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| (i) Name of supported organization | (ii) EIN | (iii) Type of organization (described on lines 1- 10 above (see instructions)) | (iv) Is the organization listed in your governing document? | (v) Amount of monetary support (see instructions) | (vi) Amount of other support (see instructions) | |
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Calendar year (or fiscal year beginning in) ![]() |
(a) 2015 | (b) 2016 | (c) 2017 | (d) 2018 | (e) 2019 | (f) Total | |
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| 1 | Gifts, grants, contributions, and membership fees received. (Do not include any "unusual grant.") .. | 149,758 | 182,180 | 152,627 | 270,897 | 447,915 | 1,203,377 |
| 2 | Tax revenues levied for the organization's benefit and either paid to or expended on its behalf.... | ||||||
| 3 | The value of services or facilities furnished by a governmental unit to the organization without charge.. | ||||||
| 4 | Total. Add lines 1 through 3 | 149,758 | 182,180 | 152,627 | 270,897 | 447,915 | 1,203,377 |
| 5 | The portion of total contributions by each person (other than a governmental unit or publicly supported organization) included on line 1 that exceeds 2% of the amount shown on line 11, column (f).. | 23,678 | |||||
| 6 | Public support. Subtract line 5 from line 4. | 1,179,699 | |||||
Calendar year
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(a) 2015 | (b) 2016 | (c) 2017 | (d) 2018 | (e) 2019 | (f) Total | |
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| 7 | Amounts from line 4.. | 149,758 | 182,180 | 152,627 | 270,897 | 447,915 | 1,203,377 |
| 8 | Gross income from interest, dividends, payments received on securities loans, rents, royalties and income from similar sources... | 2,613 | 2,532 | 2,910 | 3,976 | 206 | 12,237 |
| 9 | Net income from unrelated business activities, whether or not the business is regularly carried on.. | ||||||
| 10 | Other income. Do not include gain or loss from the sale of capital assets (Explain in Part VI.).. | 8,891 | 15,534 | 13,802 | 12,240 | 50,467 | |
| 11 | Total support. Add lines 7 through 10 | 1,266,081 | |||||
Calendar year (or fiscal year beginning in) ![]() |
(a) 2015 | (b) 2016 | (c) 2017 | (d) 2018 | (e) 2019 | (f) Total | |
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| 1 | Gifts, grants, contributions, and membership fees received. (Do not include any "unusual grants.") . | ||||||
| 2 | Gross receipts from admissions, merchandise sold or services performed, or facilities furnished in any activity that is related to the organization's tax-exempt purpose | ||||||
| 3 | Gross receipts from activities that are not an unrelated trade or business under section 513 ..... | ||||||
| 4 | Tax revenues levied for the organization's benefit and either paid to or expended on its behalf... | ||||||
| 5 | The value of services or facilities furnished by a governmental unit to the organization without charge | ||||||
| 6 | Total. Add lines 1 through 5 | ||||||
| 7a | Amounts included on lines 1, 2, and 3 received from disqualified persons | ||||||
| b | Amounts included on lines 2 and 3 received from other than disqualified persons that exceed the greater of $5,000 or 1% of the amount on line 13 for the year. | ||||||
| c | Add lines 7a and 7b.. | ||||||
| 8 | Public support. (Subtract line 7c from line 6.) | ||||||
Calendar year (or fiscal year beginning in) ![]() |
(a) 2015 | (b) 2016 | (c) 2017 | (d) 2018 | (e) 2019 | (f) Total | |
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| 9 | Amounts from line 6... | ||||||
| 10a | Gross income from interest, dividends, payments received on securities loans, rents, royalties and income from similar sources.. | ||||||
| b | Unrelated business taxable income (less section 511 taxes) from businesses acquired after June 30, 1975. | ||||||
| c | Add lines 10a and 10b. | ||||||
| 11 | Net income from unrelated business activities not included in line 10b, whether or not the business is regularly carried on. | ||||||
| 12 | Other income. Do not include gain or loss from the sale of capital assets (Explain in Part VI.) .. | ||||||
| 13 | Total support. (Add lines 9, 10c, 11, and 12.).. | ||||||
| Section A - Adjusted Net Income | (A) Prior Year |
(B) Current Year (optional) |
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| 1 | Net short-term capital gain | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Recoveries of prior-year distributions | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Other gross income (see instructions) | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Add lines 1 through 3 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Depreciation and depletion | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Portion of operating expenses paid or incurred for production or collection of gross income or for management, conservation, or maintenance of property held for production of income (see instructions) | 6 | ||||
| 7 | Other expenses (see instructions) | 7 | ||||
| 8 | Adjusted Net Income (subtract lines 5, 6 and 7 from line 4) | 8 | ||||
| Section B - Minimum Asset Amount | (A) Prior Year |
(B) Current Year (optional) |
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| 1 | Aggregate fair market value of all non-exempt-use assets (see instructions for short tax year or assets held for part of year): | 1 | ||||
| a | Average monthly value of securities | 1a | ||||
| b | Average monthly cash balances | 1b | ||||
| c | Fair market value of other non-exempt-use assets | 1c | ||||
| d | Total (add lines 1a, 1b, and 1c) | 1d | ||||
| e |
Discount claimed for blockage or other factors (explain in detail in Part VI): |
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| 2 | Acquisition indebtedness applicable to non-exempt use assets | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Subtract line 2 from line 1d | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Cash deemed held for exempt use. Enter 1-1/2% of line 3 (for greater amount, see instructions). | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Net value of non-exempt-use assets (subtract line 4 from line 3) | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Multiply line 5 by .035 | 6 | ||||
| 7 | Recoveries of prior-year distributions | 7 | ||||
| 8 | Minimum Asset Amount (add line 7 to line 6) | 8 | ||||
| Section C - Distributable Amount | Current Year | |||||
| 1 | Adjusted net income for prior year (from Section A, line 8, Column A) | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Enter 85% of line 1 | 2 | ||||
| 3 | Minimum asset amount for prior year (from Section B, line 8, Column A) | 3 | ||||
| 4 | Enter greater of line 2 or line 3 | 4 | ||||
| 5 | Income tax imposed in prior year | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Distributable Amount. Subtract line 5 from line 4, unless subject to emergency temporary reduction (see instructions) | 6 | ||||
| Section D - Distributions | Current Year | |
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| 1 Amounts paid to supported organizations to accomplish exempt purposes | ||
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2
Amounts paid to perform activity that directly furthers exempt purposes of supported organizations, in excess of income from activity |
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| 3 Administrative expenses paid to accomplish exempt purposes of supported organizations | ||
| 4 Amounts paid to acquire exempt-use assets | ||
| 5 Qualified set-aside amounts (prior IRS approval required) | ||
| 6 Other distributions (describe in Part VI). See instructions | ||
| 7Total annual distributions. Add lines 1 through 6. | ||
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Distributions to attentive supported organizations to which the organization is responsive (provide details in Part VI). See instructions |
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| 9 Distributable amount for 2019 from Section C, line 6 | ||
| 10 Line 8 amount divided by Line 9 amount | ||
| Section E - Distribution Allocations (see instructions) |
(i) Excess Distributions |
(ii) Underdistributions Pre-2019 |
(iii) Distributable Amount for 2019 |
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| 1 Distributable amount for 2019 from Section C, line 6 | ||||
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Underdistributions, if any, for years prior to 2019 (reasonable cause required-- explain in Part VI). See instructions. |
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| 3 Excess distributions carryover, if any, to 2019: | ||||
| a From 2014....... | ||||
| b From 2015....... | ||||
| c From 2016....... | ||||
| d From 2017....... | ||||
| e From 2018....... | ||||
| fTotal of lines 3a through e | ||||
| g Applied to underdistributions of prior years | ||||
| h Applied to 2019 distributable amount | ||||
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Carryover from 2014 not applied (see instructions) |
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| j Remainder. Subtract lines 3g, 3h, and 3i from 3f. | ||||
| 4Distributions for 2019 from Section D, line 7: | ||||
| $ | ||||
| a Applied to underdistributions of prior years | ||||
| b Applied to 2019 distributable amount | ||||
| c Remainder. Subtract lines 4a and 4b from 4. | ||||
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5
Remaining underdistributions for years prior to 2019, if any. Subtract lines 3g and 4a from line 2. If the amount is greater than zero, explain in Part VI. See instructions. |
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6
Remaining underdistributions for 2019. Subtract lines 3h and 4b from line 1. If the amount is greater than zero, explain in Part VI. See instructions. |
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7 Excess distributions carryover to 2020. Add lines 3j and 4c. |
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| 8 Breakdown of line 7: | ||||
| a Excess from 2015..... | ||||
| b Excess from 2016..... | ||||
| c Excess from 2017..... | ||||
| d Excess from 2018..... | ||||
| e Excess from 2019..... | ||||
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| Part I, Line 1 - Mission | IHN-ML's mission is to enable volunteers from local congregations and the broader community to provide compassion and temporary shelter for homeless families. IHN's programs and services connect the families to community resources, empowering them to achieve and maintain affordable housing. |
| Part III, Line 4a | 1992 a group of concerned citizens launched IHN-ML by sheltering its first family, a mother, and two daughters, through a network of local congregations committed to serving neighbors experiencing homelessness. Built from the nationally proven Interfaith Hospitality Network program model (now called Family Promise), IHN-ML continues to empower Montgomery County, PA families through community-based partnerships that include over 600 volunteers and 24 local congregations who provide emergency shelter. IHN-ML continues its mission to enable volunteers from local congregations and the broader community to provide compassion and temporary shelter for homeless families. IHN-ML's programs and services connect the families to community resources, empowering them to achieve and maintain affordable housing. IHN-ML continues to serve the most vulnerable families of our community with the goal of increasing their long term economic and housing stability. Thus helping family homelessness to be rare, brief, and nonrecurring. IHN-ML is a member organization of the Montgomery County Your Way Home collaborative. This collective impact model coordinates care through a central referral system and shared outcome measures. IHN-ML's model is unique, in that we utilize the collective effort of volunteers and church congregations for the evening sheltering of the families. We can also accommodate families of various compositions, such as multi-generational households, households with teenage males and/or adult children, single-parent females, or males. IHN-ML households are 100% low income according to HUD definition. 90% are extremely low income at the time of intake. Homelessness is traumatic for the entire family; it is particularly traumatic for children who often bear the brunt of precarious housing and the fears of an unpredictable future. Children in homeless families face potentially devastating developmental, social, and academic consequences. IHN-ML's overall goal is to end homelessness for each participant family we aim to keep families intact and reduce the harms on children so they can thrive. Our unique, trauma-informed approach combines the stability of emergency shelter and the benefits of intensive case management services to empower 14-16 families annually (approximately 50 individuals) to re-gain housing within 90 days and ultimately reach economic self-sufficiency by continuing to access a vast network of stabilizing community supports as needed. Emergency Shelter: Twelve host congregations provide private sleeping accommodations for a week at a time, on a rotating schedule. With volunteer support from 14 additional congregations, a daily dinner is served alongside compassionate, warm companionship. On any given week, 40 to 60 volunteers provide critical resources and time for our programming. In FY19-20, volunteers provided over 13,000 hours of service. Mornings and evenings, our Transportation Manager drives families in our agency van to and from our host congregations and Day Center, located in the heart of Norristown and centrally located to numerous social services and public transportation. The Day Center serves as "home base and includes access to laundry facilities and showers, a locked storage area for personal belongings, a kitchen, a computer with Internet access for parents to search for housing and employment and children to complete homework, and a backyard play space. Intensive Case Management: All adults receive on-going, person-centered case management at the Day Center. Central to case management is each family's Housing Stability Plan, which employs Housing First best practices. It includes support necessary to achieving and maintaining housing, such as employment, child care, transportation, and health care. A team approach is utilized, consisting of close collaboration between the participant, our program manager, Your Way Home's Housing Resource Center staff, and case managers from other stabilizing community resources. The goal is to improve awareness of, and connectivity to community supports so families can recognize the resources they have and confidently access them well beyond their stay in the emergency shelter. This work dramatically improves their economic self-sufficiency and long-term stability. Further, families take goal-directed steps while in residence to increase their income; when they exit, they receive short term financial support to bridge potential wage gaps. Organizational response to Covid-19: FY19-20, Covid-19 severely impacted IHN-ML and the community. In early March, IHN-ML pivoted its programing by sheltering families in place at the Day Center and 3rd-floor apartment in Norristown. Host congregations closed their doors due to the pandemic shifting our evening operations to full-time at the Day Center and 3rd-floor apartment. Sheltering in place allowed each family to have their own private space while still receiving in-person intensive case management. Outcome and utilization numbers are slightly lower than anticipated for the year due to the pandemic. COVID-19 also impacted the opportunities available to our current families to reach outcomes, and our graduate families faced dire circumstances that could thwart their gains. While we continued to provide emergency shelter services, we grew increasingly concerned about our recent graduate families. Under "normal circumstances," recently housed families remain vulnerable to a housing crisis as they work to increase their income and build their assets. It often takes several years for families to become housing stable. Today, more and more families are slipping further into poverty or poverty for the first time, due to lost wages; our graduate families are particularly at risk. To support these families, IHN-ML launched a Graduate Self-Sufficiency Program in March of 2020. Seven families enrolled for a total of 21 people. Services include on-going case management sessions via phone or video conference to ensure housing retention, connectivity to community resources, and advancements toward educational and employment goals; emergency temporary financial assistance for rent, utilities, and non-food products that SNAP doesn't cover; and supplemental food. All but one of our enrolled families initially lost their income by the end of March or had significantly reduced wages. Since the beginning of May 2020, 3 households returned to work stabilizing income. For families with younger children, there had been little hope of accepting any job they may be able to find because childcare is lacking; other families are particularly vulnerable to the health risks of working because of medically compromised family members. All of our graduate families are extremely vulnerable to terminations for utilities and eviction if they cannot pay back what is owed during the current, temporary stay on evictions and utility shut-offs. Our Graduate Self-Sufficiency Program is an essential service that provides an extended safety-net so families can maintain their stability and avoid a repeat housing crisis. We expect the county shelter system to become quickly overwhelmed once eviction and utility shut-offs resume. Our Graduate Self-Sufficiency Program diverts these families from an over-extended shelter system, mitigates homelessness's trauma, and keeps families on a path towards long-term self-sufficiency. Organizational Outcomes: In FY 2019-2020, our comprehensive programming served nine families, consisting of 31 individuals (11 adults, 20 children). Of these nine families, seven households graduated, and two remain in the program. Of our seven graduating families, four were rapidly re-housed to affordable housing. They remain in their apartments to date. Two households increased daily living skills and rebuilt family relationships to return to a family permanently; one household entered a transitional housing program for the next two years. Additionally, 58% of the families that left the program increased their income during program stay while 42% maintained their income during their stay. Since leaving 100% of the families have had income increases. 100% of the families that left the program were connected to two or more community resources and benefit assistance that will support long-term stability and economic self-sufficiency, including WIC, SNAP, food pantries, health services, and employment services, among others. |
| Part III, Line 4a (continuation) | Of the two households that remain in the program, 100% have increased income. 100% of households remaining in the program were connected and now receiving two or more community resources and benefits. 100% remaining households have been connected to next step housing resources and have a housing stability plan in place. The average length of stay in the IHN-ML program was 104 days. Women head all nine households, and 2 of those households were youth age (18-24). Three heads of households reported Mental Health diagnosis, three heads of household chronic health issues, one head of household reported drug and alcohol issues past and present. One child in a household has a severe physical disability. During FY 2019-2020, IHN-ML accomplished several goals on the strategic plan. Our strategic plan will guide growth efforts over the next two years to deepen our impact in the community. Specific objectives of the plan include: 1. Implement a static shelter model, 2. Advance evaluation methods, 3. Launch new services to deepen our impact, including housing diversion counseling and aftercare services, 4. Improve communication with partnering congregations and the community at large, 5. Increase fundraising efforts, 6. Improve organizational capacity through leadership development, and 7. Embody equity and inclusion at all levels of the organization. The Board and IHN-ML staff attend professional meetings to build on best practices and stay current on trends. Staff participated in Montgomery County's Learning Community quarterly, the Annual Your Way Home Summit, Leadership development programs, and monthly organizational collaborative meetings, to name a few. The Board has participated in the Family Promise webinars, Zoom meetings, Learning Community, and special events. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11b | The Form 990 receives a thorough review by the organization's Executive Director and Treasurer prior to filing. An electronic copy of the final return is provided to the full Board. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12c | The Executive Director monitors the conflict of interest policy on a regular basis throughout the year. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 15 | The Finance Committee establishes the Executive Director's annual compensation using all necessary data to set a fair and appropriate salary for the tomp management official in an agency the size and complexity of IHN-ML. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 18 | The Organization makes its Form 1023 and 990 available for public inspection upon request. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 | The Organization makes its governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements available to the public upon request. |
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