Pads to Hope Inc.
Pads to Hope Inc.
Palatine IL | IRS ruling year: 1995 | EIN: 36-3919018
Organization Mission
TO INDIVIDUALLY ASSESS AND SERVE THE HOMELESS AND NEAR HOMELESS; WHILE BROADENING COMMUNITY AWARENESS AND INVOLVEMENT WITH THE HOMELESS
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Palatine IL | IRS ruling year: 1995 | EIN: 36-3919018
Organization Mission
TO INDIVIDUALLY ASSESS AND SERVE THE HOMELESS AND NEAR HOMELESS; WHILE BROADENING COMMUNITY AWARENESS AND INVOLVEMENT WITH THE HOMELESS
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This charity's score is 99%, earning it a Four-Star rating. If this organization aligns with your passions and values, you can give with confidence.
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Elizabeth Nabors, Executive Director
$104,387
Paul Adamczyk, Treasurer
Compensation not entered
Margaret Brueck, Board Member
Compensation not entered
Anthony Butler, Board President
Compensation not entered
Cliff Cadle, Board Member
Compensation not entered
Source: IRS Form 990 (page 7), filing year 2022
Below are some key data points from the Exempt Organization IRS Business Master File (BMF) for this organization. Learn more about the BMF on the IRS website
Foundation Status:
Organization which receives a substantial part of its support from a governmental unit or the general public 170(b)(1)(A)(vi) (BMF foundation code: 15)
Affiliation:
Independent - the organization is an independent organization or an independent auxiliary (i.e., not affiliated with a National, Regional, or Geographic grouping of organizations). (BMF affiliation code: 3)
The Form 990 is a document that nonprofit organizations file with the IRS annually. We leverage finance and accountability data from it to form Encompass ratings. Click here to search for this organization's Forms 990 on the IRS website (if any are available). Simply enter the organization's name (Pads to Hope Inc.) or EIN (363919018) in the 'Search Term' field.
Score
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Program
PADS Emergency Shelter Program
Activities
The nonprofit provides people experiencing homelessness with a temporary place to stay.
Program Type
Emergency Shelter
Beneficiaries Served
People experiencing homelessness, people living in poverty, adults
Program Geography
JOURNEYS' service area includes 37 communities in north and northwest Cook County. Some of the cities and towns are Arlington Heights, Barrington, Barrington Hills, Bartlett, Bensenville, Buffalo Grove, Deerfield, Deer Park, and Des Plaines.
Time Period of Data
7/1/20 to 6/30/21
Outcomes: Changes in the lives of those served by a nonprofit. They can be caused by the nonprofit.
Costs: The money spent by a nonprofit and its partners and beneficiaries.
Impact: Outcome caused by a nonprofit relative to its cost.
Cost-effectiveness: A judgment as to whether the cost was a good use of resources to cause the outcome.
Outcome Metric
A night of shelter for a person experiencing homelessness
Outcome Data Source
Ratings are based on data the nonprofit itself collects on its work. We use the most recent year with sufficient data. Typically, this data allows us to calculate direct changes in participants' lives, such as increased income.
Outcome data collected during the program. The nonprofit submitted data on nights of shelter provided.
Method for Attributing Outcomes
We don't know if the observed changes were caused by the nonprofit's program or something else happening at the same time (e.g., a participant got a raise). To determine causation, we take the outcomes we observe and subtract an estimate of the outcomes that would have happened even without the program (i.e., counterfactual outcomes).
We assume that the provision of shelter by one nonprofit does not diminish the provision of shelter by any other (neighboring) nonprofit. We also assume there is, in general, no slack capacity in the homeless shelter system. In the absence of a given shelter, beneficiaries would not be able to stay at another shelter because other shelters are assumed to have no beds to spare. We therefore set the counterfactual to zero.
Cost Data Source
After estimating the program's outcomes, we need to determine how much it cost to achieve those outcomes. All monetary costs are counted, whether they are borne by a nonprofit service deliverer or by the nonprofit’s public and private partners.
Program cost data reported by the nonprofit. Partner and beneficiary costs reported by the nonprofit or estimated by Charity Navigator.
Cost Calculation
$978,796 program costs + $0 partner costs + $0 beneficiary costs = $978,796 total costs
We calculate impact, defined as the change in outcomes attributable to a program divided by the cost to achieve those outcomes.
Impact Calculation
$978,796 total costs / 37,777 nights of shelter provided = roughly $30 provides a night of shelter to a person experiencing homelessness. [2021 USD]
Benchmark for Rating
Impact & Results scores of emergency shelters are based on the cost of providing a night of shelter relative to the Fair Market Rent in that county. Programs receive an Impact & Results score of 100 if they are less than 200% the Fair Market Rent and a score of 80 if they are less than 400%. If a nonprofit reports impact but doesn't meet the benchmark for cost-effectiveness, it earns a score of 65.
Determination
Highly cost-effective
Score
This beacon provides an assessment of the organization's culture and connectedness to the community it serves.
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30% of beacon score
This organization reported that it is collecting feedback from the constituents and/or communities it serves. The methodology leveraged for Constituent Feedback is based on The Core Principles of Constituent Feedback, which describes listening and responding well to feedback. Charity Navigator participates in a consortium with other feedback experts and leading nonprofit infrastructure platforms to drive Constituent Feedback's advancement, promotion, and data collection.
How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve
What challenges does your organization face in collecting feedback from the people you serve?
We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback
70% of beacon score
This organization's score of 87 is a passing score. The organization reported that it is implementing 8 Equity Practices.
This assessment demonstrates the importance of implementing practices that contribute positively to an organization's overall culture, both internally and with respect to community engagement. Furthermore, equity centered frameworks and similar approaches have drawn much attention from donors, experts, and sector leaders who underscore its value to the nonprofit's overall health and capacity for mission success. Currently, the Equity Strategies Checklist assessment consists of practices and policies that promote racial equity in their operations and programs (per the Equity Strategies checklist administered by Candid). As we refine our DEI assessment, Charity Navigator partners with DEI consultants and field experts to broaden and deepen this work.
Equity Practices (5/7) | |
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 analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization/'s programs, portfolios, and the populations served. | |
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 disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured | |
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. |
Equity Policies and Procedures (3/7) | |
We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity. | |
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 have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board. | |
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. |
Score
This beacon provides an assessment of the organization's leadership capacity, strategic thinking and planning, and ability to innovate or respond to changes in constituent demand/need or other relevant social and economic conditions to achieve the organization's mission.
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The nonprofit organization presents evidence of strategic thinking through articulating the organization's mission
TO INDIVIDUALLY ASSESS AND SERVE THE HOMELESS AND NEAR HOMELESS; WHILE BROADENING COMMUNITY AWARENESS AND INVOLVEMENT WITH THE HOMELESS
The nonprofit organization presents evidence of strategic thinking through articulating the organization’s vision.
JOURNEYS | The Road Home is a nationally recognized agency for leading its local communities in prov
Source: Nonprofit submitted responses
The nonprofit organization presents evidence of strategic thinking and goal setting through sharing their most important strategic goals.
Goal One: The goal of our PADS Shelter Program is to provide immediate overnight shelter for individuals.
Goal Type: This goal reflects our commitment to further our advocacy work for our organization and or cause area.
Goal Two: The goal of the HOPE Day Center is to coordinate supplemental, supportive social services for clients to assist them on their paths to housing stability.
Goal Type: This goal reflects our commitment to further our advocacy work for our organization and or cause area.
Goal Three: The goal of the Pathway Housing Readiness Program is to provide a steppingstone to long-term housing stability for clients.
Goal Type: This goal reflects our commitment to further our advocacy work for our organization and or cause area.
The nonprofit provides evidence of investment in leadership development
Describe an investment in leadership
Leadership development is encouraged as soon as one joins the agency. Staff can attend informational and educational webinars in order to further their knowledge of their role so they can become better leaders at JOURNEYS. Additionally, the agency holds monthly meetings for all staff to come together and talk of how they are performing that month. This is where staff have the ability to voice their thoughts and listen to any announcements the agency has for the coming month, offering the opportunity for staff to learn new tactics and strategies. JOURNEYS also awards great leaders with raises and/or new positions in the agency after seeing them succeed in their roles. Overall, JOURNEYS invests in leadership development through conversation, education, and motivation.
The nonprofit provides evidence of leadership through focusing externally and mobilizing resources for the mission.
This organization mobilizes for mission in the following ways:
Strategic Partnerships
Networks of Collective Impact Efforts
Thought Leadership
Raising Awareness
Community Building
What are this organization’s external mobilizaton efforts?
JOURNEYS partners with the Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook County, and we are a member of the Association of Homeless Advocates for the North/Northwest District of Cook County. Free onsite medical and prescription services for our clients are provided through a partnership with the Heartland Health Outreach. Additionally, our agency continues to form and maintain meaningful partnerships with local groups and individuals that regularly provide food donations and volunteer hours to support the HOPE Center. JOURNEYS has created a diverse funding stream. This includes: individual donors, local governments, county governments, corporate foundations, corporate match programs, service clubs, faith communities, private foundations, and fundraising events. The state and federal governments also provide funding and support. The agency employs grant writers to seek out and apply for a variety of funding opportunities.
The nonprofit has an opportunity to tell the story of how the organization adapted to tremendous external changes in the last year.
With the pandemic still in full force, JOURNEYS has remained flexible and adamant on providing the accessibility needed for all clients to receive its services. At the beginning of the pandemic, JOURNEYS was forced to adapt its shelter and supportive services in order to protect clients, staff, and volunteers from contracting the virus. This involved shutting down the PADS sites, creating appointment-only and mobile services at the HOPE Center, and placing clients in local hotels. JOURNEYS was the first agency in its region to use hotels as a source of shelter, and the agency has continued providing supportive services to these clients at the HOPE Center. Currently, a handful of PADS sites are opening up again, and to support these shelter sites, the Hotel Shelter Program will continue to shelter clients until deemed unnecessary. The Mobile Meal Program is also still in effect, transporting donated meals to the clients housed in the hotels. These two programs were formed because of the pandemic, and they continue to spread hope and comfort to those who are unhoused or at-risk of homelessness. Overall, last year gave JOURNEYS The Road Home an opportunity to grow, and while the world is constantly changing in these uncertain times, the agency will continue to adapt for its clients.
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