Victim Assistance Program Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 383142753
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Akron, OH, USA
- Phone
- 3303767022
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,152,211
- Expenses
- $2,289,261
- Assets
- $2,463,527
- Liabilities
- $672,734
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LEANNE GRAHAM (PRESIDENT &)
Highest reported compensation
- LEANNE GRAHAM (PRESIDENT &): $113,745 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Since 1972, victim assistance empowers our community to restore lives impacted by crisis, violence, and tragedy. Our purpose is to provide crisis intervention, advocacy and education to victims of crime and trauma and to the professional community who serves this population. Our vision is a world where all victims are healed.
What it reported doing in 2024
After addressing a victim's acute crisis through crisis intervention, advocates contact clients within 24 to 48 hours to check in, reassess safety, and offer advocacy services. Victim advocacy empowers clients to establish a plan of action (also known as a case management) to address the impact trauma has, or may have, on their life or their families' lives. Advocacy services are provided in the home, in a vap office, or any other location where the victim feels safe and comfortable enough to do so. If criminal charges are filed, advocates walk alongside victims through all phases of the criminal justice process, from the initial arraignment hearing to case disposition. In addition to criminal cases, when clients seek civil action though protection orders to increase their safety, they are referred by law enforcement and the clerk of courts to meet with a victim advocate. Both personal and legal advocacy incorporates non legal education and information to allow each client to make informed decisions about their individual and family situation. As children are not permitted in the courtroom, clients seeking services through the summit county court of common pleas utilize our free children who witness violence drop-in center when childcare is a barrier. Children ages 6 weeks - 18 engage in trauma informed age-appropriate activities allowing clients to accomplish court related matters alongside a supportive victim advocate.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 70% 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.
- 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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.4%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 80.2%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $19.15 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 58; 58th 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: 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: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.4%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.08; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.27; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.5% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.4% of revenue deployed · 80.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $114K · 23 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 58/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 54/100.