Options Domestic and Sexual Violence Services Inc

Analysis

Options Domestic and Sexual Violence Services Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Hays, KS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1984, 42 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Options Domestic and Sexual Violence Services Inc reported income of $1.2m and spending of $1.3m, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $866k to $1.2m (+38%), an average of +8.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 29%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Options Domestic and Sexual Violence Services Inc sits at the 77th percentile: it is larger than about 77% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within KS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Passage of Youth Family Center Inc ($1.2m), Soar ($1.2m) and Childrens Learning Center Inc ($1.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $76k (5.8% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $682k. It paid $86k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $558k against liabilities of $190k, net assets of $368k. It reported 34 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.