Daya Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 760513273
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 7138427222
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Service Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,726,028
- Expenses
- $1,928,451
- Assets
- $4,564,901
- Liabilities
- $343,938
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Shree Hardikar Nath (President - Outgoing)
- Fermeen Fazal (President)
- Fatima Mohiuddin (Past President, Board Member)
- Rachna Khare (Executive Director - Outgoing)
Highest reported compensation
- Hareema Mela (Interim Exec Dir - Outgoing): $91,034 total reported compensation
- Rachna Khare (Executive Director - Outgoing): $48,054 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Daya empowers survivors of domestic and sexual violence through services such as counseling, transitional housing, translation and interpretation, legal advocacy, and financial support, and educates the community to end the cycle of abuse. While Dayas services are open to all adult survivors, the organization has deep cultural expertise in supporting the South Asian community.
What it reported doing in 2024
In 2024, Daya served a total of 626 clients. 66 clients received licensed counseling, 35 families received housing assistance, 275 received some form of legal assistance, and 96 received assistance to achieve their educational, financial, or employment goals. Daya held 47 outreach events reaching 7,888 community members. This is particularly helpful as the primary referral source to Daya is members of the community. Moreover, Daya conducted 61 training sessions to equip 2,475 professionals and completed orientations with 9 new volunteers with best practices and cultural considerations when working with survivors of violence. Finally, 4,532 community members attended 25 community education sessions to increase their knowledge about domestic violence, sexual assault, and barriers faced by survivors.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 68% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 77% for direct work, and 23% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 52
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 35.3%; rating input score 35
- Program expense ratio: 67.7%; rating input score 68
- Fundraising efficiency: $182.08 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 91; 91st 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: 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: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 48.2%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.37; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.7%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.8% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.4% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.5% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 35.3% of revenue deployed · 67.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $91K · 21 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 35/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.