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SAFEPLACE

SAFEPLACE (Iowa) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,102,864 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF SIOUXLAND INC ($1,519,482). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.5M
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$2.1M
Net assets
$1.9M
14/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%
01What it does

What Safeplace does

Mission

Safeplace provides support, advocacy, and a safe environment to empower adults and children who have experienced domestic violence or sexual assault.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Shelter for battered women and their children. Crisis hotline accompaniment, counseling and support groups for domestically abused people. Outreach and referral.

    $900,286 spent
    70% of program spending
  2. Comprehensive domestic abuse services for battered women and their children. Counseling and support groups for domestically abused people. Outreach and referral.

    $280,589 spent
    22% of program spending
  3. Transition services provide assistance with safe, affordable housing.

    $109,255 spent$43,048 earned by the program
    8% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,290,130.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.9M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($2.1M)2018 Revenue 88 ($1.6M) Expenses 99 ($1.6M) Net assets 102 ($2.2M)2019 Revenue 93 ($1.7M) Expenses 107 ($1.7M) Net assets 101 ($2.2M)2020 Revenue 85 ($1.6M) Expenses 104 ($1.7M) Net assets 95 ($2.0M)2021 Revenue 96 ($1.8M) Expenses 108 ($1.8M) Net assets 98 ($2.1M)2022 Revenue 86 ($1.6M) Expenses 98 ($1.6M) Net assets 97 ($2.1M)2023 Revenue 77 ($1.4M) Expenses 93 ($1.5M) Net assets 94 ($2.0M)2024 Revenue 70 ($1.3M) Expenses 86 ($1.4M) Net assets 89 ($1.9M)2025 Revenue 82 ($1.5M) Expenses 95 ($1.6M) Net assets 89 ($1.9M)
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Revenue (82)Expenses (95)Net assets (89)

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 $2.0M to $2.1M (+8%).

$2.3M
$2.4M
$2.3M
$2.2M
$2.2M
$2.1M
$2.1M
$2.0M
$2.1M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 58% · 2018 70% · 2019 73% · 2020 72% · 2021 76% · 2022 74% · 2023 70% · 2024 67% · 2025 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$231k
’17
$30k
’18
−$10k
’19
−$114k
’20
$27k
’21
$2k
’22
−$67k
’23
−$103k
’24
−$27k
’25
6.0
months of
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

Stephanie Pickinpaugh

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed211817141215161513
Joined·+5+6+6+1+5+7+4+3
No longer listed·87932655
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $219k → $198k.

2 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 SAFEPLACE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 17 of 18 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

SAFEPLACE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

95% 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 SAFEPLACE.

72%
largest funder
91%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 74% · 2019 71% · 2020 49% · 2021 62% · 2022 85% · 2023 79% — 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

54% of SAFEPLACE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

97% of SAFEPLACE's grant income comes from Iowa funders.

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WI
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IA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Iowa out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $124k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding SAFEPLACE receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record.

Federal$1.5M
grants $1.5Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.5M

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 SAFEPLACE

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 Iowa

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 11%Fundraising 6%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds SAFEPLACE?
SAFEPLACE (Iowa) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,102,864 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF SIOUXLAND INC ($1,519,482). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SAFEPLACE have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $2,102,864 in grants to SAFEPLACE, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SAFEPLACE?
UNITED WAY OF SIOUXLAND INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,519,482 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SAFEPLACE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 18 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