Safe America Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 582141636
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Marietta, GA, USA
- Phone
- 7709737233
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Centers, Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $251,604
- Expenses
- $233,043
- Assets
- $194,095
- Liabilities
- $107,008
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
People named in this filing
- LEN PAGANO (CHAIRMAN)
- DOUG HIMBURGER (VICE CHAIRMAN)
- GREG BRISSETTE (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To distribute information, develop and facilitate programming, and support businesses and products with a focus on emerging health and safety issues at home, work, and play
What it reported doing in 2024
Safe america has two programs to help veterans. Vet tran, along with other non-profits, drives veterans to medical appointments for free. Vet serve, along with other non-profits and businesses helps homeless veterans.safe america maintains a resource data base. Many calls from veterans are directed to resources they need. They helped 54 homeless veterans in 2024 and transported many using 30 volunteers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.6%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 86.1%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.67 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 38; 38th 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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90%; rating input score 90; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- 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: 7.4%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.83; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.55; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -11.9% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -9.9% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.6% of revenue deployed · 86.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 20 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $100 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 20 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 38/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.