Safelight Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 561469847
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Hendersonville, NC, USA
- Phone
- 8286933840
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,225,901
- Expenses
- $3,818,627
- Assets
- $6,707,744
- Liabilities
- $626,709
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RAFE WESTBROOK (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- LAUREN WILKIE (EXECUTIVE DI): $127,908 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 the organization is to provide support for victims of domestic/interpersonal violence, sexual assualt, and child abuse.
What it reported doing in 2024
Safelight, inc. Offers a broad range of services that includes shelter, counseling, court advocacy, career training, and independent living assistance to victims and their families. Our mission is creating hope, healing lives, changing community. We do this by providing trauma informed services that allow survivors of domestic violence, child abuse, and sexual assault to build new, violence-free lives in a sustainable way. Safelight is known as the primary service provider for survivors of interpersonal violence in henderson county. Through our continuum of programs, we help survivors begin the process of overcoming physical and emotional trauma; these include emergency shelter, counseling, an accredited child advocacy center, family justice center, and job training program. Our services include a 24-hour crisis hotline, emergency shelter, job training, child medical exams, forensic interviewing, counseling, support groups, case management, court and emergency room advocacy, law enforcement accompaniment, and community education and advocacy. Community based education and advocacy for prevention and our job training program. By removing barriers, safelight's services heal lives and create a safer, healthier community. During the 2023-2024 year - "we are not just statistics. These are our neighbors, our community." 24-hour shelter filled 18,318 beds for 256 survivors 24-hour hotline answered over 1,087 calls counseling center saw 255 clients for 2,765 sessions community advocacy and prevention education was given to 6,830 individuals job training trained 21 interns child advocacy center assisted 263 children family justice center helped 328 survivors
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 68% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.1%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 87%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $41.13 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 75; 75th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 9.6%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.76; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.3%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.1% of revenue deployed · 87% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $128K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.