Our Performance

We fill over 100 beds every night and measure our results against Covenant House benchmarks so funders, partners, and the community can see how we’re doing.

View Covenant House Pennsylvania’s FY26 youth homelessness prevention outcomes and financial performance for Philadelphia and York below.

A male Covenant House staff member counsels a young male Covenant House resident with locs.
A female Covenant House youth with loose blonde hair, stands with folded arms and a slight smile in the doorway of a residence with a Covenant House sign by the door.
Four Covenant House youth talk around a square table.
A youth with locs and a bandana on his head walks out of a Covenant House building wearing a tshirt, shorts, and a messenger bag.
A female Covenant House staff with long braids works in a folder across the desk from a young male Covenant House resident with short black hair.

Who We Serve

We serve young people ages 18-24 whose dreams have been disrupted by homelessness, human trafficking, trauma, intergenerational poverty, and systemic injustices.

89%Identify as BIPOC
62%Cope with mental health challenges
36%History in foster care
30%Domestic violence survivors
23%Identify as LGBTQ
16%Criminal justice history
13%Report substance use
13%Female youth we serve arrive pregnant

Program Outcomes

Housing Stability

The clearest measure of our work is whether a young person leaves our care for stable housing. In FY26, 79% of young people exiting transitional housing left to a stable situation, up from 67% in FY25 and above the 75% benchmark. In permanent housing, 100% of exits were stable, up from 93% and above the 85% benchmark. In short-term housing, where young people are often in acute crisis, 45% of exits were stable against a 50% benchmark, and improving that number is a focus of our strategic plan.

Safety and Satisfaction

In our FY26 youth survey, 85% of young people agreed or strongly agreed that they feel safe at Covenant House, up from 80% in FY25 and at the 85% benchmark. Overall satisfaction with their experience rose from 79% to 94%.

Full Beds, Consistently

Our programs ran at 94% occupancy across all programs in FY26, above the 90% benchmark, with permanent housing at 100%.

Reach

Our residential programs are growing. We served 401 young people in residential housing in FY26, up from 353 in FY25, a 14% increase, and we provided 33,357 nights of housing, up from 31,029.

Our outreach and drop-in services tell a different story this year. In FY25, when those teams were fully staffed, they reached 1,866 and 98 young people. In FY26, they reached 795 and 34. Both services depend on consistent, trusted relationships between staff and young people, and we did not have stable staffing for outreach and drop-in in York this year. Even so, our outreach reach was roughly four times the affiliate median of 192. When our teams are fully staffed, we reach more young people, and the difference shows up immediately.

Across all services, we served 1,204 young people in FY26, above the affiliate median of 961, compared with 2,278 in FY25.

The People Behind Our Outcomes

Our results come from the people who deliver them. Outreach and drop-in show this most clearly: with a steady team, we reached 1,866 young people through outreach in a year, and when staffing was unstable, that number fell to 795. The same is true across our programs. Young people who feel safe, who are satisfied with their experience, and who leave to stable housing are working with staff who know them and stay long enough to build trust. Retaining skilled, mission-driven staff in this field is hard, and the impact of turnover is immediate. That's why investing in our people is central to how we protect and grow these outcomes.

Finances

Covenant House Pennsylvania has returned to financial stability. After operating deficits of about $0.4 million in both FY23 and FY24 and $0.2 million in FY25, our FY26 unaudited results show we are essentially at break-even, meeting the benchmark of "break even or better." Over the past five years, our operating revenue has grown 13% annually while expenses grew 7%, reflecting investment in our programs and growing support from our donors, funders, and partners.

FY26 figures are unaudited.

Where Our Dollars Go

In our FY27 budget, 76 cents of every dollar goes to program services for the young people we serve, 17 cents to administration, and 7 cents to development. These are planned percentages from our board-approved budget.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does Covenant House Pennsylvania do?

We provide housing, outreach, and supportive services to young people ages 18-24 experiencing homelessness and human trafficking in Philadelphia and York.

How many young people does Covenant House Pennsylvania serve?

In FY26, we served 401 young people in residential housing, up from 353 in FY25, and provided 33,357 nights of housing. Across all services, we served 1,204 young people, compared with 2,278 in FY25, with the difference coming from outreach and drop-in services in York, where staffing was not stable.

How effective are Covenant House Pennsylvania's housing programs?

In FY26, 79% of transitional housing exits and 100% of permanent housing exits were to stable situations, both above Covenant House benchmarks.

Is Covenant House Pennsylvania financially stable?

Yes. Our FY26 unaudited results show break-even operations after a five-year trend of improvement, with operating revenue growing faster than expenses.

How does Covenant House Pennsylvania spend its money?

In our FY27 budget, 76% of spending goes to program services, 17% to administration, and 7% to development.

Covenant House Pennsylvania helps young people ages 18-24 move from homelessness and human trafficking to stable housing in Philadelphia and York. To support youth homelessness services in Pennsylvania, you can donate today or learn more about our mission.

Outcome data come from our FY26 Annual Program Dashboard and Organizational Wellness Report. FY26 financial figures are unaudited.