Su Casa - Ending Domestic Violence

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
953495175
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Long Beach, CA, USA
Phone
5624216537
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,101,017
Expenses
$2,277,813
Assets
$4,052,246
Liabilities
$309,329

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ALBERTO URIBE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • SUSTAN STEL (ASSOCIATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • ALBERTO URIBE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $174,182 total reported compensation
  • KIMBERLY BROOKE (DIRECTOR OF FINANCE): $142,826 total reported compensation
  • SUSTAN STEL (ASSOCIATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $117,923 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Su casa's mission is to empower individuals and families to live free from domestic abuse and build partnerships with communities to end domestic violence. The organization helps transform victims into survivors, helping them escape the bonds of abuse and establish healthy, independent lives. Their approach is compassionate, client-focused, and culturally sensitive, and designed to support survivors wherever they are in their healing process, empowering them to acquire safe and stable housing, job placement, and self-sufficiency.

What it reported doing in 2024

Su casa's emergency shelter is a 22 bed congregate living facility (accommodating six to eight families) that provides low income domestic violence survivors and their children with up to 45 days of safe housing, food and clothing, individual and group counseling, case management, legal and social services advocacy, and life skills classes to help them establish independence and safety. The emergency shelter also operates a 24-hour hotline providing immediate crisis intervention, safety assessments, and community resources referrals. In fiscal year 2024-2025, approximately 115 survivors (including 38 adults and 77 children) received 3,480 bed nights of emergency shelter and supportive services and approximately 1,996 calls to the 24-hour hotline were answered.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 78% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 90% 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 79
  • Transparency & Controls: 87
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 33
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 92.3%; rating input score 92
  • Program expense ratio: 84.6%; rating input score 85
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd 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: 8 of 8 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: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -8.4%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.78; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 19.1%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 92.3% of revenue deployed · 84.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.9M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $174K · 13 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.