Survivors and Victims Empowered
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 860676254
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Lancaster, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7172077190
- Rating
- 48
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Child Abuse, Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,593,900
- Expenses
- $3,512,848
- Assets
- $22,308
- Liabilities
- $1,415,539
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- James J Hughes Jr (Executive Director/President)
Highest reported compensation
- James J Hughes Jr (Executive Director/President): $233,539 total reported compensation
- Linda Scott-Patterson (Asst Sec-Treas): $88,195 total reported compensation
- LPhilip Sheldon Jr (Chairman): $35,226 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
All legal non-profit purposes, including child abuse prevention and recovery, drug abuse prevention and recovery, domestic violence prevention and recovery, foster care support, general education, trauma recovery, and all related issues.
What it reported doing in 2024
Public awareness, education and advocacy
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 35
- Transparency & Controls: 64
- Accountability: 68
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 37.9%; rating input score 38
- Program expense ratio: 38.8%; rating input score 39
- Fundraising efficiency: $1.91 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 77.9%; rating input score 78; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 60%; rating input score 60; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: 2.3%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 63.45; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.3%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -14.3% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7.8% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -36.4% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 37.9% of revenue deployed · 38.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 5 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $234K · 7 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $2.9M reported
- Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 38/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 39/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.