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SHELTER AVAILABLE FOR FAMILY EMERGENCY (SAFE) INC

SHELTER AVAILABLE FOR FAMILY EMERGENCY (SAFE) INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $643,817 to it, the largest being Lake Toxaway Charities ($275,117). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.3M
Revenue FY2025
14
Funders on record
$644k
Grants received
$3.6M
Net assets
5/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%

Against its field

SHELTER AVAILABLE FOR FAMILY EMERGENCY (SAFE) INC is better cushioned than half of the 5,983 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−13% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,983 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($857k) Expenses 100 ($818k) Net assets 100 ($2.9M)2018 Revenue 133 ($1.1M) Expenses 139 ($1.1M) Net assets 101 ($3.0M)2019 Revenue 146 ($1.3M) Expenses 149 ($1.2M) Net assets 102 ($3.0M)2020 Revenue 146 ($1.3M) Expenses 144 ($1.2M) Net assets 101 ($3.0M)2021 Revenue 213 ($1.8M) Expenses 151 ($1.2M) Net assets 127 ($3.7M)2022 Revenue 176 ($1.5M) Expenses 160 ($1.3M) Net assets 127 ($3.7M)2023 Revenue 158 ($1.4M) Expenses 155 ($1.3M) Net assets 130 ($3.8M)2024 Revenue 120 ($1.0M) Expenses 146 ($1.2M) Net assets 125 ($3.7M)2025 Revenue 147 ($1.3M) Expenses 174 ($1.4M) Net assets 122 ($3.6M)
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Revenue (147)Expenses (174)Net assets (122)Peer revenue range

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.

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2018
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 36% · 2018 44% · 2019 48% · 2020 72% · 2021 70% · 2022 62% · 2023 63% · 2024 66% · 2025 58%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

82% of SHELTER AVAILABLE FOR FAMILY EMERGENCY (SAFE) INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,740 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$39k
17
$9k
18
$32k
19
$74k
20
$592k
21
$200k
22
$82k
23
$161k
24
$158k
25
4.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $38k → $150k.

7 of 14 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 SHELTER AVAILABLE FOR FAMILY EMERGENCY (SAFE) INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 14 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

SHELTER AVAILABLE FOR FAMILY EMERGENCY (SAFE) INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

85% 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 SHELTER AVAILABLE FOR FAMILY EMERGENCY (SAFE) INC.

43%
largest funder
85%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 100% · 2019 48% · 2020 95% · 2021 100% · 2022 70% · 2023 80%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

29% of SHELTER AVAILABLE FOR FAMILY EMERGENCY (SAFE) INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% give in more than one year at all.

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

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 SHELTER AVAILABLE FOR FAMILY EMERGENCY (SAFE) INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

NC
SC
TX

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

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North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $81k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 14 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like SHELTER AVAILABLE FOR FAMILY EMERGENCY (SAFE) INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In North Carolina

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 26%Fundraising 4%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

93%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SHELTER AVAILABLE FOR FAMILY EMERGENCY (SAFE) 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds SHELTER AVAILABLE FOR FAMILY EMERGENCY (SAFE) INC?
SHELTER AVAILABLE FOR FAMILY EMERGENCY (SAFE) INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $643,817 to it, the largest being Lake Toxaway Charities ($275,117). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SHELTER AVAILABLE FOR FAMILY EMERGENCY (SAFE) INC have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $643,817 in grants to SHELTER AVAILABLE FOR FAMILY EMERGENCY (SAFE) INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SHELTER AVAILABLE FOR FAMILY EMERGENCY (SAFE) INC?
Lake Toxaway Charities is the largest funder on record, with $275,117 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SHELTER AVAILABLE FOR FAMILY EMERGENCY (SAFE) INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 14funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing