Northwest Victim Services
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 232392797
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Phone
- 2154384410
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Victims' Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $393,264
- Expenses
- $446,739
- Assets
- $172,684
- Liabilities
- $101,599
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Cristsandra Penn (Board President)
- MELANY NELSON (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- MELANY NELSON (Executive Director): $77,350 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Northwest Victim Services (NVS) provides prompt, effective and holistic services to all victims of crime in Northwest Philadelphia while increasing prevention strategies to elevate community safety.
What it reported doing in 2024
Offering Assistance to Victims of Crime - Reducing fear of crime, meeting emotional and social needs of victims and witnesses, providing support to the community, increasing level of cooperation of community groups with each other and with city/social agencies in addressing the problems of safety, increasing cooperation with law enforcement officials and increasing their awareness of community concerns in order to foster a better relationship between the community and law enforcement officials. (See Schedule O for additional details) . NVS provided services annually to approximately 1,880 crime victims from the 5th, 14th, 35th and 39th police districts of Philadelphia. Additional services provided to these victims include supportive counseling and information and referral. In addition to providing services to crime victims, NVS provides community programs to increase safety and knowledge of NVSs services. NVS also works closely with local and citywide community groups and agencies such as the District Attorneys Office and played an active role in the Philadelphia Coalition for Victim Advocacy and several state and local community task forces. .
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 98% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98.2%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 86.4%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $165.1 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 90; 90th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -13.6%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.39; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.59; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.3%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 34.3% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 98.2% of revenue deployed · 86.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $386K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $77K · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: CEO compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.