Safehouse Denver Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 840745911
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Denver, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3033026119
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Violence Shelters
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,043,901
- Expenses
- $2,665,580
- Assets
- $6,305,349
- Liabilities
- $288,834
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JENNIFER CARUSO RETIRED 72225 (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- JENNIFER CARUSO RETIRED 72225 (CEO): $180,552 total reported compensation
- TINA ROBINSON (CFO): $134,862 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Safehouse denver assists adult, children, and youth in reclaiming their right to a life free from domestic violence. The agency provides a broad spectrum of culturally competent, trauma-informed services, including but not limited to, emergency shelter, an extended stay facility, safety planning, individual counseling, support groups, case management and advocacy, court accompaniment, a 24-hour crisis and information line, and community education/prevention/engagement activities. Services are available through the non-residential counseling and advocacy center (the cac) as well as through the emergency shelter and extended stay facility. Safehouse denver is committed to increasing community awareness and accountability for the intervention in, and prevention of, domestic violence. Safehouse denver has a community engagement manager on staff to coordinate and implement activities which are designed to communicate critical information and resources to the community through health fairs,
What it reported doing in 2024
Safehouse denver's services to support children and youth are based on a family model that aims to build resilience in children affected by domestic violence. This is done through strong parent-child bonds that support healthy development in children and improved family outcomes. Through safe emergency housing, extended stay housing, individual and family counseling, support groups, and advocacy, safehouse denver provides families with programming that increases self-sufficiency and strengthens relationships between parents, children, and siblings. As a result, children have demonstrated improvements in problem-solving skills and expressing emotions; increased self-confidence; and more positive relationships. The 24/7 crisis and information line offers crisis intervention and information referral assistance. Over 2,330 calls were received from april 1, 2024, to march 31, 2025. Approximately 1,360 callers were referred to other facilities because safehouse denver was not able to serve them at the emergency shelter (due to being at full capacity). In 2023, we expanded our connection to the community to provide awareness and education on domestic violence to the general population. Safehouse denver added a full-time community engagement manager position to our team to lead this process. From april 1, 2024, to march 31, 2025, safehouse denver participated in 22 community events, including cultural events, neighborhood gatherings, health fairs, and other events with approximately 13,793 people learning about our services. Through the community education program, community presentations were provided to area agencies, clubs, companies, and schools on the issue of domestic violence and our services. From april 1, 2024 to march 31, 2025, we hosted 146 educational sessions with 2,616 people. In total, we reached out 224% more people this year than the previous year's in the community. Other accomplishment: community program offering awareness, education, and resources to the community in a wide variety of settings, including, but not limited to, local festivals, government entities, hospitals/medical institutions, colleges/universities/trade schools, nonprofit organizations, corporations, associations, and social clubs.
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
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 reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.7%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 76.6%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.92 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 30; 30th 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: 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: 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: 12.4%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.37; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.8%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.7% of revenue deployed · 76.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $181K · 12 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.