Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Community Shelter Services Inc
Community Shelter Services Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,357,525 to it, the largest being United Way of Erie County ($620,909). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Community Shelter Services Inc does
Mission
Provide temporary shelter and food for homeless families and individuals. Also to provide living accomodations through a single resident occupancy program
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community shelter services emergency shelter provides emergency housing for full families including children as well as single women and single men. The Emergency shelter serves between 400 and 600 people annually and is open every day. The rooms are available on a first come first serve basis and the facilities are supervised by professional staff twenty four hours a day. While in shelter, individuals and families are linked with community-based organizations and provided case management which focuses on safety, affordable housing, and financial literacy.
$1,049,177 spent$766,340 earned by the program49% of program spendingCommunity shelter services single room occupancy program is a community-based, affordable housing program that houses over ninety adults in efficiency apartments subsidized by the Erie housing authority. Our two facilities are staffed twenty four hours a day, three hundred sixty five days a year like the Emergency Shelter. Affordability is a critical factor in a person's ability to sustain housing and get a foothold in the community. Community shelter services is able to provide a positive and sustainable living environment for residents through offering affordable housing tailored to the needs of its residents. This program provides residency and networking services as well as access to support services and case management.
$397,796 spent$301,043 earned by the program18% of program spendingCommunity shelter services contracts with Erie County's department of human services to provide homeless prevention and rapid re-housing program which provides financial assistance, financial literacy basics, and case management. The program helps working families stay in their homes and helps those working families that can afford an apartment but have lost their homes, find new homes quickly.
$531,669 spent$351,342 earned by the program25% of program spendingPermanent Housing-The program aids homeless families in their transition between emergency shelter and self sufficiency.
$180,611 spent$113,436 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,159,253.
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 2023 to 2024, from $3.5M to $3.8M (+7%).
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 70% · 2018 58% · 2019 62% · 2020 67% · 2021 65% · 2022 61% · 2023 65% · 2024 26% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of Community Shelter Services Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Diane Lazette
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $256k → $116k.
5 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 Community Shelter Services Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 19 of 21 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
Community Shelter Services Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% 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 Community Shelter Services Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 83% · 2019 78% · 2020 57% · 2021 46% · 2022 32% · 2023 64% — diversifying over time.
“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
55% of Community Shelter Services Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% 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
98% of Community Shelter Services Inc's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $502k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Community Shelter Services Inc's revenue grew 35% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Community Shelter Services Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $448k on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$448k
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 Community Shelter Services 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Community Shelter Services Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Community Shelter Services Inc?
- Community Shelter Services Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,357,525 to it, the largest being United Way of Erie County ($620,909). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Community Shelter Services Inc have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,357,525 in grants to Community Shelter Services Inc, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Community Shelter Services Inc?
- United Way of Erie County is the largest funder on record, with $620,909 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Community Shelter Services Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 21 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing