Safe Horizon
Legal name: Safe Horizon Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 132946970
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, US
- Phone
- 1-800-621-4673 (HOPE)
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Victims' Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $97,168,145
- Expenses
- $94,516,444
- Assets
- $128,236,271
- Liabilities
- $76,680,048
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
37 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ELIZABETH ROBERTS (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
- LISA O'CONNOR (DEPUTY CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- ELIZABETH ROBERTS (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $353,768 total reported compensation
- LISA O'CONNOR (DEPUTY CEO): $280,016 total reported compensation
- MICHAEL WILLIAMS (GENERAL COUNSEL): $269,270 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide support, prevent violence, and promote justice for victims of crime and abuse, their families and communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Child, adolescent, and mental health treatment programs - safe horizon has developed comprehensive programs for children and adolescents who have experienced crime, abuse and/or trauma, including specific programs for children who have been sexually or severely physically abused. Safe horizon is the pioneer of the urban child advocacy center model that co-locates a multi-disciplinary team of experts including professionals from the nypd, district attorney's office, administration for children's services, medical providers and safe horizon. The child advocacy centers provide coordinated services that expedite the investigation and prosecution of child abuse cases while ensuring victims and impacted family members receive an immediate and effective array of support. (see schedule o for continuation)streetwork reaches youth through a harm-reduction model drop-in center and emergency shelter program for homeless youth. Serving clients from age 16 to 24, streetwork provides individual and group counseling, case management, advocacy, emergency and transitional housing, assistance obtaining medicaid and other benefits, hot meals, showers, clothing, HIV prevention counseling, and parenting groups, in a safe, non-judgmental setting. Streetwork also refers clients for legal, medical and psychiatric services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 88% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 85.3%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $42.77 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Missing
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th 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; 77th 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: 2.7%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.36; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.6; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.1%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 83% of revenue deployed · 85.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 23 of 23 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $80.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $354K · 37 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $1.2M reported
- Consistency: 38 of 39 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 12 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 36/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.