Women in Safe Homes

Analysis

Women in Safe Homes is a registered charity in United States, based in Ketchikan, AK. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1979, 47 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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, Women in Safe Homes reported income of $3.3m and spending of $3.0m, spending 90% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $1.6m to $3.3m (+103%), an average of +19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 93%. Over the whole period it spent 84% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Women in Safe Homes sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile, and in the 90th percentile within AK. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ad Hoc Group Against Crime ($3.3m), Achiezer Community Resource Center Inc ($3.3m) and Northampton Survival Center Inc ($3.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 101% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $107k (3.6% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.3m. At year end it held assets of $3.2m against liabilities of $532k, net assets of $2.7m. It reported 35 employees.