New Jersey · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY INC
CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,346,168 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($604,156). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.3M
- Funders on record
- 86
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $5.3M
What Center for Hope and Safety Inc does
Mission
Center for hope and safety, inc.'s ("chs") mission is to assist bergen county, nj victims and survivors of domestic violence, including emotional, economic, sexual and physical abuse. The agency provides emergency and transitional housing, emotional support, and a diversified continuum of services focused on safety, empowerment, and self-sufficiency. Through community partnerships, chs raises awareness, provides services, and educates community members about domestic violence.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Emergency shelter: core and support servicescenter for hope and safety, inc. Offers the community a 24-hour hotline for information and referral. The emergency shelter program provides safe and confidential shelter to victims of domestic violence by offering food and shelter and support through individual/group counseling, case management, legal advocacy, housing options, and bilingual services. The program houses approximately 150 victims for an average length of stay of three months. Special programs include an economic empowerment program which offers career counseling, financial literacy education, and housing counseling; a follow-up program which provides continued case management and a trusting link to help families successfully reintegrate into communities; domestic violence liaisons who consult with dcf families. Community education and training includes programs to organizations, businesses, colleges and local agencies.
$2,086,272 spent$153,585 earned by the program57% of program spendingThe transitional housing ("th") program serves as an interim step toward self-sufficiency for survivors graduating from the safe house. The program assits with providing safe, confidential, and affordable temporary housing to clients (and their children) who are ready to move forward from the shleter but could benefit from continued time and support to build independent living skills.four transitional residences located through bergen county offer the opportunity to develop indepedent living skills and pursue personal goals, often focused on vocational, financial, legal, and housing needs. The transitional housing team provides support for up to 2 years and then refers them to community services, in which they continue to receive assistance with case management, safety planning, and econmic empowerment services. Clients also have acess to project child and legal services.
$1,081,668 spent$129,144 earned by the program30% of program spendingChildren's services:children's services is designed to stabilize a child's enviroment and to counteract the effects of abuse by addressing the anxiety, depression, anger, aggression, self-esteem problems, and impaired social skill development that result from exposure to violence in the home. It includes activities and therapeutic support, homework support; case management services to assist with school registration, day care, and transportation; referrals to community services; and social-recreational activities.we offer an art therapy program to help children who come to the safe house experiencing chaotic circumstances as they adjust to a new enviroment. Individual and group therapy sessions provide children the opportunity to express themselves in a non-judmental, private setting, where the emphasis is placed on therapeutic experiences that are fun, teach appropriate behaviors, and build self-esteem.
$460,972 spent13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,628,912.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $5.1M to $5.8M (+12%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 64% · 2018 65% · 2020 67% · 2021 74% · 2022 66% · 2023 61% · 2024 70% · 2025 65%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Julye Myner
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 36 funders, grant income rose $250k → $405k.
18 of 86 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 86 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
40% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 24% · 2019 25% · 2020 17% · 2021 16% · 2022 16% · 2023 29% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
48% of CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY INC draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY INC is better cushioned than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25.1M on record — $5.7M federal, $19.4M state.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.2M
- Department of Justice$2.5M
- GRANT IN AID$14.6M
- FEDERAL$4.4M
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$283k
- DEDICATED$181k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY INC?
- CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,346,168 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($604,156). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 86 organizations giving $3,346,168 in grants to CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY INC, 54 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $604,156 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 86 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing