Women's and Children's Crisis Shelter
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 953315186
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Whittier, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5629453937
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Violence Shelters
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,745,679
- Expenses
- $2,017,647
- Assets
- $1,435,491
- Liabilities
- $107,896
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AMANDA BENAVIDES (PRESIDENT)
- KYRA SCHOONOVER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- DULCEMONICA DELGADO (PAST PRESIDENT)
- GIOVANNA MARTINEZ (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- ELIZABETH CONTRERAS-MARTINEZ (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR TIL 1/3/25)
Highest reported compensation
- ELIZABETH CONTRERAS-MARTINEZ (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR TIL 1/3/25): $137,381 total reported compensation
- CRISTINA CORTES (INTERIM EXCECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $9,117 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's and children's crisis shelter is committed to providing safety, shelter and hope to victims of domestic violence.
What it reported doing in 2024
Emergency shelter for victims/survivors and their children: wccs operates a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week, safe, and confidential emergency shelter for survivors and their children pursuant to penal code 13823.15(f)(15)(b). Intakes are conducted by phone. Wccs accommodates emergency shelter on a 24-hour basis for survivors of domestic violence and their children, including but not limited to hotel and motel arrangements, havens, and safe houses. For those who do not desire emergency shelter or cannot be accommodated at the shelter, provisions are made for interim shelter. Clients are admitted to the emergency shelter based on need and availability; a client may elect to stay for up to 45 days. The shelter has 28 beds and three cribs. They are wheelchair and ada compliant, serving all classes, cultures, and religions regardless of economic circumstances, age, physical or mental disabilities, substance abuse issues, or immigration status, including the traditionally underserved populations of women of color, lgbtqia+, older adults, and women with HIV or other medical conditions. Services are offered in spanish and english and are free of charge. The shelter is at a confidential location and is staffed 24 hours, and seven days a week.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 61% 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 70%; rating input score 70
- Fundraising efficiency: $22.3 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 61; 61st 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 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: -15.6%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.71; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.3%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81% of revenue deployed · 70% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $137K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 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 12/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 46/100.