Illinois · Nonprofit
SAFE PASSAGE INC
SAFE PASSAGE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,222,822 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT ($6,053,847). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.2M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What Safe Passage Inc does
Mission
To prevent domestic violence and sexual assault in dekalb county
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Partner abuse intervention program: this program is designed to address violence and abusive behavior. Participants in this program are required to complete 26 group sessions. Staff educate participants about the causes and forms of domestic violence; provide skills for handling immediate conflict without becoming abusive; promote attitudes that are associated with non- abusive behavior and challenge attitudes that are associated with abusive behavior. This program works closely with victim services and is certified by dhs.
$224,924 spent$80,097 earned by the program6% of program spendingDomestic violence program services: (1) emergency shelter for survivors and their vulnerable family members: the emergency shelter provides survivors with a safe, protective temporary residence and the related necessities such as food and clothing. We have 21 beds in our emergency shelter. (2) transitional shelter: clients may stay for two years during which time they work with family advocates to develop and work on goals toward independence. Clients are also required to attend individual counseling and group counseling regarding domestic violence at safe passage. We currently have ten apartments. (3) 24 hour response to calls from the hotline: calls from the illinois domestic violence help line and walk-in services to provide crisis intervention that meets the urgent physical and emotional needs of survivors. (4) information and referral: assists survivors in obtaining other services and resources in the community. (5) counseling services: we provide counseling / peer support and therapeutic counseling (individual and group) for both children and adults. (6) advocacy: we provide individual advocacy (speaking on behalf of an individual to ensure rights and safety), legal/court…
$2,441,945 spent70% of program spendingSexual assault program services: (1) 24 hour hotline and 24 hour access to crisis intervention: we respond to calls and walk-in clients 24 hours/day 365 days/year. (2) information and referral: we are a source for information and referral for victims, significant others and the public on sexual assault including other resources. (3) individual medical advocacy: we provide in-person support and information to victims at medical facilities 24 hours/day. (4) individual criminal justice advocacy: we provide 24 hour advocacy for victims with police, state attorney and the court system. This service provides the victim with emotional support and accompaniment throughout the criminal proceedings. (5) individual advocacy: we provide advocacy for victims with other systems, coordinating services and ensuring victim's rights. (6) in-person counseling: we provide individual and group counseling for both children and adults. (7) professional training: we provide education, skills building and evaluation of skills to prepare other professionals to effectively intervene on behalf of victims with their institutions. (8) education: we provide education to the community regarding sexual assault in…
$830,996 spent24% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,497,865.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.4M to $3.5M (+42%).
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 78% · 2018 83% · 2019 81% · 2020 82% · 2021 73% · 2022 60% · 2023 86% · 2024 80% · 2025 86%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of SAFE PASSAGE 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. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $593k → $1.8M.
12 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 PASSAGE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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 PASSAGE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
96% 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 PASSAGE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 46% · 2019 41% · 2020 45% · 2021 38% · 2022 65% · 2023 49% — 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
50% of SAFE PASSAGE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
99% of SAFE PASSAGE INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 PASSAGE INC runs a healthier operating margin 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 SAFE PASSAGE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.5M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.5M
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 PASSAGE 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 Illinois
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
99%
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 PASSAGE 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 SAFE PASSAGE INC?
- SAFE PASSAGE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,222,822 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT ($6,053,847). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAFE PASSAGE INC have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $12,222,822 in grants to SAFE PASSAGE INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAFE PASSAGE INC?
- ILLINOIS COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT is the largest funder on record, with $6,053,847 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAFE PASSAGE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 31 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