Niwap Inc

What it reported doing in 2025

Training and technical assistance: trained 807 attendees by offering 16 live trainings and 4 virtual training events hosted in 8 states, reaching national and statewide audiences. Trainees at the virtual events included: judges, law enforcement, prosecutors, victim advocates, legal services, pro bono attorneys, social services and non-profit organizations, state domestic violence and sexual assault coalitions leadership and staff, and other government agency staff. Niwap's trainings included: a training for shelter directors in Maryland; board and staff trainings for the Ohio domestic violence network on vawa protections; a workshop at the annual Maryland state victim advocacy convening on immigrant legal rights; a training for d.c. Victim advocates and attorneys on vawa confidentiality and u visa certification; a training on Wisconsin safety net services; a training on vawa protections and immigration relief in san antonio; a q&a session in spanish on safety planning for valor; and a training for forensic nurses serving the rio grande valley. Niwap also had the opportunity to present a several conferences in 2025, including multiple sessions at the institute on violence, abuse, and trauma (ivat) conference in san diego; a workshop on immigrant community engagement at the baltimore immigration summit, a presentation in Massachusetts at the cape & islands district attorney's office human trafficking conference, and a u visa presentation at the national council of juvenile and family court judges' (ncjfcj) annual conference in chicago. Technical assistance: niwap answered 8,113 technical assistance questions from a diverse group of professionals including: victim advocates (40.3%); victims' attorneys (21.5%); judges and court staff (14.6%); state government agencies and staff (14.6%); police, prosecutors, or other government officials (15.9%); culturally or linguistically specific community-based groups (4.8%); and healthcare providers (2.6%). Many calls sought assistance on multiple topics. The topics of technical assistance offered were: immigration relief for victims of domestic violence, child abuse, sexual assault, human trafficking and other crimes (24%); helping immigrant victims in family law cases (17.1%); violence against women act (vawa) confidentiality protections (15.2%); confidentiality, safety planning, language access, and culturally competent services for victims (11.6%); courts, police, prosecutors and justice system's response to immigrant crime victims (4.3%); and access to public benefits and publicly funded services and housing for immigrant crime victims (3.2%). We responded to technical assistance requests from all states and from d.c., puerto rico, guam, american samoa and the northern mariana islands. A total of 54 u.s. Jurisdictions representing the following u.s. Regions: west (22.1%); south (17.6%); midwest (16.9%), northeast (16.0%), mid-atlantic (26.4%) and u.s. Territories (0.3%). The top 11 states in order were md, pa, tx, ca, dc, oh, ny, ut, ga, il, and wa. We also received international technical assistance requests from canada, chile, japan, mexico, and thailand.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 89.4%; rating input score 89
• Program expense ratio: 73%; rating input score 73

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -22.3%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.8; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 16.1% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings