Virginia · Nonprofit
HANOVER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HANOVER SAFE PLACE
HANOVER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HANOVER SAFE PLACE (Virginia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,277,705 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND & PETERSBURG ($487,519). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Hanover Domestic Violence Hanover Safe Place does
Mission
The mission of hanover safe place is to prevent domestic violence and sexual assualt, provide services for victims, and create community awareness around these issues.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Interpersonal violenceprovides crisis intervention services to survivors of sexual and domestic violence and stalking to include 24 hour hotline, emergency shelter, case management, counseling, and community based advocacy services. Specific achievements include: sheltering 40 clients for a total of 1,916 nights of safe shelter; responding to 3,970 hotline calls; providing 319 adults and children with community based case management and advocacy services; and supporting 172 clients with counseling services. Hanover safe place spent 4,187 hours of one-on-one direct client time, assisting victims of sexual and domestic violence on their healing journey.
$1,172,196 spent100% of program spendingCommunity outreachhanover safe place is dedicated to providing outreach and education in relation to domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking. We offer a variety of educational presentations that are available free of charge to members of the community, schools, civic organizations, service providers, faith communities and more. These include, but are not limited to community education on domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking and the services provided by hanover safe place. Additionally, we offer presentations/workshops to enhance healthy relationships for youth and young adults and breaking the cycle of domestic violence. Specifically, hanover safe place participated in 430 awareness activities reaching 81,696 individuals and provided 61 educational events with 843 participants. Additionally, hanover safe place utilized 68 volunteers who donated 1,641 hours of their time to provide needed assistance to our agency and the families we serve.
Community outreachthe goal of community outreach and education is to enhance the knowledge and resources regarding hsp services for sexual and domestic violence, dating violence and stalking. 114,774 people reached through 83 outreach programs. 93 volunteers donated time. 870 volunteer hours given. We supported hanover coutny families in need with "hsp cares', a program designed to assist residents with short-term rent, mortgage, utilities, and food during fall 2020. Funding for program was provided by hanover county government.
Court advocacy provides accompaniment and advocacy services for protective orders and criminal cases to victims of sexual assault and domestic violence.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,172,196.
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 2024 to 2025, from $913k to $1.1M (+23%).
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 76% · 2018 78% · 2019 74% · 2020 77% · 2021 75% · 2022 78% · 2023 84% · 2024 76% · 2025 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of HANOVER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HANOVER SAFE PLACE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Sara Shelton
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $125k → $176k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 HANOVER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HANOVER SAFE PLACE’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
HANOVER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HANOVER SAFE PLACE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% 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 HANOVER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HANOVER SAFE PLACE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 37% · 2019 93% · 2020 25% · 2021 29% · 2022 41% · 2023 34% — 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
60% of HANOVER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HANOVER SAFE PLACE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 85% 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
100% of HANOVER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HANOVER SAFE PLACE's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $169k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
HANOVER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HANOVER SAFE PLACE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HANOVER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HANOVER SAFE PLACE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $409k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$409k
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 HANOVER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HANOVER SAFE PLACE
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HANOVER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HANOVER SAFE PLACE?
- HANOVER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HANOVER SAFE PLACE (Virginia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,277,705 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND & PETERSBURG ($487,519). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HANOVER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HANOVER SAFE PLACE have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,277,705 in grants to HANOVER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HANOVER SAFE PLACE, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HANOVER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HANOVER SAFE PLACE?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND & PETERSBURG is the largest funder on record, with $487,519 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HANOVER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HANOVER SAFE PLACE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 13 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