Valencia Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence

What it reported doing in 2024

Valencia shelter services (vss) is a private, non-profit, 501 c 3 organization in valencia county, nm. Vss was founded in 1989 and has been committed to serving individuals and families in valencia county and surrounding areas. Vss service area to include valencia, torrance, socorro, and catron counties, including isleta and laguna pueblos. Vss provides comprehensive services to individuals and families affected by domestic violence, sexual assault, and child abuse and neglect. Our mission is to help individuals affected by violence in their efforts to move their lives forward. We seek social change to end violence through community awareness, engagement, and education. Vss diverse board, leadership, and staff mirror the demographics of the clients we serve. We strive to provide all services in a trauma- informed, culturally competent, and sensitive environment with strong values placed upon operating with a client-centered approach. To meet that need of our community, vss has created an array of services to serve at any a place of their healing journey.vss provides in-depth, comprehensive services to survivors, including survivors who are presently incarcerated in valencia county. By leveraging other funding sources vss provides confidential comprehensive services including crisis intervention, emergency shelter, legal advocacy, advocacy and support, case management, individual and group therapy, community outreach, child advocacy center services to include forensic interview services and multidisciplinary team facilitation along with case tracking, prea advocacy both in person and virtually, and sane medical forensic services. During fy2025, valencia shelter services (vss) continued our mission to provide crisis intervention, comprehensive victim services, hope, justice, and healing to survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and child abuse, and to make systemic change to end demographical and generational cycles of abuse. Vss supported a total of 1913 survivors and families this year. Services provided to those survivors are as follows: 1,218 crisis intervention services that included individual safety planning, 5,491 emergency shelter bed nights that included 1,107 sessions of skills and knowledge services, 13,818 rapid-rehousing bed nights that included 3,251 sessions of individual case management, 264 child centered forensic interview to obtain child abuse disclosures, 600 sessions of multidisciplinary coordination service for child abuse and neglect cases, 993 group therapy and 281 individual therapy services, and 132 sane services that include advocacy and support. Vss proudly provided 417 sessions of bilingual services to survivors and their families.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 94.3%; rating input score 94
• Program expense ratio: 87.7%; rating input score 88
• Fundraising efficiency: $25.64 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 66; 66th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Fail
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -7.5%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.45; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.35; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 2.8%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 16.8% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings