Safe Streets Campaign

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
911704402
IRS 990 coverage
2018–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Tacoma, WA, USA
Phone
2532726824
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Crime Prevention

Reported finances

Revenue
$753,250
Expenses
$778,384
Assets
$738,615
Liabilities
$48,764

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

14 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JOHN HINES (PRESIDENT)
  • NORA FLEMMING DE SANDOVAL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • NORA FLEMMING DE SANDOVAL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $112,910 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The mission of safe streets is to unite and inspire youth, neighbors, and businesses to build safe, healthy, thriving communities. Safe streets fulfills our mission through implementation of two well-established programs, neighborhood organizing and youth leading change, as well as the recently developed imagine justice project. Our 11 staff members and 13 board members reflect the diversity of the pierce county community we serve.

What it reported doing in 2024

Youth leading change youth leading change (ylc) is a free, out-of-school expanded learning program available to any high school youth in pierce county. Youth explore careers, build leadership and social-emotional learning skills and implement youth-led projects to improve their school and larger communities. Ylc strengthens protective factors for youth participants, an evidence-based strategy that supports prevention around violence, mental health and substance misuse disorders. The ylc program is active in the franklin pierce school district and works with local youth serving organizations to work with all high school youth regardless of school attendance. In 2023 we added a youth mental health initiative that is now a program called youth health is wealth. We have partnered with together tacoma to facilitate the program in salishan at the family investment center. Unduplicated youth served through youth leading change in classroom in 2024, was 32. Youth who participated in spring and fall campus cleanups were not counted. At health is wealth, there were 45 unduplicated youth over the course of the program in 2024.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 77% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - 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: 77
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 96
  • Sustainability: 33
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 80.9%; rating input score 81
  • Program expense ratio: 78.2%; rating input score 78
  • Fundraising efficiency: $14.75 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 50; 50th 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: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 24th 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: -3.3%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.95; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 14.5%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -4.5% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 80.9% of revenue deployed · 78.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 13 of 14 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $609K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $113K · 14 people listed
  • Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 50/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.