Victims Assistance Center of Jefferson County Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 161119247
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Watertown, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3157821823
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Violence Shelters
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,739,686
- Expenses
- $3,206,221
- Assets
- $5,463,287
- Liabilities
- $669,553
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JESSICA HYDE (PRESIDENT)
- CHRISTINA CHAMBERLAIN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- AMY QUONCE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- AMY QUONCE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $122,096 total reported compensation
- AMBER JACKSON (FINANCE DIRECTOR): $37,335 total reported compensation
- PHIL KNEELAND (FORMER FINANCE DIRECTOR): $29,888 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To assist and provide direct services to victims/survivors of violence and crime in jefferson county.
What it reported doing in 2025
Non-residential program services: 1) 24-hour telephone hotline - crisis intervention, emotional support, advocacy, shelter admission, and information/referral.2) advocacy - 24-hour assistance to victims of violence that includes safety planning, criminal justice system, medical, housing, and social services.3) counseling- counseling to victims and secondary victims of violence and crime. Services are provided in both individual and group settings.4)immediate response team - response team advocates respond to the scene of a domestic or sexual assault with law enforcement to provide immediate advocacy, crisis intervention, and information/referral services.5) child advocacy center of northern ny - this program provides direct services to child victims of sexual assault and physical abuse and non-offending family members, using a multidisciplinary team approach at a single point of contact. Services are provided by law enforcement, the district attorney's office, the victims assistance center, child protective services and one local medical facility.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 71% 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.7%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 78.7%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $28.78 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 68; 68th 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: 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: 14.3%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.7; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.9%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.7% of revenue deployed · 78.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $122K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.