Safe Harbor Center Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

Founded in 1991, safe harbor children's center, inc. (the "center") is a state licensed emergency shelter facility for 24 children located in brunswick, Georgia. The center's mission is to provide shelter and therapeutic services to children any age under 18 who have been abused, abandoned or neglected; who are homeless or have run away from home; or who are otherwise at risk or feel threatened. During the spring of 2017, construction was completed on the new 22,000 square foot campus which features separate, two-story wings for 12 boys and 12 girls, with a dedicated living room for each wing. Each child shares a room with their own closet connected by a shared bathroom. The children share dining and kitchen space, a tutoring area and computer room, all located on the first floor. A playground, picnic area, and community garden provide outdoor attraction for the children. The adjacent administrative building houses an art studio for the children as well as office for the staff. Zach's place: runaway & homeless youth shelter (rhy) is an emergency shelter that provides for the immediate needs of runaway and homeless youth in glynn county, Georgia. Through rhy, children receive the encouragement, resources, and skills they need to make healthy choices regarding how they live, and ultimately secure the safe, stable, and supportive living arrangements they need to fulfill their potential and successfully contribute to society. The shelter, formerly used as the center's main facility until the new building was completed, is a two-story home that includes eight beds (4 boys, 4 girls), two and a half baths, a large living room, study, dining room, kitchen, laundry area, family visitation area and activity center, as well as administrative offices for the staff. The safe harbor family preservation program helps families alleviate crisis and maintain the safety of children in their own homes. The program includes in-home counseling, parent support and education, individual counseling, transportation, and childcare. Street beat is a street outreach program for reaching out to teens living on the streets. The program provides nutrition and hygiene kits, sexual exploitation literature, and provides support for those youth who want to come off the streets. The mission is to increase young people's safety, well-being and selfsufficiency and to help them build permanent connections with caring adults with the goal of getting off the streets. The strive transitional living program fills a void in services for a very large portion of southeast Georgia: young homeless girls, ages 16 to 22. The group home has six beds, and supportive services with the goal of getting these girls off the streets. By helping them build permanent connections with caring adults, the hope is that these girls will become productive members of society. Transitional living assists female clients for 18 months, to develop skills leading to self-sufficiency and independence, while providing a safe living environment. Project safe place, an outreach of the center, is designed to reach youth in the early stage of crisis. The program works by creating a network of "safe places", business and public locations that display the safe place logo on their premises. Any youth in trouble knows that he or she can enter a location bearing the sign and request help. An employee will provide the youth with a secure place to wait while the center is contacted. The center then dispatches a trained volunteer to the safe place site to offer assistance and provide transportation to the center facility, if necessary. Any expenses associated with the safe place program are included with the runaway & homeless youth expenses in the financial statements. The children's advocacy center serves victims of child abuse throughout the brunswick judicial circuit, which includes the counties of appling, camden, glynn, jeff davis, and wayne. The advocacy center provides rehabilitative care to more than 30

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 83.3%; rating input score 83
• Program expense ratio: 91.2%; rating input score 91
• Fundraising efficiency: $28.62 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd 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: 8 of 8 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: 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: 9%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.87; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 1.9%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings