Beleaf Survivors Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
852092471
IRS 990 coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Racine, WI, USA
Phone
2626191634
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Victims' Services

Reported finances

Revenue
$538,477
Expenses
$479,047
Assets
$409,201
Liabilities
$36,872

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

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CANDACE SANCHEZ (President)
  • CHRISTINA TRINIDAD (Vice President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Annabell Bustillos (Executive Dir.): $50,276 total reported compensation
  • Samantha Sustachek (Executive Dir.): $45,835 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Beleaf survivors, inc. The organization seeks to provide a safe and compassionate environment to promote hope and healing after sexual assault by lifting, empowering, advocating, and fighting for survivors and their allies and, therefore, the community as a whole. Additionally, through education, outreach, and collaboration the organization works to shift the culture that perpetuates violence.

What it reported doing in 2025

Beleaf survivors' sexual assault services program sas provides the following services to the racine community. All services are available free of charge. Hospital response team: volunteer advocates and staff respond 24 hours a day to racine and burlington hospitals to meet with survivors and families to provide emotional support and information. Professional therapy: short- and long-term therapy is provided free of charge by masters level counselors to individuals, couples, and families who have been affected by sexual violence. Support groups: sas provides support groups for survivors of sexual assault and their support people. All groups are confidential. Information & referrals: sas provides referrals to community resources serving survivors and their families. Family advocacy: a sas family advocate provides support, information, and advocacy to the children and families served at the racine county child advocacy center. Legal advocacy: sas provides support and information throughout the legal process. Staff can accompany survivors and their families to court, as well as attend hearings that survivors and their families cannot or wish not to attend. Community education: sas provides free educational programs and in-services for community groups, organizations, schools, businesses, and government entities. Sas also helps organize community awareness events and informational displays. In 2025, beleaf's sas program: -answered 481 calls from survivors on the 24/7/365 helpline. -provided hospital response advocates to 135 survivors at hospital er sane exams. -served 46 therapy clients. -provided 793 free therapy sessions.

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 99% 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: 78
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 45
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 75.8%; rating input score 76
  • Program expense ratio: 85.2%; rating input score 85
  • Fundraising efficiency: $26.62 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 11%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.85; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 20.1%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 26.9% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 75.8% of revenue deployed · 85.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $408K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $50K · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.