Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Domestic Violence Center of Chester County
Domestic Violence Center of Chester County (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,418,580 to it, the largest being PENNSYLVANIA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ($6,942,558). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $9.4M
- Net assets
- $4.3M
What Domestic Violence Center of Chester County does
Mission
THE MISSION OF THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF CHESTER COUNTY IS TO REDUCE domestic violence by supporting survivors and advancing prevention strategies.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Housing services: designed to meet basic needs. Dvccc has four housing programs: emergency shelter/safe house; bridge transitional housing; four one-bedroom apartments; phase iv independent living (13 three bedroom townhomes). These programs are designed to give the clients a foundation so they can strengthen their ability to become safe and financially independent, with the goal of steady employment and permanent housing.
$1,034,683 spentof which $109,230 as grants$1,775 earned by the program38% of program spendingLegal services: designed to strengthen families. Services include legal options counseling, advice and representation in protection from abuse cases, custody, support, bankruptcy, immigration and other civil matters.
$658,253 spent24% of program spendingAdult counseling program: designed to empower victims and strengthen families affected by the trauma of domestic violence. Services are provided via 24 hour crisis hotline, individual and group trauma-informed counseling. Referrals to other service organizations are provided as needed.
$511,551 spent19% of program spendingChildren's programs: designed to empower victims and strengthen families. The program seeks to mediate the effects of domestic violence on children of survivors by providing age appropriate and bilingual safety plans; individual and group counseling, parenting skills and workshops, and school liaison services to assist children who have to leave or enroll in a school due to their situation of domestic violence. Public education and training (includes cbim, lap and cgbg): designed to promote social responsibility by developing a coordinated community response to domestic violence. Dvccc proactively seeks out opportunities to provide information on recognizing abusive relationships and the wide range of services available to victims. A strong focus of our education is dating violence awareness presentations to high schools and colleges. Coaching boys into men (cbim): designed to use the power of sports to promote an environment of respect, integrity, and non-violence to high school athletes. Dvccc trains local high school coaches on how to implement the coaching boys into men curriculum. The 12-week program fits into the sports season and provides each coach with a guide for…
$505,887 spent19% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,710,374.
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 2017 to 2018, from $3.5M to $4.0M (+17%).
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 61% · 2018 78% · 2019 71% · 2020 70% · 2021 77% · 2022 69% · 2023 69% · 2024 69% · 2025 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of Domestic Violence Center of Chester County’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. 4 of the last 9 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
Dolly Wideman-Scott
Chief Executive Officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $934k → $1.1M.
10 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 Domestic Violence Center of Chester County’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 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
Domestic Violence Center of Chester County leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 Domestic Violence Center of Chester County.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 76% · 2019 80% · 2020 63% · 2021 79% · 2022 73% · 2023 69% — growing more concentrated.
“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
61% of Domestic Violence Center of Chester County's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
95% of Domestic Violence Center of Chester County's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $747k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Domestic Violence Center of Chester County is better cushioned than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Domestic Violence Center of Chester County receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $772k on record.
- Department of Justice$772k
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 Domestic Violence Center of Chester County
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Domestic Violence Center Phase IV LLC - · disregarded
- Garfield Commons LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Domestic Violence Center of Chester County: 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 Domestic Violence Center of Chester County?
- Domestic Violence Center of Chester County (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,418,580 to it, the largest being PENNSYLVANIA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ($6,942,558). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Domestic Violence Center of Chester County have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $9,418,580 in grants to Domestic Violence Center of Chester County, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Domestic Violence Center of Chester County?
- PENNSYLVANIA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE is the largest funder on record, with $6,942,558 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Domestic Violence Center of Chester County find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 47 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing