Victim Resource Center of the Finger Lakes Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 161208385
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Newark, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3153311171
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Victims' Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,203,320
- Expenses
- $1,274,496
- Assets
- $911,931
- Liabilities
- $274,208
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SARAH WILLIAMS BEG 1124 (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- AMY PAULEY THROUGH 1124 (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- AMY PAULEY THROUGH 1124 (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $94,533 total reported compensation
- SARAH WILLIAMS BEG 1124 (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $82,348 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide support and guidance to victims of sex crimes, family abuse and domestic violence, to provide crisis intervention with regard to sexual assault and domestic violence, and to provide temporary shelter to victims.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provide crisis intervention and support services to survivors of domestic violence crime with assistance and advocacy, to provide a temporary shelter to victims of domestic violence, and to provide crisis intervention and support services to individuals involved in sexual assault crimes.
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 85% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.8%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 76.2%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 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: -5.9%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.72; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.3; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.9%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.6% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.8% of revenue deployed · 76.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $971K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $95K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 35 of 36 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 22/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.