2006 Annual Report

  • Sarah, a 70 year old grandmother, living on a medical disability, adopts three of her grandchildren after her son-in-law and daughter are both convicted of drug violations. For seven years Caritas has provided supplemental food each month (about 75 lbs. of food) to Sarah’s little family. She says, “Its just enough to get us by.”

  • Jose and Maria arrived in Waco shortly before Christmas, 2005. They had come from West Texas where they had been homeless for a couple of months. Jose’s brother, who lives in Waco, had helped them with money to rent an apartment for a couple of months, but they had little else, no food, no furniture, none of the things needed for a household. They had been advised to come to Caritas. Caritas provided, food, clothing for each of them, some household items including thick comforters on which they could sleep. They each found jobs within a few days, and only had to come back to Caritas once more for a little help.

  • June, a 34 year old divorced single mother of two, had lost her teaching job in a nearby community, and although she had, with part-time jobs, been able to pay the mortgage and utility bills, suddenly found her pantry almost completely bare. Caritas provided supplemental food for several months, until June found another teaching job.

Below you will read the statistics for the help which Caritas, in 2006, provided to over 85,000 of your neighbors, giving some of life’s basics. These real people came for help from a variety of ethnic backgrounds and economic situations. Sarah and her family, Jose and Maria, and June and her children, are just three of the real people who stand behind these numbers. Thanks to you, Caritas continues to be the major means in our community whereby those of us who have more than we need, can share with those who just don’t have enough of life’s basics.

EMERGENCY NON CASH ASSISTANCE

FAMILIES SERVED

WEIGHT OF FOOD

WEIGHT BREAD & PASTRY

MEALS

VALUE- BREAD & PASTRIES

20,106

1,791,358 lbs.*

159,762.

1,323,869*

$116,822

RESALE STORE REFERRALS

Caritas distributed through our two resale store locations (Waco and Bellmead), and the Caritas Gifts-In-Kind Program, an estimated $189,767 worth of clothing and household items to 6253 families. Families received the items free of charge.

       EMERGENCY CASH ASSISTANCE

SERVICE PROVIDED

# OF FAMILIES

ASSISTANCE VALUE

ELECTRIC

157

$28267.00

WATER

233

$16685.00

GAS

47

$5188.00

PRESCRIPTIONS

366

  $14,440.00

RENT

29

$5379.00

TRANSPORTATION

20

$1030.00

MISCELLANEOUS

16

$1234.00

TOTAL

868

$71,223.00

 

 

 

TOTALS

PEOPLE SERVED

ASSISTANCE VALUE

NON CASH EMER.

ASSISTANCE

81,666

$2,993,626

EMER. CASH ASSISTANCE

2,604

$71,223.00

TOTALS JAN.- DEC. 2006

84,270**

$3,064,849.00

*America’s Second Harvest estimates that each pound of food equates to 1.25 meals and estimates the
value of food at $1.50 per pound.
**Each family is averaged and counted as a 3 person family.

  • Caritas’ Financial Status: December 31, 2006
    Revenue- Actual Budgeted Expenses-Actual Budgeted
    $985,004* $762,705 $877,686 $788,837
    *Includes $98,408 of assets released from restriction (grants and designated gifts).

  • Caritas’ Gift-In-Kind (GIK)Program
    In June of 2004, Caritas began a partnership with the Waco Walmart Return Center and their vendors/suppliers to distribute some of the returned merchandise to nonprofit social service agencies/organizations. In 2006, the GIK Program received 3,436,044 lbs. of merchandise (primarily paper products, personal hygiene items, household goods, etc.) and distributed 3,075,125 lbs. to over 200 agencies and America’s Second Harvest Food Banks (TX,OK, Missouri).

  • Caritas’ Food Rescue Program
    In 2006 Caritas rescued about 1,610,308 lbs. of food from about 60 different donors each month, and distributed (free of charge) about 1,606,899 lbs.of food to 75 different agencies, churches, organizations, and to the Caritas Food Pantry.

  • Caritas’ Volunteer Program
    In this same period, 3570 volunteers gave 43,294 hrs. of time to Caritas. This resulted in savings to Caritas of $222,916, when calculated at the minimum wage. Believe me, our volunteers are worth much more to us!

Gratefully,


Kenneth Moerbe
Executive Director of Caritas