Safe Passages

Analysis

Safe Passages is a registered charity in United States, based in Oakland, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover crime and legal-related, which this site groups under human rights and equality. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Safe Passages reported income of $15.1m and spending of $12.3m, spending 81% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $4.7m to $15.1m (+222%), an average of +34% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 59%. Over the whole period it spent 84% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, Safe Passages sits at the 98th percentile: it is larger than about 98% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile, and in the 97th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Access Now ($15.0m), Collaborative Solutions for Communities ($15.1m) and Choices Behavioral Health Care ($15.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 92% and program service revenue 6.9% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $5.6m. At year end it held assets of $13.7m against liabilities of $4.3m, net assets of $9.4m. It reported 232 employees.