. Latest filing on record: FY2024. IRS ruling in Aug 2000.

IRS Pub. 78 · IRS Auto-Revocation List · IRS Business Master File

Where the money goes

75 cents of each dollar spent went to programs.

Program services 75% · $2.3M Management & general 21% · $646K Fundraising 4% · $123K

Form 990 Part IX, line 25, columns B–D. Every line is in By the numbers.

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Who runs it and what they're paid

19 people listed on the 990; $134K paid to officers and key staff.

Part VII, Section A · reportable compensation
Executive Di
$133,500Pt VII · Sec A
Vice Preside
$0Pt VII · Sec A
Past Preside
$0Pt VII · Sec A
$0Pt VII · Sec A
$0Pt VII · Sec A
$0Pt VII · Sec A
$0Pt VII · Sec A
$0Pt VII · Sec A

Alberto Carrion’s $134K as Executive Di is at the 64th percentile of top reported officer pay among 3868 $1–10M human services nonprofits. Peer set: organizations in the same NTEE major field of work and revenue-size band, compared on each org’s own highest-paid officer/key-employee, from Form 990 Part VII / 990-PF Part VIII. Descriptive placement, not a verdict on whether the pay is appropriate.

Compensation history total reportable pay by year · 3 named individuals · Part VII

NameFY2024FY2024FY2023FY2022FY2021FY2020
Alberto Carrion$133,500—————
Mike O'Connor—$125,000$70,599$81,731——
Kay Larrick———$65,969$103,488$93,500

Total reportable compensation (Form 990 Part VII column D / Schedule J column E) by filing year, matched by name within this organization. The Schedule J base / bonus / deferred breakdown is not parsed into this dataset.

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Questions the 990 asks

The form asks each of these directly. These are the filed answers.

  • Family or business ties among officersPt VI · Ln 2No
  • Top official's pay set by an independent reviewPt VI · Ln 15aYes

Programs and updates

Empowers homeless individuals with resources to rebuild their lives.

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3 programs · $2.3M · in their own filed words · FY2024
01

Housing Program

Carpenter's place provides housing for 47 homeless adults. The target populations for this program include: 3 veterans, 8 chronically homeless adults, 4 women with no attendant children, 4 homeless adults with mental illness, and 48 men who obtained new employment, but had not yet become self-supporting, and 4 homeless families (8…

$862Kprogram expense
02

Day Shelter Program

Carpenter's place provides a day shelter where homeless men and women can access services and be safe from the dangers of the streets and inclement weather. For the fiscal year ending june 30, 2025, an average of 106 individuals came to the day shelter daily totaling 666 unique visitors and 24,660 visits.

$862Kprogram expense
03

Case Management Program

For the fiscal year ending june 30, 2025, 1,471 homeless men and women were in the carpenter's place case management program. The goal of the program is to identify, provide, AND/OR secure the services needed to rebuild the lives of the homeless adults so they can reach self-sufficiency.

$575Kprogram expense

Funders

Who pays for it.

From grant filings on record. Receipts are incomplete: individual donors are never listed.

Grants

Schedule I · received and paid
Grants received · FY2024
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Grants paid · 23 grants · $1.8M · 2019–2024
Unitemized GrantFY2024$200,476
Unitemized GrantFY2024$4,926
Unitemized GrantFY2023$199,957
Unitemized GrantFY2023$2,946
Unitemized GrantFY2022$232,244
Unitemized GrantFY2022$5,374
Unitemized GrantFY2021$206,137
Unitemized GrantFY2021$8,643
Unitemized GrantFY2020$247,913
Unitemized GrantFY2020$44,654
Unitemized GrantFY2020$44,292
Unitemized GrantFY2020$1,462
Unitemized GrantFY2020$802
Unitemized GrantFY2019$184,213
Unitemized GrantFY2019$184,213
Unitemized GrantFY2019$63,048
Unitemized GrantFY2019$63,048
Unitemized GrantFY2019$42,059
See all 23 grants →

By the numbers

The FY2024 990, line by line.

1The main four
Money inPt VIII
$2.7M
Ln 12
Gifts and grantsLn 1h$2.5M
Other incomeLn 4–11$181K
Fees for servicesLn 2g$63K
Money outPt IX
$3.1M
Ln 25
Programscol B$2.3M
Managementcol C$646K
Fundraisingcol D$123K
Owns and owesPt X
$3.9M
net assets · Ln 32
Cash and savingsLn 1–2$455K
Total assetsLn 16$4.7M
LiabilitiesLn 26$800K
PeoplePt VI, VII
19
listed · VII A
PaidVII A1
Voting boardVI 1a18
IndependentVI 1b18
2In more detail
Revenue in detailPt VIII
Gifts and grantsLn 1h$2.5M
Government grantsLn 1e$331K
Noncash giftsLn 1g$1.2M
Fundraising eventsLn 1c$29K
Fees for servicesLn 2g$63K
Investment incomeLn 3$3K
Other incomeLn 4–11$181K
Total revenueLn 12$2.7M
Assets in detailPt X, end of year
CashLn 1$453K
SavingsLn 2$2K
Cash and savings togetherLn 1–2$455K
InvestmentsLn 11–13$1.6M
Land, buildings, equipmentLn 10c$1.7M
Total assetsLn 16$4.7M
LiabilitiesLn 26$800K
Net assetsLn 32$3.9M
OperationsPt I, VI
EmployeesI 562
VolunteersI 6509
Fiscal year endsHeaderDecember
Conflict-of-interest policyVI 12aYes
Whistleblower policyVI 13Yes
Records policyVI 14Yes
3Year over year
Balance sheet, start vs end of yearPt X · col A, B
LineStart FY24End FY24
Cash and savingsLn 1–2$791K$455K
InvestmentsLn 11–13$1.6M$1.6M
Land, buildings, equipmentLn 10c$1.6M$1.7M
Total assetsLn 16$4.2M$4.7M
LiabilitiesLn 26$154K$800K
Net assetsLn 32$4.1M$3.9M
4Every line
Statement of functional expensesPt IX · every line
LineTotalProgramsManagementFundraising
Grants to domestic individualsLn 2$436K$436K
Pay of current officers, directors and key staffLn 5$90K$60K$25K$5K
Other salaries and wagesLn 7$1.4M$921K$378K$73K
Other employee benefitsLn 9$170K$114K$47K$9K
Payroll taxesLn 10$190K$127K$52K$10K
Legal feesLn 11b$15K$2K$13K
Accounting feesLn 11c$35K$35K
Investment management feesLn 11f$11K$11K
Other fees for servicesLn 11g$98K$50K$47K$835
Advertising and promotionLn 12$44K$35K$3K$6K
Office expensesLn 13$5K$23$4K$449
Information technologyLn 14$28K$26K$2K$509
OccupancyLn 16$245K$230K$12K$4K
TravelLn 17$9K$8K$475$458
Depreciation, depletion and amortizationLn 22$110K$102K$2K$6K
Other expenses (24a–d)Ln 24$170K$162K$8K$110
All other expensesLn 24e$39K$25K$6K$8K
Total functional expensesLn 25$3.1M$2.3M$646K$123K

Filing history

YearMoney inMoney outIn minus outNet assetsDownload
FY2024 $2.5M$2.6M−$151K$4.1M 990 PDF
FY2023 $2.1M$2.5M−$373K$4.1M 990 PDF
FY2022 $2.7M$2.0M$730K$4.3M 990 PDF
FY2021 $2.3M$1.7M$609K$3.7M 990 PDF
FY2020 $2.7M$1.6M$1.1M$2.8M 990 PDF

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Schedules filed Part IV

III · Programs I · Grants R · Related orgs G · Fundraising L · Interested persons A · Public support F · Foreign M · Noncash
See the full FY2024 990 (6 parts)
Part I · Summary $2,735,306 revenue, 12 lines filed
I-8 Contributions and grantsPrior year $2,114,015$2,488,021
I-9 Program service revenuePrior year $70,747$63,338
I-10 Investment incomePrior year $4,009$2,987
I-11 Other revenuePrior year $270,792$180,960
I-12 Total revenuePrior year $2,459,563$2,735,306
I-13 Grants and similar amounts paidPrior year $325,243$435,997
I-14 Benefits paid to members$0
I-15 Salaries and benefitsPrior year $1,649,738$1,821,581
I-16a Professional fundraising fees$0
I-17 Other expensesPrior year $635,867$810,301
I-18 Total expensesPrior year $2,610,848$3,067,879
I-19 Revenue less expensesPrior year −$151,285−$332,573
Part VI · Governance 18 of 18 board members independent, no flags
VI-1a Voting members of the governing body18
VI-1b Independent voting members18
VI-2 Family or business relationship among officers or directorsNo
VI-12a Written conflict of interest policyYes
VI-13 Written whistleblower policyYes
VI-14 Document retention and destruction policyYes
VI-15a Process for setting top official's payYes
Part VIII · Statement of revenue $2,735,306 across 10 lines filed
Lines not itemized here account for $95,240 of total revenue; see the IRS return.
VIII-1c Fundraising events$28,674
VIII-1e Government grants$331,092
VIII-1f All other contributions, gifts and grants$2,128,255
VIII-1g Noncash contributions (included above)$1,155,036
VIII-1h Total contributions, gifts and grants$2,488,021
VIII-2a-f Program service revenue, itemized rows (sum of 2a–2f as filed)Related to mission $63,338$63,338
VIII-3 Investment incomeExcluded from tax $2,987$2,987
VIII-8 Net income from fundraising eventsExcluded from tax $69,044$69,044
VIII-11a-d Other revenue, itemized rows (sum of 11a–11d as filed)Excluded from tax $16,676$16,676
VIII-12 Total revenueRelated to mission $63,338 · Excluded from tax $183,947$2,735,306
Part IX · Statement of functional expenses $3,067,879 across 17 lines filed
IX-2 Grants to domestic individualsPrograms $435,997$435,997
IX-5 Pay of current officers, directors and key staffPrograms $60,330 · Management $24,772 · Fundraising $4,808$89,910
IX-7 Other salaries and wagesPrograms $920,782 · Management $378,084 · Fundraising $73,378$1,372,244
IX-9 Other employee benefitsPrograms $113,741 · Management $46,704 · Fundraising $9,064$169,509
IX-10 Payroll taxesPrograms $127,436 · Management $52,327 · Fundraising $10,155$189,918
IX-11b Legal feesPrograms $2,042 · Management $13,440$15,482
IX-11c Accounting feesManagement $35,226$35,226
IX-11f Investment management feesManagement $11,087$11,087
IX-11g Other fees for servicesPrograms $50,027 · Management $47,217 · Fundraising $835$98,079
IX-12 Advertising and promotionPrograms $34,854 · Management $3,056 · Fundraising $6,188$44,098
IX-13 Office expensesPrograms $23 · Management $4,220 · Fundraising $449$4,692
IX-14 Information technologyPrograms $26,074 · Management $1,527 · Fundraising $509$28,110
IX-16 OccupancyPrograms $230,126 · Management $11,679 · Fundraising $3,524$245,329
IX-17 TravelPrograms $8,037 · Management $475 · Fundraising $458$8,970
IX-22 Depreciation, depletion and amortizationPrograms $102,106 · Management $1,957 · Fundraising $5,871$109,934
IX-24 Other expenses (24a–d)Programs $161,918 · Management $8,328 · Fundraising $110$170,356
IX-24e All other expensesPrograms $24,857 · Management $6,054 · Fundraising $8,027$38,938
IX-25 Total functional expensesPrograms $2,298,350 · Management $646,153 · Fundraising $123,376$3,067,879
Part X · Balance sheet $4,689,651 assets, 17 lines filed
X-1 Cash, non-interest-bearingStart of year $575,172$452,875
X-2 Savings and temporary cash investmentsStart of year $216,173$2,009
X-3 Pledges and grants receivableStart of year $87,655$64,104
X-8 Inventories for sale or useStart of year $108,249$211,958
X-9 Prepaid expenses and deferred chargesStart of year $31,381$49,633
X-10c Land, buildings and equipment, netStart of year $1,581,786$1,654,625
X-11 Publicly traded securitiesStart of year $1,591,449$1,645,195
X-14 Intangible assetsStart of year $16,599$609,252
X-16 Total assetsStart of year $4,208,464$4,689,651
X-17 Accounts payable and accrued expensesStart of year $117,017$143,545
X-19 Deferred revenueStart of year $19,952$46,343
X-25 Other liabilitiesStart of year $16,745$610,505
X-26 Total liabilitiesStart of year $153,714$800,393
X-27 Net assets without donor restrictionsStart of year $2,620,899$2,397,775
X-28 Net assets with donor restrictionsStart of year $1,433,851$1,491,483
X-32 Total net assets or fund balancesStart of year $4,054,750$3,889,258
X-33 Total liabilities and net assetsStart of year $4,208,464$4,689,651
Part XI · Reconciliation of net assets $3,889,258 net assets at year end
XI-1 Total revenue$2,735,306
XI-2 Total expenses$3,067,879
XI-3 Revenue less expenses−$332,573
XI-4 Net assets at start of year$4,054,750
XI-5 Net unrealized gains (losses) on investments$167,081
XI-10 Net assets at end of year$3,889,258

Form 990 e-file (XML) FY2024 from the IRS · Classification, formation year and address from the IRS Business Master File

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