Safe Passage Project Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 462946211
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2014
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2123246558
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Legal Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $9,796,991
- Expenses
- $7,142,684
- Assets
- $10,625,821
- Liabilities
- $117,454
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PAMELA FOSTER ESQ (PRESIDENT)
- ANGELA FERNANDEZ (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- ANGELA FERNANDEZ (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $253,126 total reported compensation
- TANIA GABRIELLE COHEN (MANAGING ATTORNEY): $176,737 total reported compensation
- ALEXANDRA RIZIO (MANAGING ATTORNEY): $166,191 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Safe passage project corporation believes no child should face the immigration process alone. We defend the legal right of immigrant children to apply for protection, providing free lawyers to immigrant children facing deportation.
What it reported doing in 2024
Safe passage project corporation provides comprehensive legal services to immigrant children facing deportation, offering both direct representation and mentorship and training for pro bono attorneys who take on these cases. To date, safe passage project corporation has supported more than 3,000 young people across New York city and long island. Founded in 2013, the organization has grown to include more than 60 employees and two offices. Each year, safe passage project corporation manages over 1,400 active cases, reflecting its deep commitment to ensuring that every child has access to high-quality legal representation and a fair opportunity to remain safely in the united states.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 72% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60.2%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 81.5%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $19.13 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- 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 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 27.1%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.49; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.2%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21.7% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.7% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.8% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 60.2% of revenue deployed · 81.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $253K · 18 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 58/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.