Safehome Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 480917798
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2023
- Location
- Overland Park, KS, USA
- Phone
- 9134329300
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Violence Shelters
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,631,507
- Expenses
- $4,351,216
- Assets
- $8,238,090
- Liabilities
- $521,079
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- HEIDI WOOTEN (PRESIDENT &)
Highest reported compensation
- HEIDI WOOTEN (PRESIDENT &): $231,385 total reported compensation
- DONITA YOUTSEY (CFO): $139,637 total reported compensation
- KIM PAUL (CPO): $100,292 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To break the cycle of domestic violence and partner abuse for victims and their children by providing shelter, advocacy, counseling and prevention education in our community.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, safehome, inc. Provided services to approximately 10,295 individuals through its four primary comprehensive services. All of the organization's services are available in english and spanish, and other language translation is provided as needed. Safehome, inc. Provides all of its services confidentially and free of charge. The organization's emergency shelter consists of 14 family units, 10 single units, and the option to provide two large family units, providing a confidential, safe, and healing atmosphere for adults and children to love, gain inner strength, build self-esteem, and heal. In 2025, the organization provided 311 adults and children escaping from domestic violence with 11,499 shelter bed nights of refuge to find safety, help and hope. The organization's shelter includes a crisis hotline that is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to provide a listening ear, help with immediate safety planning, and connect victims with the organization's or other community resources they need to escape domestic violence situations. In 2025, the organization responded to 7,445 hotline calls. The organization also provides rent assistance and supportive services to families who transition to independent living.
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 85% 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.7%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 81.1%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.72 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th 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: 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: 6.1%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.89; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.8%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.7% of revenue deployed · 81.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $3.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $231K · 11 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 56/100.