Fight Against Domestic Violence
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 815091342
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Midvale, UT, USA
- Phone
- 8012100218
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Sexual Abuse, Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,015,287
- Expenses
- $1,064,438
- Assets
- $777,888
- Liabilities
- $31,324
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jessie Richards (President)
- Brooke Muir (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Brooke Muir (Executive Director): $100,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To heal and educate survivors of domestic violence, to bring awareness and education to the public regarding domestic violence and how members of the public can provide safe and productive help to victims of domestic violence and support other charitable organizations that provide direct services to victims of domestic violence.
What it reported doing in 2025
During 2025, the Housing First program provided emergency housing assistance to 229 survivors of domestic violence and their 331 dependent children. The program ensured that survivors fleeing dangerous situations had immediate access to safe, stable housing, reducing barriers to escape and supporting long-term recovery. We fulfilled 213 Housing First requests.The Flex Fund program delivered emergency financial assistance to 287 survivors and their 395 children. By providing flexible, direct financial support, the program addressed urgent needs including transportation, childcare, and other critical expenses that survivors face when breaking free from abusive situations and working toward stability. We fulfilled 273 Flex Fund requests.We provided 114 survivors with both Housing First and Flex Fund support.The Crisis Cash program supported 10 domestic violence service providers across Utah with emergency financial resources to meet the immediate needs of survivors. Additionally, Crisis Cash funds were used to provide gift cards to survivors residing in domestic violence shelters during the annual Mother's Day to Remember event, honoring survivors and their children during the holiday. FADV hosted a first of its kind Domestic Violence Service Provider Roundtable, bringing together leaders, advocates, and frontline practitioners from domestic violence shelter programs across the state. The Roundtable was highly successful, and FADV plans to continue hosting annual convenings to strengthen the statewide domestic violence service network.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 86% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 89
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.4%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 81.3%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.35 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 94.5%; rating input score 94; 45th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.8%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.73; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.4%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 26.9% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.4% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.2% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.4% of revenue deployed · 81.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $865K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $100K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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 33/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 39/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.