Third Sector Recon | Independent Nonprofit Diligence

CURRENT STUDY · TSR-TBS-001 · NOVEMBER 2026

The Thin Balance Sheet

A comparative study of five New York City homeless services providers operating under Department of Homeless Services contracts, drawn from their filed Forms 990. The measures most often quoted to donors rank these organizations almost at random. Read against the balance sheet, the same returns show which of them can carry the City's payment lag and which cannot.

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homeless services providers under City contract

$634.3M

combined revenue in the latest filed year

4 of 5

ran a deficit in the year reported

86.1%+

of revenue from government at every one of the five, as high as 99.7%

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The Thin Balance Sheet

Five New York City homeless services providers, read from their filed Forms 990.

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