Advocates Against Family Violence

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
141866709
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Caldwell, ID, USA
Phone
2084596330
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Family Violence Shelters

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,889,428
Expenses
$2,853,619
Assets
$6,335,643
Liabilities
$2,989,802

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Holly Lyons (President)
  • Emily Romero (Vice President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Tiffany Ruiz (Manager): $118,216 total reported compensation
  • Tricia Lofton (Manager): $116,893 total reported compensation
  • Michelle Stimmel (Finance Officer): $115,911 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Advocates Against Family Violence (AAFV) works to eliminate violence in families and homes by empowering individuals to make positive life choices through support, advocacy, education, awareness, affordable housing and community involvement.

What it reported doing in 2025

Hope's Door Shelter is a 17,000 sq. ft. facility located on three acres that has 29 individually decorated rooms and offers a safe place to live free of abuse. During the year many women and children lived at the shelter. Total shelter nights provided over the year was over 10,546 cumulative nights. The Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) is a coalition of sexual assault nurse examiners, rape victim advocates, law enforcement officer, emergency room staff, and prosecuting attorneys that was developed to coordinate the community's response to sexual assault This team provided support and services to adults and children of physical and sexual abuse cases. The transitional Housing program offers housing, utility and child care assistance to women and children who are victims of domestic violence, dating violence, stalking or sexual assault. Many victims of domestic violence were assisted with rent, utilities, child care vouchers, bus passes and gas vouchers. Through Rural Domestic Violence Program, AAFV collaborates with law enforcement and the judicial system to provide advocacy and support for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, stalking and sexual assault. AAFV offers classes and group sessions to help develop skills essential for a healthy relationship and to become self-sufficient. These classes include: Boundaries, Self-Esteem, Safety Planning, Protection Order Orientation, Life Skills, Anger Management, Parenting, Adult and Children support groups. Our attendance has been good to these classes. Hope's Door offers women fleeing domestic violence and healing with substance abuse issues a safe and sober living environment for them and their children. We also provide case management treatment referrals, drug testing, and educational classes.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 76
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 82
  • Sustainability: 38
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 84.8%; rating input score 85
  • Program expense ratio: 85.7%; rating input score 86
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 1.2%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.22; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.47; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 12.3%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 84.8% of revenue deployed · 85.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.4M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $118K · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.