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Name:	Room at the Inn
Address:	3415 Bridgeland Drive
	Bridgeton, MO 63044-2604
Phone:	314-209-9198 314-209-9181
Web Address:	www.roomstl.org
Also known as: Providence Ministry Corporation

Room at the Inn (Room) meets the 20 Standards for Charity Accountability.

Room at the Inn is a comprehensive, emergency shelter for homeless women and families in St. Louis County, Missouri. It provides safe, immediate shelter, food, shower and laundry facilities, telephone, fax, mail, computer and Internet access, transportation, personal supplies and referral to social services for up to 20 people per day, mostly children and their mothers or single women. Room at the Inn is open 24 hours per day, seven days per week, 365 days per year. In addition to meeting their physical needs, it provides a stabilizing support system and access to services designed to help clients identify and correct the underlying root-cause issues that may be contributing to their homelessness. This is an important first step in changing behaviors that trap families in a perpetuating cycle of homelessness. Room at the Inn has two major goals: 1. Supply the client's emergency shelter needs 2. Help clients regain self-sufficiency as quickly as possible It offers three interconnected programs: 1) Our Sheltering Program provides emergency shelter for homeless women and families. 2) The Client Self-Reliance Program is designed to help clients move beyond homelessness. 3) Our Homelessness Prevention Program helps clients and former clients get into, or stay in, housing and prevents a relapse into another episode of homelessness. Room at the Inn typically serves 200-225 people per year. Clients are extremely poor: 18% of our clients had no income when they entered the shelter and the average income is only 37% of the Department of Health & Human Services Poverty Guideline.

For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2009, Room's program expenses were:

Homeless Shelter	234,123
Total Program Expenses:	$234,123

Chief Executive : Joann Nowak, OSF, Program Director

Compensation*:

$41,312

Chair of the Board: Rose Mary Green
Chair's Profession / Business Affiliation: Educator, Missouri State University

Board Size: 15

Paid Staff Size: 5

*Compensation includes annual salary and, if applicable, benefit plans, expense accounts, and other allowances.

Method(s) Used:

direct mail, invitations to fund raising events, print advertisements, radio, grant proposals, internet, cause-related marketing

Fund raising costs were 6% of related contributions. (Related contributions, which totaled $333,202, are donations received as a result of fund raising activities.)

This organization is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is eligible to receive contributions deductible as charitable donations for federal income tax purposes.

The following information is based on Room's audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2009.

Source of Funds
Contributions	210,108
Grants	90,316
Fundraising Events	32,778
Interest	2,409
Total Income	$335,611

Uses of Funds as a % of Total Expenses

Programs: 75%  Fund Raising: 7%  Administrative: 18%

Total income				$335,611
	Program expenses			$234,123
	Fund raising expenses			20,457
	Administrative expenses			56,693
Total expenses				$311,273
Income in Excess of Expenses				24,338
Beginning net assets				97,118
Ending net assets				121,456
Total liabilities				14,273
Total assets				$135,729