Community Alternatives to Violence Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 550751906
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Martinsburg, WV, USA
- Phone
- 3042624424
- Rating
- 39
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Employment Procurement Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $186,423
- Expenses
- $191,376
- Assets
- $195,124
- Liabilities
- $4,137
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Larry Schultz (President)
- Megan Anderson (Vice President)
- Jo Elliott (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Larry Schultz (President)
- Megan Anderson (Vice President)
- Claudia Bentley (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Schedule O
What it reported doing in 2025
The Organizations Mission is to prevent abusive behavior by conducting educational programs for men and women, and to raise awareness of respectful relationships in the community.The organizations primary program is the Batterers Intervention Prevention Program (BIPP) dedicated to reducing family violence by challenging the beliefs and behaviors of abusers.Respectful Relationships for adult men and women. CAV increased the frequency of facilitator trainings to exceed licensing requirements. Combination of paid and volunteer facilitators for classes. Three full-time employees.Central location of 1,700 square feet of office space, including classroom for on-site programming. Participate with local Domestic Violence Task Forces, bringing together various agencies to work against violence in the 3 counties of the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. Participate with local Sexual Assault Response Teams, working with various agencies on community response to sexual assault in the 3 counties of the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia.Participate with the local Human Trafficking Teams, working with various agencies on community response in the 3 counties of the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia.Participated in Berkeley County Domestic Violence Reduction Task Force.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 68% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0.1%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.7%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.02; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 52.2%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.8% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0.1% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $74 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.