Vermont · Nonprofit
COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC
COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC (Vermont) receives grants from 109 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,994,993 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,085,880). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 109
- Grants received
- $8.0M
- Net assets
- $20M
What Committee on Temporary Shelter Inc does
Mission
Cots provides emergency shelter, services, and housing for people who are homeless or marginally housed in vermont. Cots advocates for long-term solutions to end homelessness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Individual shelters - the waystation (opened in 1982) is a 36-bed emergency shelter for men and women, ages 18 and older, that provides safe and decent shelter 365 nights a year. The daystation (opened in 1988) is a daytime drop-in center offering refuge from the streets every day from 9am - 5pm.
$1,927,586 spentof which $3,944 as grants40% of program spendingPrevention services - the housing resource center was opened in 2008 and provides housing retention, placement and comprehensive outreach services to homeless and low-income persons. Housing navigation services are a component of prevention services. Cots' housing navigators provide one-on-one services to families and individuals with an intense focus on housing placement and connection to resources to enhance household income. The housing navigators also connect clients to a broad range of federal, state and community resources including government assistance, employment support services, financial literacy, and asset building programs.
$1,326,232 spentof which $70,603 as grants28% of program spendingFamily shelters - the firehouse family shelter (opened in 1988) and main street family shelter (opened in 2002) are the only two family shelters in chittenden county. They provide temporary shelter for 15 families with children.
$967,401 spent20% of program spendingTransitional housing - the smith house opened in 2002 to provide chronically homeless and hardest-to-house individuals moving out of shelters with transitional housing for four to six months. The smith house has seven single-room occupancy units and full-time support personnel. Permanent housing - the wilson hotel (purchased in 1984) and st. John's hall (purchased in 1991) provide 40 single-room occupancy (sro) units and four apartments - permanent housing for formerly homeless as well as low- income senior citizens and veterans. In the renovated 95 north avenue building and as part of a limited partnership ownership interest, cots owns 14 units of permanently affordable housing. Cots has also developed housing in a limited partnership ownership at canal street in winooski (29 units) and at main street (16 units). Motel outreach - during the pandemic, the state of vermont placed a significant number of homeless people in motels across the state. Cots formed a team of outreach workers to address the ongoing, daily needs of this population. Services are similar to those provided by cots housing navigators, and occur onsite at motels primarily in chittenden county. This program is…
$569,336 spentof which $10,393 as grants$399,292 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,790,555.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $15M to $21M (+41%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 32% · 2018 22% · 2019 24% · 2020 23% · 2021 42% · 2022 25% · 2023 26% · 2024 29% · 2025 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Kurt Reichelt
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 25 funders to 46 funders, grant income rose $250k → $1.5M.
20 of 109 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 109 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 39% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
72% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 48% · 2019 46% · 2020 28% · 2021 35% · 2022 33% · 2023 45% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
61% of COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
69% of COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.5M that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from Vermont funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 488 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 488 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $21.1M on record — $1.4M federal, $19.6M state.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$825k
- Department of Veterans Affairs$615k
- Homeless Assistance HOP$7.6M
- Loans$2.9M
- RU-CM Parent/Child$2.3M
- Temp Housing$1.5M
- Emergency Shelter Grants$1.1M
- Supportive Housing Agreements$912k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Canal Street Housing LP · partnership
- 95 North Avenue Limited Partnership · partnership
- Main Street Family Housing LP · partnership
- Cots Veterans Housing Inc · corp_trust
- Cots Housing Inc · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC?
- COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC (Vermont) receives grants from 109 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,994,993 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,085,880). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 109 organizations giving $7,994,993 in grants to COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC, 73 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,085,880 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 109 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing