King County Sexual Assault Resource Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 910967255
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Renton, WA, USA
- Phone
- 4252265062
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,468,730
- Expenses
- $9,006,825
- Assets
- $4,518,421
- Liabilities
- $1,904,822
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
37 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lorraine Kate Garvey (CEO)
- Marilyn Sherron (President)
- Dennis Higgins (Vice President)
- Lisa Schaures (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Lorraine Kate Garvey (CEO): $192,722 total reported compensation
- Karen Sharp (COO): $182,055 total reported compensation
- Larraine Lynch (Executive Dir.): $161,324 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The King County Sexual Assault Resource Center is the largest and most comprehensive nonprofit provider of sexual assault services in King County and Washington state. We achieve a community free from sexual violence through a mission that gives voice to victims, their families, and the community; creates change in beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors about violence; and instills courage for people to speak out about sexual assault. We assist nearly 5,000 victims and their families annually, almost half of whom are children and youth under 18. Direct services include a free and confidential 24-hour Resource Line, general, medical and legal advocacy, evidence-based therapy, and family services. All direct survivor and family services are available in both English and Spanish, and bilingual/bicultural providers ensure all services are delivered with cultural relevancy and inclusiveness. All services are confidential and cost is never a barrier to help. Expert consultation, training and educ
What it reported doing in 2025
SERVICES FOR VICTIMS - KCSARC provides services for victims of sexual assault and their families: Provided comprehensive assistance to 4,820 children, teen and adult victims of sexual assault and their families. This includes a 24-hour resource line, legal, medical and general advocacy, trauma-focused therapy, and specialized services for families. All direct services are offered in both English and Spanish. All advocacy services are provided free of charge. Services are developed using empirically supported principles so as to be most effective.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 72% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 95
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.2%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 69.7%; rating input score 70
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.23 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 6 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.6%; rating input score 100; 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; 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: -6.4%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.5; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.42; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.3%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.2% of revenue deployed · 69.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 25 of 25 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $6.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $193K · 37 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $861K reported
- Consistency: 40 of 40 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 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.
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.