Women in Safe Homes Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 920069501
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Ketchikan, AK, USA
- Phone
- 9072259474
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Violence Shelters
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,567,915
- Expenses
- $2,737,276
- Assets
- $3,690,701
- Liabilities
- $611,390
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- JOSEPH KOVAC (ATTORNEY): $108,067 total reported compensation
- AGNES MORAN (EXEC DIRECTO): $102,529 total reported compensation
- ADRIENNE GAINES (EXEC DIRECTO): $94,444 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Women in safe homes (wish) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing essential support services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and other violent crimes. Wish is located in ketchikan and serves over 17 communities in southern southeast Alaska. These include the communities of ketchikan, saxman, wrangell, prince of wales island, metlakatla, and hyder. Currently, wish has a 30bed facility that is open 7 days a week, 24 hours each day. Services provided cross all racial, ethnic, economic, and social groups. Our clients range in age from infant to the elderly with diverse psychological, emotional, and physical abilities/needs. Wish also routinely serves women in various stages of pregnancy. Wish is the only dv organization with the ability to work at this capacity in southern southeast Alaska.
What it reported doing in 2024
Community services - provides support to families and youth that have experienced violence. Services for at-risk families include parent coaching, parenting classes, advocacy, general financial support, connection to needed services and family and individual counseling. Counseling services are provided in the school setting as well as at the community services building. Community services operates elinore's place, a child advocacy center that provides comprehensive services for children that have experienced sexual or physical abuse in southern southeastern Alaska. Services include a multidisciplinary team, forensic interviews, counseling, advocacy and support through the legal process.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 94% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 92% 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 95.6%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd 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 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.6%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.35; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.1%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.2% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 95.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $108K · 11 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $260K reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.