Sexual Assault Help Center
Legal name: The Upper Ohio Valley Sexual Assault Hel P Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 550616563
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2016
- Location
- Wheeling, WV, US
- Phone
- 304-234-1783
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Rape Victim Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $762,938
- Expenses
- $739,794
- Assets
- $380,842
- Liabilities
- $46,875
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- COLLEEN MEGNA (VICE PRESIDENT)
- LESLIE VASSILAROS (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ASHLEY CARPENTER (EXECTIVE DIRECTOR): $58,213 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Upper Ohio Valley Sexual Assault Help Center's (SAHC) mission is to ignite social change to end sexual violence, stalking, and human trafficking. SAHC seeks to create pathways to healing for those with lived experiences and to cultivate an inclusive community through prevention education and equitable public policies.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Upper Ohio Valley Sexual Assult Help Center has advocates who will work with incarcerated victims and survivors within the Northern Regional Jail in Marshall County. We provide confidential support to these inmates through phone calls, letters, and one-on-one visits. Also, to work with family members whose loved one has been assaulted behind bars.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 90% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.7%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 94.6%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: $143.09 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.51; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.9%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.2% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.9% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.2% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 5 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 91.7% of revenue deployed · 94.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $700K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $58K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 22 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 44/100.