The Safe Children Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 461358388
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2013
- Location
- Fairfax, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7033855437
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,796,360
- Expenses
- $2,006,257
- Assets
- $2,377,933
- Liabilities
- $842,023
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
28 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JESSICA L GREIS-EDWARDSON (PRESIDENT)
- DENISE BALZANO (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
- CHARLIE PRICE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- HEATHER O'MALLEY (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- HEATHER O'MALLEY (CEO): $124,009 total reported compensation
- LINDSEY KERBER (CLINICAL DIRECTOR): $106,078 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of safespot children's advocacy center is to provide a safe environment and support services for child abuse victims and their families as they navigate the investigation and aftermath of abuse.
What it reported doing in 2025
Forensic interviewing: when police or child protective services receive a report that a child has been physically or sexually abused, or has witnessed a violent crime, the child is brought to safespot for a forensic interview that is made available to all agencies involved in investigating and prosecuting the abuse. The goal of the forensic interview is to gather information that evaluates the child's safety, assesses the need for medical or psychological care, corroborates or refutes allegations of abuse, and identifies the involvement of - or risk to - other children. These carefully coordinated interviews eliminate the need for children to be repeatedly questioned about their experiences, which can add to the trauma of their abuse.
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 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 80.4%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.09 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 20; 20th 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; 64th 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: -11.7%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.19; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.35; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.5%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.1% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.7% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.2% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90% of revenue deployed · 80.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 26 of 26 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $124K · 28 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.