Safer Path Family Violence Shelter Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 742634069
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Pleasanton, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8302812001
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Temporary Housing
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,828,561
- Expenses
- $1,793,139
- Assets
- $1,312,464
- Liabilities
- $146,000
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JESSICA PUTZ (President)
- JOEL MCDANIEL (PAST PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- RHONDA WILLIAMSON (Executive Dir.): $86,199 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Safer Path Family Violence Shelter provides safety, advocacy, and comprehensive support for individuals impacted by family violence and sexual assault. We empower survivors to make informed choices, support their healing, and work to build a safe, abuse-free community.
What it reported doing in 2024
Safer Path Family Violence Shelter provides critical, life-saving services to individuals and families impacted by family violence and sexual assault, ensuring access to safety, advocacy, and comprehensive support during times of crisis. Through our 24-hour hotline, emergency shelter, counseling, and legal advocacy, we support survivors in navigating immediate danger while building pathways toward long-term safety and healing. In the past year, Safer Path served over 1,204 survivors and children, provided 4,084 nights of safe shelter, and answered 1,518 hotline calls. These services represent vital points of intervention where individuals and families accessed safety, stabilization, and compassionate support. Our team delivered crisis intervention, advocacy, accompaniment, and resource referrals, helping survivors secure protective orders, access medical care, and connect with community resources that strengthen long-term stability. In addition, Safer Path reached 6,341 individuals through community education and prevention programs, increasing awareness, promoting early intervention, and strengthening the communitys response to family violence and sexual assault. All services are provided free of charge, ensuring that every individual has access to safety and support regardless of their circumstances.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 60% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.8%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 83.3%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $72.02 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 83; 83rd 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.9%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.73; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.8%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.5% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.7% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.8% of revenue deployed · 83.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $86K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 54/100.