Council on Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 382283832
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Midland, MI, USA
- Phone
- 9898356771
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Violence Shelters
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,002,262
- Expenses
- $3,383,355
- Assets
- $13,461,873
- Liabilities
- $376,460
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DONNA BABCOCK (VICE PRESIDENT)
- DAVID KEPLER III (PRESIDENT)
- ELLEN LYNCH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- ELLEN LYNCH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $108,944 total reported compensation
- MONICA HARPER (DIRECTOR OF FINANCE): $87,546 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide shelter, one-on-one counseling, support groups and advocacy to survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in addition, a 24-hour crisis line is operated for victims of these crimes.
What it reported doing in 2024
The sexual assault program offers comprehensive services to primary and secondary survivors, including crisis intervention, counseling by master's prepared therapists, safety planning, advocacy and referrals, education and support groups, court accompaniment, legal advocacy, 24-hour help line, shelter, transitional supportive housing, and permanent supportive housing. Serving both children and adults, crisis and long-term counseling utilize individual, family, and group modalities. Shelterhouse's sexual assault nurse examiner (sane) program provides specialized medical care, forensic evidence collection, crisis counseling and emotional support. School programming includes counseling on location, utilizing evidence based curriculum, including expect respect, safe dates, and structured sensory interventions for traumatized children, adolescents and parents (sitcap). Community education includes the globally recognized start by believing campaign.
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 93% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.6%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 78.9%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $20.9 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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: -12.7%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.98; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.8%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.6% of revenue deployed · 78.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $109K · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 48/100.