Fox Cities Victim Crisis Response Team
Legal name: Fox Cities Victim Crisis Response T
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 474100553
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Appleton, WI, USA
- Phone
- 9203802989
- Rating
- 60
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Victims' Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $239,744
- Expenses
- $189,907
- Assets
- $157,282
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BURGUNDY J BILETSKI (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- NICK I THORN V (PRESIDENT)
- FAYE EWALD (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- KRISTENE STACKER (DIRECTOR)
- JOHN J MANION (DIRECTOR)
- MELISSA HIETPAS (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We Provide Resources Our Mission Our mission is to ensure that victims/survivors, witnesses of crime, and those experiencing other traumatic crises are treated with dignity, respect, fairness, compassion, courtesy, and sensitivity. Established in 1997 by the Appleton Police Department, the Fox Cities Victim Crisis Response Team (VCR Team) is a 501(c)(3), volunteer-based organization that assists local law enforcement agencies and other emergency personnel in providing on-scene support for community members in the aftermath of a crime or traumatic event. In addition to providing immediate support, we also follow up with community members after the crime or traumatic event to ensure they’re getting the services and resources necessary to heal and move forward. We have partnerships with the following law enforcement agencies: Appleton • Grand Chute • Kaukauna • Neenah • Winnebago County...
What it reported doing in 2025
Lent aid and assitance to emergency personal and victims of crimes accidents and natural disasters.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 77% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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
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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 24
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 14%; rating input score 14
- Program expense ratio: 17.4%; rating input score 17
- Fundraising efficiency: $537.31 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.8%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.83; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 40.5% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.1% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 14% of revenue deployed · 17.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $33K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 14/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.