Is it real?
Yes. Never revoked by the IRS. Latest filing on record: FY2024. IRS ruling in Dec 2019.
IRS Pub. 78 · IRS Auto-Revocation List · IRS Business Master File
Who runs it and what they're paid
3 people listed on the 990-EZ.
Shelley Jensen’s $9K as CEO is at the 1st percentile of top reported officer pay among 2037 $1–10M housing 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 affordable housing and life skills training to young people facing homelessness.
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Who pays for it.
From grant filings on record. Receipts are incomplete: individual donors are never listed.
Grants
By the numbers
The FY2020 990-EZ, line by line.
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Filing history
| Year | Money in | Money out | In minus out | Net assets | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024 Latest | $1.7M | $695K | $1.0M | $2.6M | 990 PDF |
| FY2023 | $674K | $561K | $113K | $1.6M | 990 PDF |
| FY2022 | $810K | $323K | $486K | $1.5M | 990 PDF |
| FY2021 | $861K | $119K | $743K | $920K | 990 PDF |
| FY2020 Viewing | $169K | $157K | 990 PDF |
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Schedules filed Part IV
Form 990 e-file (XML) FY2020 from the IRS · Classification, formation year and address from the IRS Business Master File
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