Doorways for Women and Families Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
541087829
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Arlington, VA, USA
Phone
7035049400
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$6,116,746
Expenses
$7,015,557
Assets
$13,116,105
Liabilities
$4,148,086

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

22 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MICHELLE SAGATOV (PRESIDENT)
  • MELISSA MACGREGOR (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • DIANA ORTIZ (PRESIDENT & CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • DIANA ORTIZ (PRESIDENT & CEO): $264,325 total reported compensation
  • JOY MYERS (CHIEF DEVELOPMENT & STRATEGY OFFICER): $172,706 total reported compensation
  • TRACY CARNEY (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $159,828 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Doorways is a community-based nonprofit providing trauma-informed services including safe shelter, housing, and life-changing support to individuals and families experiencing the traumas of domestic violence, sexual assault, and homelessness. As arlington's only fully state-accredited service provider for survivors of intimate partner violence and sexual assault, doorways offers a wide range of crisis response services and a variety of comprehensive programs in the community. In fiscal year 2025, doorways continued serving individuals and families in crisis and in need of immediate support. Doorways' programs combined reached 2,125 individuals (adults, youth, and children) plus 1,267 youth and adults who attended prevention and educational sessions. Together, these programs comprise a comprehensive approach to preventing and responding to violence, offering a range of options and a continuum of help for people as they move from crisis to safety and stability.

What it reported doing in 2024

Domestic and sexual violence crisis support: doorways' emergency response for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault includes the safehouse program, an emergency shelter response comprised of congregate and non-congregate facilities serving individuals and families, plus support services. Doorways operates arlington county's only 24-hour domestic and sexual violence hotline offering 24/7 crisis counseling, safety planning, support, information, resource navigation and referrals every day of the year. In addition, doorways offers the hospital accompaniment response program (harp) for survivors seeking forensic exams for domestic violence and/or sexual assault and the community-based services court advocacy program for persons seeking safety planning, and legal protection from intimate partner violence and sexual assault. In fy25, doorways' former homeless shelter was renovated and reopened its doors as the new safehouse, which increased our capacity to serve families and individuals impacted by domestic and sexual violence.during fy25, doorways supported clients in crisis in the following ways: - doorways' 24-hour domestic and sexual violence hotline answered 1,447 crisis calls, including 1,063 calls where doorways' advocates provided safety planning and crisis support for adults and children experiencing domestic and/or sexual violence. - doorways' specially trained volunteers and staff provided 56 hospital accompaniments for forensic exams for both sexual and domestic violence. - doorways' safehouse program provided emergency shelter for 150 people (80 adults and 70 children) in 79 households.- 90% of safehouse households (all but 6) who disclosed their destination broke the cycle of violence and did not return to abusive living situations after leaving shelter.- the court advocacy program assisted 329 individuals (170 adults and 159 children) with safety planning and services to obtain legal protective orders, child support, custody petitions, and other court judgements.

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 85% 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: 79
  • Transparency & Controls: 83
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 28
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 88.6%; rating input score 89
  • Program expense ratio: 76.5%; rating input score 77
  • Fundraising efficiency: $9.48 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • 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: 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: -14.7%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.87; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.32; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 14.8%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 88.6% of revenue deployed · 76.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $5.4M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $264K · 22 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $655K reported
  • Consistency: 38 of 38 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 36/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.