Is it real?
Yes. Never revoked by the IRS. Latest filing on record: FY2025. IRS ruling in Oct 2013.
IRS Pub. 78 · IRS Auto-Revocation List · IRS Business Master File
Where the money goes
59 cents of each dollar spent went to programs.
Form 990 Part IX, line 25. Every line is in By the numbers.
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Who runs it and what they're paid
5 people listed on the 990-EZ.
Paul Cogley’s $48K as Executive Director is at the 78th percentile of top reported officer pay among 202 <$100K 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.
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Programs and updates
Offers safe shelter and personalized support for chronically homeless individuals.
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Provide shelter to our homeless in Western Nevada County: In 2020, the County received CARES funding which was used in a motel program that provided $34,449.24 worth of hotel rooms. We also used received money from CARES EFSP Phase 37 ($2060.22) and Phase 38 ($539) to boost our its Emergency Motel Room program for timely responses to…
Manage cold weather shelter operations for Nevada County in Nevada City.The Sierra Roots Weather Shelter is a program in partnership with Nevada County. The Weather Shelter uses a 30-bed public facility in Nevada City as a temporary shelter venue during extreme weather events.
This year, we received money from HUD (ESG-CV-2), which allowed us to fund Camp Immersion. This is an initiative that takes six chronically homeless individuals at a time, house them in a motel, and teach them to become housing-ready.
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Who pays for it.
From grant filings on record. Receipts are incomplete: individual donors are never listed.
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By the numbers
The FY2025 990-EZ, line by line.
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Filing history
| Year | Money in | Money out | In minus out | Net assets | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 Latest Viewing | $96K | $85K | $11K | $141K | 990 PDF |
| FY2024 | $121K | $130K | 990 PDF | ||
| FY2023 | $129K | $128K | 990 PDF | ||
| FY2022 | $83K | $120K | 990 PDF | ||
| FY2021 | $220K | $204K | $16K | $169K | 990 PDF |
| FY2020 | $294K | $283K | $10K | $152K | 990 PDF |
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Schedules filed Part IV
Form 990 e-file (XML) FY2025 from the IRS · Classification, formation year and address from the IRS Business Master File
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