North Carolina · Nonprofit
SHELTER HEALTH SERVICES INC
SHELTER HEALTH SERVICES INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,437,323 to it, the largest being MERANCAS FOUNDATION INC ($465,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $457k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $102k
What Shelter Health Services Inc does
Mission
To remove health issues as barriers to self-sufficiency and upward mobility for homeless women, and as impediments to development and readiness to learn for homeless children, by providing free healthcare the is easily accessible. For adults, health issues can cause and will prolong homelessness, interrupting job searches and interviews and jeopardizing employment due to health-related absenteeism. For children, health issues can negatively impact development (physical, psychological, emotional, social, behavioral), preparation to enter school and performance in school. Ease of access is fostered by clinic location within the shelter where patients live, convenient hours of Monday through Friday, 8:30 to 5:00pm, all services are free (nursing and provider care, health assessment tests, screens and diagnostic labs, prescription/OTC medications, treatments, health information), prompt walk-in care on the first and subsequent visits, unlimited free visits and services simply by showing th
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
We specialize in providing free healthcare and medical services to homeless women and children that lack access to care due to lacking money, Medicaid and mobility. 85% report income of less than 100% FPL. Fee-for-service, low cost and sliding scale clinics are unaffordable.
$340,958 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $340,958.
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 $221k to $151k (−31%).
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: 2023 25% · 2024 14% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of SHELTER HEALTH SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
David A Pearson MD
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $122k → $133k.
2 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 SHELTER HEALTH SERVICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 24 of 25 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
SHELTER HEALTH SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 58%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
45% 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 SHELTER HEALTH SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 70% · 2019 44% · 2020 27% · 2021 29% · 2022 36% · 2023 49% — 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
56% of SHELTER HEALTH 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
92% of SHELTER HEALTH SERVICES INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $105k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
SHELTER HEALTH SERVICES INC's funding base is broadening — from 7 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SHELTER HEALTH 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 SHELTER HEALTH 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 SHELTER HEALTH SERVICES INC?
- SHELTER HEALTH SERVICES INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,437,323 to it, the largest being MERANCAS FOUNDATION INC ($465,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHELTER HEALTH SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,437,323 in grants to SHELTER HEALTH SERVICES INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHELTER HEALTH SERVICES INC?
- MERANCAS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $465,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHELTER HEALTH SERVICES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 25 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