2025-09-25T13:29:26-04:00 2025-02-28 990EZ 2024-03-01 473265514 Serenade Love Your Neighbor Nfp SERE 6306435429 215 North West Street Wheaton IL 60187 Jill Roche Executive Director 6306435429 2025-09-26 false 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X X X X non profit 126379 X 126379 0 4379 -4379 0 0 0 122000 54031 3858 16439 128 45921 120377 1623 59160 0 60783 59160 60783 59160 60783 59160 60783 Love Your Neighbor has provided customized essential furnishings using sustainable design solutions to transitioning families at no cost through our main program the House to Home Initiative. This program accepts donated furnishings from the community such as couches chairs rugs bedding and more to furnish these homes in addition to purchasing new sleeping pillows mattress pads and snap together bedframes. The program provides dignity safety and a calm space where local families and individuals residing in DuPage and Kane County can continue to thrive in their journey to self-sufficiency. We work closely with a network of eight social service providers such as Habitat for Humanity Bridge Communities DuPage Pads and more. Our mission is to come alongside these organizations and serve those who are experiencing homelessness those who have survived domestic violence or human trafficking and who have fled their countries of origin The purpose of Love Your Neighbor is to equip peoples houses to become homes and care for one of the most important physiological needs which is shelter. Although many organizations provide services for shelter Love Your Neighbor is set apart because we use sustainable measures community support and a network of incredible volunteers to help our clients feel a sense of empowerment belonging and safety in their own homes. We believe that people cannot fully flourish in their daily lives if they do not first feel safe and comfortable in their own home. Thus Love Your Neighbor fully designs and furnishes the entire space providing all the items that an individual would need to make a house into a home in addition to repairing any minor damages to the home. We work to create a fully functioning space where our clients and their children can work and study in order to further their careers and education. Love Your Neighbor has a streamlined process where we work with our volunteers to furnish and assemble these homes in the most time efficient and quality manner. Love Your Neighbor is a faith-based and woman-owned organization with a clear mission reflected in our name: to love our neighbor regardless of their background or origin. In a world often lacking care connection and compassion our purpose is to be a source of expressing all three through the act of love. In 2017 Habitat for Humanity became our first partner organization and we have since added 9 other organizations including: Bridge Communities DuPage Pads Lifespring Ministries Naomis House Reclaim 13 & Families Helping Families and Family Self Sufficiency Program DuPageTo date over 138 families have been served which includes 443 individuals including children; LYN accepts any clients referred to us and does not discriminate based on race religion ethnicity sexual orientation etc. Of the 138 families served 90% are women and children; Our client base is diverse with 55% identifying as Black 35% as Hispanic and 15% as White. In 2024 LYN hired an Executive Director as well as a part time Program Coordinator. In 2025 we appointed a board member who was a recent recipient of LYN"s services. 10000 0 Nancy Shepherd Founder 40 0 0 0 Chris Shepherd Vice Chair 10 0 0 0 Brian Washkowiak Treasurer 1 0 0 0 Kim Huffman Secretary 1 0 0 0 Mike Olson Board Member 1 0 0 0 Kris Martinez Board Member 1 0 0 0 Jill Roche Executive Director 40 38077 0 0 false false false false false false false false false IL Jill Roche 710 Ranch Rd 215 West St Wheaton IL 60187 6306435429 false false false false false false false false false false false NONE NONE true X 0 0 0 98993 126379 225372 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 98993 126379 225372 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 225372 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 98993 126379 225372 1 1.00 0 0.00 X Whos Your Neighbor Fall Event 57485 57485 0 0 0 600 1915 0 0 Misc Contributions 53539 53539 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 15355 15355 0 0 0 0 1864 0 0 126379 126379 0 0 0 600 3779 0 0 4379 -4379 Part I, line 16 | Other Expenses:, Amount:| These are expenses we incur in running our main program which is House to Home., $45921.00| Expenses (Part I),line 16 | Explanation:| These expenses are supplements to items we provide to our clients that we do not receive in our warehouse as donations. We purchase from various stores thrift stores and online in order to supplement. The average cost to fully furnish a 2 -3 bedroom home or apartment is approximately 8-15 thousand - we spend a fraction of that by re-using items that are donated which also in turn keeps all of this furniture and furnishings out of the landfill. We use approximately 90 percent of donations we receive to furnish our clients homes who are coming with nothing other than their clothes because they are often fleeing domestic violence situations. The money we spend is for items that we dont specifically have at the time for our clients. We serve 25-30 families a year which includes their children Love Your Neighbor hired an accountant to file our EZ990 and we were told misinformation about the filing. I then took over the process but by this time we were late in filing since our due date was July 15. I am working to find a new accountant but needed to file this asap so that is why we are overdue at this point. We apologize and are working to refine this process in our non profit so we appreciate your patience.