Center for Domestic Peace
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 942415856
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Rafael, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4154572464
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Violence Shelters
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,440,976
- Expenses
- $5,054,552
- Assets
- $12,718,662
- Liabilities
- $2,026,821
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Tara Peterson (Executive Director (start 4/24))
- Donna M Garske (Former Executive Director (end 6/24))
Highest reported compensation
- Donna M Garske (Former Executive Director (end 6/24)): $329,444 total reported compensation
- Kathleen I Kain (Deputy Exec. Director): $208,515 total reported compensation
- Tara Peterson (Executive Director (start 4/24)): $165,779 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We are Marin's champion in the movement to end domestic violence - working at the intersection of survivors, systems, and community.
What it reported doing in 2024
The core services of Center for Domestic Peace include an emergency shelter, 24/7 hotlines, transitional housing, support groups, advocacy, financial assistance, a children and youth initiative, and programs for men who have been violent (ManKind). These core services promote the safety and empowerment of domestic violence victims. During FY 24/25, these programs provided services to 3,487 unduplicated individuals as follows: 1. Answered 6,823 hotline calls, providing safety planning, emotional support, referrals, and information.2. Provided emergency shelter for 94 victims and 61 children and dependents for a total of 5,415 bednights, along with other supportive services such as food, transportation, clothing, and other basic necessities. 3. Provided transitional housing via 20 separate units to 30 adults and 64 children and dependents for a total of 19,647 bednights, together with economic self-sufficiency planning and activities, occupational empowerment, case management, and assistance in securing permanent long-term housing. 4. Provided financial assistance for 71 individuals/families totaling $300,471 primarily toward rental assistance for permanent or transitional housing but also including funds for outside legal assistance. 5. Provided advocacy and assistance within the legal and criminal justice system to 393 individuals. 6. Operated the Children, Youth, and Community Prevention program, which reached 281 adults and 328 children, including: parent/child group and individual therapy to 146 non-abusing adults and 70 children and case management to 268 adults.7. Through Transforming Communities, Marin provided healthy masculinity training and activities to 15 young men and leadership engagement activities to 25 youth and young adults as interns/volunteers in shaping services for youth.8. Provided non-residential support groups to 102 participants.9. Educated 54 men through ManKind to teach them skills to stop their violent behavior.Center for Domestic Peace also advances community responsiveness to domestic violence by training and coordinating professionals from various sectors within multiple systems. In FY 24/25, we conducted 46 training events, which reached 1,726 individuals (youth/young adults and their service providers, school administrators and educators, providers in underserved communities, county government personnel, law enforcement, medical and mental health practitioners, Center for Domestic Peace volunteers, and other community members). Center for Domestic Peace also provided outreach and education at 102 separate events that reached a minimum of 7,050 people throughout the community. Social media had a reach of 115,639.
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 92% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 74.5%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $16.68 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.1%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.52; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 27%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70% of revenue deployed · 74.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $3.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $329K · 18 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 54/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 49/100.