Homeless Solutions, Inc.
A Hand UP, Not a HandOUT
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Homeless Solutions, Inc.
EIN: 22-2491675
as of September 2024
as of September 09, 2024
Mission
Our mission is to empower those who are homeless and at risk of homelessness in Morris County to attain housing stability. Through comprehensive support, including shelter, affordable housing, and a range of services, we collaborate with individuals and families who are committed to achieving their goal of self-sustainability. Our Philosophy is A Hand Up, not a Handout. As a private, nonprofit organization, Homeless Solutions has been helping the homeless and working poor in our community since 1983. We are unique in what we do. Its not just about providing a warm meal and a place to sleep. Our goal is to give those who we serve the tools and surroundings they need to rebuild their lives and become self-sufficient.
Ruling year
1986
CEO
Dan McGuire
Main address
3 Wing Drive Suite 245
Cedar Knolls, NJ 07927 USA
EIN
22-2491675
Shelter and residential care
Population served
Families
Men and boys
Economically disadvantaged people
Adults
Women and girls
NTEE code
Single Organization Support (L11)
IRS subsection
501(c)(3) Public Charity
IRS filing requirement
This organization is required to file an IRS Form 990 or 990-EZ.
Tax forms
Communication
Affiliations
Programs and results
Reports and documents
Download annual reports Download other documentsWhat we aim to solve
As a private, nonprofit organization, Homeless Solutions has been helping the homeless and working poor in our community since 1983. We are unique in what we do. Its not just about providing a warm meal and a place to sleep. Our goal is to give those who we serve the tools and surroundings they need to rebuild their lives and become self-sufficient - a "hand up, not a handout". What sets our nonprofit apart from others is our Continuum of Housing options including our Emergency Shelter, Transitional Housing Program (THP) for families, Mt. Kemble Home for senior women, Warming Center for street homeless in the winter, HSI Women's Campus for single women in shared housing, and the 74 Affordable Rental Housing units we own and operate. Last year, our programs and services helped over 500 people.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Homeless Solutions, Inc.
HSI offers a unique continuum of housing options:
Our Main Shelter provides 85 beds for multiple programs including Families, Single Women and Single Men. The shelter also includes a Warming Center for street homeless people during the winter months.
Our Transitional Housing Program (THP) has ten furnished apartments that serve as an intermediate step for families whose adult members are working; case managers provide structured support.
Our Family Supportive "Outreach" Program is for our THP graduates. They have the option to receive follow-up supportive services for two years following their exit from THP.
HSI operates the historic Mt. Kemble Home for senior women of limited means (65+ years), providing safe, affordable housing for 22 residents.
Our Women's Campus is a unique shared housing model; eight houses provide permanent housing for 32 homeless and at-risk single women.
HSI also owns and operates 74 Affordable Rental Housing units throughout Morris County.
Family & Single Women's Program
Our 85-bed shelter is designed for short-term stay in dormitory-style living. This program is designed for families and single women. We provide a safe, secure, supportive, drug-and-alcohol-free environment. Our highly structured programs provide goal-oriented Case Management, our Life Skills Curriculum, childcare, linkages to medical care and transportation, and more.
Single Men's Program
Our 85-bed shelter is designed for short-term stay in dormitory-style living. The Men's Shelter Program is focused on homeless men, and provides a safe, secure, supportive, drug-free and alcohol-free environment. Our highly structured programs provide goal-oriented Case Management, our Life Skills Curriculum, childcare, linkages to medical care and transportation, and more.
Transitional Housing Program
The ten 3-bedroom apartments that comprise our Transitional Housing Program facility are home to families whose adult members are employed and working hard to obtain permanent housing. The facility can house up to 60 people for 12-18 months. The program focuses on budgeting and saving to prepare guests to return to independent living, and includes our Life Skills Curriculum and childcare assistance
Mt. Kemble Home
The Mt. Kemble Home provides safe, affordable housing for 22 senior women of very limited means. The home has been in existence for over 130 years and is listed on state and national historic registries. We have performed significant renovations to upgrade and restore the home, including many safety and mobility enhancements.
HSI Women's Campus
The Women's Campus is made up of eight homes with four single bedrooms per home, where residents share communal living spaces like the living area, kitchen and dining room. The campus is for single women who are homeless or at-risk in the community. There is another home dedicated to onsite programming and case management services.
Where we work
Awards
Housing for Everyone Grant 2021
TD Bank Foundation
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of families that graduated from our Transitional Housing Program (THP)
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Economically disadvantaged people
Related Program
Transitional Housing Program
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
THP is home to families whose adult members are working hard to obtain independence and permanent housing.
Number of homeless participants engaged in housing services
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Economically disadvantaged people
Related Program
Homeless Solutions, Inc.
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
People who received shelter and housing through our programs and services.
Number of meals served or provided
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Economically disadvantaged people
Related Program
Homeless Solutions, Inc.
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Meals provided by volunteers to families staying at our shelter.
Percentage of families that graduated from our Transitional Housing Program (THP) who secured permanent, affordable housing
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Economically disadvantaged people
Related Program
Transitional Housing Program
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
THP is home to families whose adult members are working hard to obtain independence and permanent housing.
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Reports and documents
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
At Homeless Solutions, we are aiming to break the cycle of homelessness. It is expensive to live in Morris County. Many of the families in our programs are working two or three minimum wage earning jobs and still cannot afford to pay rent while taking care of their basic needs - like food. They get stuck in a vicious cycle where they're bouncing from shelter to shelter, sleeping on floors, and lacking that sense of security.
Homeless Solutions aims to restore security and self-sufficiency to our participants through our structured programs.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Our organization's key strategies can be found in our Life Skills Curriculum. Our Life Skills Curriculum helps guests get back on their feet by teaching them skills such as money management, resume writing, effective parenting techniques, nutrition, and more. We aim to educate and empower our program participants by identifying what caused their homelessness and giving them the tools they need to get back on their feet, so that they can be independent.
When participants graduate from our program, they are given the opportunity to enroll in HSI's Family Supportive Housing Program, also known as "Outreach". This program provides follow up case management services for two years following their exit from our program. These families can continue to attend educational workshops and participate in the seasonal item distributions. The goal is to ensure that our graduates remain housed and do not cycle back into homelessness.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We offer a range of services to help the people in our program become self-sufficient and not cycle back into homelessness.
Main Shelter: Our 85-bed shelter is designed for short-term stay. It provides a safe, secure, supportive, drug and alcohol free environment. Our highly structured programs provide goal-oriented case management, our Like Skills curriculum, childcare, and more.
THP: Home to families whose adult members are employed and working hard to obtain independence and permanent housing.
Outreach: Provides follow up case management services for two years following participants exit from THP. Our goal is to ensure that they remain housed and do not cycle back into homelessness
Mt. Kemble Home: Provides safe, affordable housing for senior women of limited means
HSI Women's Campus: Provides safe, affordable housing for single women who are homeless or at-risk. The campus is made up of eight homes with four single bedrooms per home, where residents share communal living spaces like the living area, kitchen and dining room.
Affordable Rental Housing Units: Through construction, renovation, and advocacy, our housing development team creates award-winning, environmentally-friendly homes that people can afford.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Over the past 40 years, we have been developing and expanding our Programs and Services to accommodate the increasing demands to help our homeless neighbors in need. We started as a small shelter in the basement of a church helping single men. Today we are the largest provider of homeless services in Morris County and helped over 500 men, women, and children last year.
In addition to our Main Shelter and Transitional Housing, we provide affordable housing. We began our Housing Development in 2004 with 15 apartments, and today we own and operate 74 affordable rental units.
Over the past several years, we expanded our programs to include our Mt. Kemble Home for senior women of limited means and a Warming Center for the street homeless during the winter months providing 1,872 bed nights last year. We recently launched the HSI Women's Campus, a shared housing model for homeless and at-risk single women that includes a campus with eight houses accommodating 32 residents.
We recently completed renovations for our Next Level Shelter Expansion Project that provides twice as much space for a new Kitchen and Dining Room, allowing larger volunteer groups. It will also result in a new permanent Overnight Center with showers and bathrooms and laundry facilities for emergency shelter on both the coldest and hottest nights.
We have a robust history and continue to evolve to accommodate the needs of our community, always with our mission in mind to offer shelter, services, and supportive housing to homeless and low-income people. We are making an impact and helping to break the cycle of homelessness by providing A Hand Up, not a Handout.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
We don't actively use collected feedback
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We act on the feedback we receive
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don’t have the right technology to collect and aggregate feedback efficiently, Staff find it hard to prioritize feedback collection and review due to lack of time, It is difficult to get honest feedback from the people we serve, It is difficult to identify actionable feedback
Financials
Financial documents
Download audited financialsRevenue vs. expenses: breakdown
Liquidity in 2022 info
0.26
Months of cash in 2022 info
4.7
Fringe rate in 2022 info
22%
Funding sources info
Assets & liabilities info
Financial data
Homeless Solutions, Inc.
Balance sheetFiscal Year: Jan 01 - Dec 31
The balance sheet gives a snapshot of the financial health of an organization at a particular point in time. An organization's total assets should generally exceed its total liabilities, or it cannot survive long, but the types of assets and liabilities must also be considered. For instance, an organization's current assets (cash, receivables, securities, etc.) should be sufficient to cover its current liabilities (payables, deferred revenue, current year loan, and note payments). Otherwise, the organization may face solvency problems. On the other hand, an organization whose cash and equivalents greatly exceed its current liabilities might not be putting its money to best use.
Fiscal Year: Jan 01 - Dec 31
This snapshot of Homeless Solutions, Inc.’s financial trends applies Nonprofit Finance Fund® analysis to data hosted by GuideStar. While it highlights the data that matter most, remember that context is key – numbers only tell part of any story.
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| Profitability info | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
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| Unrestricted surplus (deficit) before depreciation | $381,237 | $648,607 | $988,943 | $1,266,876 | -$509,187 |
| As % of expenses | 9.7% | 15.8% | 21.6% | 24.7% | -8.9% |
| Unrestricted surplus (deficit) after depreciation | $12,201 | $230,482 | $532,962 | $788,536 | -$1,051,404 |
| As % of expenses | 0.3% | 5.1% | 10.6% | 14.1% | -16.7% |
| Revenue composition info | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total revenue (unrestricted & restricted) | $4,494,280 | $4,787,433 | $5,359,761 | $6,038,778 | $5,577,132 |
| Total revenue, % change over prior year | 29.8% | 6.5% | 12.0% | 12.7% | -7.6% |
| Program services revenue | 18.5% | 17.1% | 18.3% | 18.1% | 21.6% |
| Membership dues | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Investment income | 2.6% | 2.5% | 2.6% | 2.1% | 2.1% |
| Government grants | 36.0% | 22.7% | 27.5% | 27.6% | 23.6% |
| All other grants and contributions | 42.8% | 47.9% | 52.2% | 52.2% | 52.3% |
| Other revenue | 0.1% | 9.8% | -0.6% | 0.1% | 0.4% |
| Expense composition info | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total expenses before depreciation | $3,910,492 | $4,096,776 | $4,572,768 | $5,124,826 | $5,743,990 |
| Total expenses, % change over prior year | 5.1% | 4.8% | 11.6% | 12.1% | 12.1% |
| Personnel | 68.4% | 69.2% | 66.9% | 61.9% | 62.5% |
| Professional fees | 3.8% | 3.7% | 4.3% | 6.3% | 6.3% |
| Occupancy | 7.0% | 13.0% | 12.8% | 12.9% | 11.1% |
| Interest | 2.4% | 2.3% | 2.4% | 2.0% | 1.7% |
| Pass-through | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| All other expenses | 18.3% | 11.8% | 13.6% | 16.8% | 18.4% |
| Full cost components (estimated) info | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total expenses (after depreciation) | $4,279,528 | $4,514,901 | $5,028,749 | $5,603,166 | $6,286,207 |
| One month of savings | $325,874 | $341,398 | $381,064 | $427,069 | $478,666 |
| Debt principal payment | $246,596 | $0 | $189,629 | $669 | $0 |
| Fixed asset additions | $1,031,732 | $1,658,342 | $0 | $656,792 | $723,369 |
| Total full costs (estimated) | $5,883,730 | $6,514,641 | $5,599,442 | $6,687,696 | $7,488,242 |
Capital structure indicators
| Liquidity info | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Months of cash | 6.7 | 3.4 | 7.6 | 6.8 | 4.7 |
| Months of cash and investments | 14.8 | 11.4 | 15.3 | 14.2 | 11.0 |
| Months of estimated liquid unrestricted net assets | 17.8 | 16.4 | 16.2 | 15.9 | 12.2 |
| Balance sheet composition info | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $2,182,141 | $1,165,149 | $2,897,974 | $2,902,250 | $2,237,935 |
| Investments | $2,644,719 | $2,713,096 | $2,934,873 | $3,145,013 | $3,007,534 |
| Receivables | $441,538 | $1,207,257 | $810,761 | $1,011,049 | $1,069,368 |
| Gross land, buildings, equipment (LBE) | $18,501,950 | $20,126,114 | $20,328,950 | $20,985,742 | $21,709,111 |
| Accumulated depreciation (as a % of LBE) | 27.0% | 26.8% | 28.7% | 30.1% | 31.6% |
| Liabilities (as a % of assets) | 32.9% | 35.3% | 36.5% | 35.2% | 37.7% |
| Unrestricted net assets | $13,794,109 | $14,024,591 | $14,557,553 | $15,346,089 | $14,350,048 |
| Temporarily restricted net assets | $163,058 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Permanently restricted net assets | $0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Total restricted net assets | $163,058 | $92,304 | $88,290 | $79,521 | $69,404 |
| Total net assets | $13,957,167 | $14,116,895 | $14,645,843 | $15,425,610 | $14,419,452 |
Key data checks
| Key data checks info | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Material data errors | No | No | No | No | No |
Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
Documents
CEO
Dan McGuire
CEO Dan McGuire, joined Homeless Solutions' Housing Development division in May 2004 and was named Director in October 2005. In August 2016, he was named CEO of Homeless Solutions, Inc. He has managed neighborhood planning and revitalization efforts and affordable housing projects that have garnered recognition at the state and national levels. Dan's housing development experience includes new and rehabilitated for-sale housing.
Dan has a Master's Degree in City & Regional Planning from Rutgers University and is a graduate of the Housing & Community Development Network's Housing Development Training Program.
Number of employees
Source: IRS Form 990
Homeless Solutions, Inc.
Officers, directors, trustees, and key employeesSOURCE: IRS Form 990
Compensation data
There are no highest paid employees recorded for this organization.
Homeless Solutions, Inc.
Board of directorsas of 03/04/2024
Board of directors data
Diane Mann
Sally Mulligan
Dan McGuire
CEO of HSI
George Goldman
Mary LeBlanc
Diane Mann
Megan Young
DaVon Gorman
Sally Mulligan
Colleen Bondy
Georgia Papathomas
Steve Schroeder
Darla Wilkinson
Ryan Spencer
Ling Yin
Nuris Portuondo
Marc Steinman
Scott Chilson
Nancy R. Davis
James Heck
Elizabeth Vandeveer
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We measure and then disaggregate job satisfaction and retention data by race, function, level, and/or team.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
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