California · Nonprofit
Safe Alternatives To Violent Environments
Safe Alternatives To Violent Environments (California) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,898,641 to it, the largest being SUNLIGHT GIVING ($592,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Safe Alternatives To Violent Environments does
Mission
SAVE provides safety,support, and resources for people to live free from Intimate Partner Violence and engages communities in the work to end violence
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Housing Programs: Our Domestic Violence Housing (DVH) program is based at the Empowerment Center and provides services for survivors in need of assistance obtaining or maintaining safe and stable housing.Housing services include direct rental assistance and move-in costs as well as financial help with a wide range of other needs clients have that affect their ability to stay housed - car repairs, utility bills, household furnishings and more. Our Housing Case Managers provide ongoing case management support and advocacy, assistance with budgeting, employability and other needs that survivors have. Participants in the DVH program are welcome and encouraged to use the full range of SAVE services. In FY24/25, our DVHF program served 131 individuals with rental assistance, help with utilities and other household needs as well as ongoing case management and other supportive services.
$483,515 spentof which $150,627 as grants27% of program spendingCommunity Prevention, Outreach, and Youth Services-These innovative programs are designed to raise awareness about domestic violence and the resources available through SAVE. Our healthy relationships curriculum and specialized workshops reached 4,614 youth at local junior high and high schools, churches, and youth groups, promoting healthy dating habits and the prevention of intimate partner violence.An additional 2,390 youth and adults received vital information through various community outreach events and training sessions. SAVE's youth empowerment group, Team #StrongerThanYouThink, continues to raise awareness about healthy relationship dynamics and the realities of teen dating violence through consistent community- and campus-based engagement. On February 22, Team STYT hosted its 8th annual youth summit, Symbiosis, an intersectional event celebrating youth activism and empowering young people to build healthy relationships. The event was attended by more than 200 youth.
$235,659 spentof which $1,618 as grants13% of program spendingSafe House- SAVE's Safe House, located in a confidential location, continues to be a haven for families fleeing abuse. Residents receive supportive services during their stay, designed to help them heal and move toward healthy, safer lives. Extensively trained case managers and advocates work closely with residents to support them through the immediate crisis and to provide connections to healthcare, employment opportunities, educational resources, parenting assistance, and more. Our staff strives to meet both our clients' practical needs and to ensure that the environment we provide is culturally appropriate and sensitive to the trauma they have experienced. SAVE provided 6,740 nights of shelter to 66 survivors and their children during this fiscal period.
$382,484 spentof which $12,366 as grants$9,043 earned by the program22% of program spendingCrisis Response: Our Crisis Response team is made up of trained staff and volunteers who provide emotional support, crisis intervention services and support, and vital information and referrals around the clock via our 24-hour crisis line and at our Empowerment Center. Our Empowerment Center (EC) has become a vital community resource for individuals experiencing domestic violence. Our advocates provide walk-in services which include crisis counseling, assistance securing shelter, emergency food and clothing, aid to secure a temporary restraining order and access to other resources. Clients are encouraged to utilize the advocates for ongoing case management services, designed to help them address and overcome issues which may be barriers escaping domestic violence. In FY 24/25, 211 survivors received in-person response services at our Empowerment Center and 128 of them received 328 case management sessions. The Crisis Response Team also staff our 24-hour crisis line which is often the first step survivors take to get help. Our goal with every call is to ensure that survivors end the call feeling safer and with the knowledge that SAVE is source of ongoing assistance. Our crisis…
$673,714 spentof which $259,246 as grants38% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,775,372.
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 2019 to 2020, from $2.2M to $2.8M (+26%).
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 69% · 2018 72% · 2019 75% · 2020 72% · 2021 76% · 2022 70% · 2023 75% · 2024 78% · 2025 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Safe Alternatives To Violent Environments’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% 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.
Chief executive
Jennifer Dow Rowell
Executive Director
Board chair
Shamont Hussey
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $222k → $510k.
14 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 Safe Alternatives To Violent Environments’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
Safe Alternatives To Violent Environments has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
53% 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 Safe Alternatives To Violent Environments.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 21% · 2019 31% · 2020 26% · 2021 39% · 2022 23% · 2023 38% — 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
50% of Safe Alternatives To Violent Environments's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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 Safe Alternatives To Violent Environments's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $762k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
Safe Alternatives To Violent Environments holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters 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 Safe Alternatives To Violent Environments receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.7M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.7M
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 Safe Alternatives To Violent Environments
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 Safe Alternatives To Violent Environments: 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 Safe Alternatives To Violent Environments?
- Safe Alternatives To Violent Environments (California) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,898,641 to it, the largest being SUNLIGHT GIVING ($592,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Safe Alternatives To Violent Environments have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $2,898,641 in grants to Safe Alternatives To Violent Environments, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Safe Alternatives To Violent Environments?
- SUNLIGHT GIVING is the largest funder on record, with $592,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Safe Alternatives To Violent Environments find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 34 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