Support Advocacy and Resource Center

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
911178405
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Richland, WA, USA
Phone
5093745391
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Rape Victim Services

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,415,462
Expenses
$1,524,098
Assets
$2,317,590
Liabilities
$611,788

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

Leadership & pay

15 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MONICA CISNEROS (PRESIDENT)
  • ADAM AUSTIN (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • JODEE GARRETSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • JODEE GARRETSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $147,879 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Provide crisis services, support, and advocacy to victims, non-offending family members, and others who are impacted by crime. We strive to create and maintain a community without violence through prevention-based education.

What it reported doing in 2024

Support, advocacy and resource center (sarc) provides crisis intervention, support, medical, and legal advocacy, on-site counseling, information and referrals to victims and others impacted by crime. Sarc also provides prevention-based education to the community. Sarc served 415 new clients through our crisis program, provided 1,580 services, and made 312 contacts with other agencies/persons on the clients' behalf during the clients' initial visit. Sarc invested 363.75 hours of services toward new clients at intake. Provided 13,924 follow up services to clients. For sexual assault, 86% of new clients were female and 14% were male. General crimes (cvsc) is a program under the crisis program umbrella. General crimes: 310 new clients were served this past year. 1,370 services were provided and 1,602 contacts made with other agencies/persons on the clients' behalf during the initial visit. For general crimes, 70% of new clients were female and 30% were male. Sarc offers prevention-based education services throughout benton/franklin counties. Programs are directed toward the prevention of sexual assault and to raise the awareness of sexual violence. All programs are done in an age-appropriate manner and are sensitive to the audience's needs. Through the prevention program, sarc provided 1,013 presentations, reaching 23,451 individuals. We also reached an additional 82,129 individuals through an assortment of outreach efforts that included: resource fairs, mailings, social media & news media. Sarc's counseling program provides on-site trauma focused, evidence-based counseling therapy to people who have been affected by crime. Sarc's counseling program provided 1,184 therapy sessions to 143 people in our community who have been impacted by crime.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 88% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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: 85
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 34
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 95%; rating input score 95
  • Program expense ratio: 88.2%; rating input score 88
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 80.3%; rating input score 80; 34th 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: 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: Fail
    • 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: -7.7%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.52; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 9.7%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 95% of revenue deployed · 88.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.3M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $148K · 15 people listed
  • Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 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.
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: CEO compensation review process not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 38/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.