Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 591943399
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Sarasota, FL, USA
- Phone
- 9413650208
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Rape Victim Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,048,916
- Expenses
- $4,956,438
- Assets
- $17,417,197
- Liabilities
- $231,016
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jessica Hays (President & CEO)
- Melissa Smith (Vice President of Finance)
- Mary Ellen Mancini (Vice President of Philanthropy)
Highest reported compensation
- Jessica Hays (President & CEO): $260,644 total reported compensation
- Melissa Smith (Vice President of Finance): $192,906 total reported compensation
- Mary Ellen Mancini (Vice President of Philanthropy): $148,205 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
SPARCC's mission is to provide a safe haven and promote empowerment, awareness, and social change to end domestic and sexual violence.
What it reported doing in 2024
Emergency Shelter- The Shelter operates 24-hours a day, 365 days a year. The primary goal of the shelter is to protect program participants from harm and to restore them to self-sufficiency through the provision of supportive services. Shelter services include: Safe refuge, food, clothing, crisis counseling, service management, advocacy, safety planning, transportation and information/referral to other private/public sources of assistance. The design of the shelter is such that families and individuals are accommodated on separate sides of the facility with a shared kitchen and dining area. The SPARCC shelter also provides a kennel facility for pets. Domestic violence and sexual assault are under-reported crimes that cause a lifetime of effects and SPARCC aims to aid its participants by providing emergency housing and a place of respite, where daily needs are met, so that survivors have the opportunity to begin healing and making decisions to help change their lives for the better. IFP project attorneys located at SPARCC provide free legal services to help obtain injunctions for survivors of domestic violence, sexual violence, dating violence, and stalking.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 81
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 89.2%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $25.44 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- 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 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: 29.7%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.51; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.5%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74% of revenue deployed · 89.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $4.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $261K · 19 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $138K reported
- Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.