A Mission District nonprofit that San Francisco paid more than $14 million in recent years to distribute groceries and help kids is at risk of losing city funding over serious concerns about its finances, according to city monitors.
Homies Organizing the Mission to Empower Youth was flagged by the controller’s office in a report released Tuesday as one of two city-funded nonprofits that demonstrated “a pattern of severe fiscal or programmatic concerns” last fiscal year.
The controller found that HOMEY had failed to disclose debts, produced dubious financial reports and had no clear plan for resolving its financial issues, records show. Although it acknowledged its cash-flow issues, HOMEY disputed the other findings.
“What upsets me the most is that they are saying we are bad actors,” said HOMEY Executive Director Roberto Alfaro. “That is totally not the case.”
The findings were one aspect of the 44-page annual report, which detailed how the controller sought to hold nonprofits accountable for the $1.63 billion that San Francisco paid them last fiscal year, largely to address homelessness and other systemic issues.