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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

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, 2011, Room's program expenses were:

Homeless Shelter	231,575
Total Program Expenses:	$231,575

Chief Executive : Joann Nowak, OSF, Program Director

Compensation*:

$40,806

Chair of the Board: David Renaud
Chair's Profession / Business Affiliation: Senior Account Executive, Magellan Health Services, Inc.

Board Size: 16

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 $565,478, 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, 2011.

Source of Funds
Contributions - Other	284,162
Grants	160,189
Contributions - Sisters of Divine Providence	65,575
Fundraising	55,552
Interest Income	2,995
Total Income	$568,473

Uses of Funds as a % of Total Expenses

Programs: 72%  Fund Raising: 11%  Administrative: 17%

Total income		$568,473
Program expenses		$231,575
Fund raising expenses		34,700
Administrative expenses		55,885
Total expenses		$322,160
Income in Excess of Expenses		246,313
Beginning net assets		159,959
Ending net assets		406,272
Total liabilities		17,740
Total assets		$424,012