Shepherds Office Inc.

Schedule O:

“Section B on top of first page: We did not check the Initial Return box in Section B because the initial return we filed was the Form 990-N in 2020. ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 1 - Line 1 Contributions, Gifts, Grants: The Shepherds Office did not host or attend any in-person Local Fundraising Venues or Gaming Events during the year. We did participate in two on-line events called Giving Tuesday and the on-line Giving Day in Delaware called Do More 24 Delaware. In total, we received on-line donations from 909 donors in 2023. There are no fundraising fees for us to participate on-line and there are no event logistics costs and the average individual donation amounts received in 2023 through these on-line platforms was $169 per donor for these on-line platforms. We did mail out Thank you cards to our individual donors. We also received in-kind donations during 2022 of expired can goods and various food and clothing from the public. We do not accept household items or furniture items because we focus on helping the homeless who live outside or outdoors. We included these in-kind donations under ?Love Donations in the Line 1 total. ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. Part 1 - Line 16 OTHER EXPENSES of $145,759 includes the following: Food for Free Meals-Water-Coffee-Meal Container Supplies $41,518, Brown Bag Ministry 18,489, Hygiene needs for guests $2,306, Bus Passes for guests $2,957, Housekeeping & Trash Removal $ 25,171, Clothing/Shoes $ 4,175, Camping Set-Ups/Gear&Tents $ 8,251, Sheltering-Motel moms/group homes $ 13,985, Gloves-Handwarmers-Propane-Buddy Heaters $ 3,831, Bikes-Bike Repairs $ 6,862, Thank You Cards $ 6,233, Logistics, Yard set up & Storage $12,061, .................. TOTAL OTHER EXPENSES: $ 145,759 ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. Part 3 - Line 28 Program Service Accomplishments: The Shepherds Office is open every day. We are also open on Sunday and we have a Sunday Church Service at Noon for the homeless or hungry and then a Free Lunch at 1 PM every Sunday. Our location has a lot of visibility. We are well known in our Georgetown community. We are close to the local psychiatric hospital, the Federally Qualified Health Center, the nearby state prison and the local State Service Center. We see a lot of poverty and despair and our local grassroots volunteer team serves on the front lines of untreated mental illness, hunger, homelessness, loneliness, unemployment, severe addiction. We focus our attention on those who live outdoors in the Georgetown, DE area. We also serve motel moms and car dwellers who are the invisible homeless. Each month over 2023, we gave out over 2,500 Free Homemade meals every month. Each hot meal is home made and is sealed inside a white Styrofoam Clam Shell Container. With each hot meal, we also provide a Brown Bag packed with bottled water, apple sauce, crackers, peanut butter, jelly sandwich and other individually packaged snacks, some are homemade cookies or brownies when donated by our many volunteers. We have Free Dinners on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 4 pm to 5:30 PM, on Saturdays we have a Free Breakfast at 9 am and on Sundays we have a Free Lunch at 1 PM. In addition, we provide Free Clothing, Water Bottles, Free Coffee, Free Hot Cocoa, Free Wi-Fi, and a Free Mailing Address. We provide Camping Gear”