South Brevard Women's Center Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
591628264
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
Location
Melbourne, FL, USA
Phone
3212423110
Rating
87
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Womens' Centers

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$3,486,653
Expenses
$3,315,122
Assets
$3,905,023
Liabilities
$780,993

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LARK JANES (PRESIDENT)
  • MISCHEL OSTOVICH (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • STEPHANIE HUSTED (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • STEPHANIE HUSTED (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $132,300 total reported compensation
  • MELISSA THOMKE (SR DIR OF FIN AND OPS): $101,197 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 assist in creating safe, healthy, self-sufficent lives by providing support, education, counseling, information and services to survivors of domestic, dating, and sexual violence, and those suffering the ill effects of poverty, homelessness, and mental health challenges.

What it reported doing in 2025

For survivors ready to establish permanent housing, the rapid rehousing program helps remove financial and practical barriers that often stand in the way of long-term stability. Through housing navigation, financial assistance, employment support, budgeting, and ongoing case management, families are able to secure permanent housing more quickly while building a foundation for long-term success.behavioral health services play an essential role in helping survivors process trauma and rebuild healthy lives. Licensed therapists provide individual, family, and group counseling both in person and through telehealth using evidence-based, trauma-informed approaches including eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (emdr), cognitive behavioral therapy (cbt), expressive arts therapy, and other holistic interventions. In 2025, 154 individuals received 1,796 counseling sessions. Recognizing that prevention is key to ending interpersonal violence, the women's center partners with schools, colleges, employers, and community organizations to educate youth and adults about healthy relationships, consent, bystander intervention, human trafficking, domestic violence, sexual assault, and workplace violence. Interactive workshops encourage participants to recognize abusive behaviors, establish healthy boundaries, and safely intervene when someone is at risk. During 2025, prevention educators reached more than 2,300 students, professionals, and community members through 79 educational events.to further promote stability and self-sufficiency, the women's center provides basic necessities including food, diapers, hygiene products, clothing, furniture vouchers, and emergency financial assistance for individuals and families experiencing crisis. These services help reduce immediate barriers while allowing survivors to focus on rebuilding safe, healthy, and independent lives. In 2025, 263 individuals received 2,488 supportive services through the self-sufficiency program. Together, these programs provide a coordinated continuum of care that supports survivors and their families from the first call for help through long-term independence. By combining immediate crisis response with housing, advocacy, counseling, prevention, and supportive services, the women's center continues to strengthen individuals, families, and the brevard county community.

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 98% 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: 80
  • Transparency & Controls: 94
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 41
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 85.9%; rating input score 86
  • Program expense ratio: 83.1%; rating input score 83
  • Fundraising efficiency: $11.73 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 41; 41st 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: 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: 4.9%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.18; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 85.9% of revenue deployed · 83.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2.8M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $132K · 13 people listed
  • Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • 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.
  • 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 41/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 45/100.