Ohio · Nonprofit
VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC
VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC (Ohio) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,754,984 to it, the largest being AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($622,442). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Victim Assistance Program Inc does
Mission
Since 1972, victim assistance empowers our community to restore lives impacted by crisis, violence, and tragedy. Our purpose is to provide crisis intervention, advocacy and education to victims of crime and trauma and to the professional community who serves this population. Our vision is a world where all victims are healed.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Free non-clinical crisis intervention is provided in person, via sms text, online chat, and via phone (hotline) 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to summit county residents and employees who voluntarily seek assistance. Advocates address safety and security, allow the client to vent and be validated about their reactions and responses to trauma, and predict and prepare the client to address basic human needs to overcome the aftermath of the traumatization. Clients are empowered to develop an individualized safety plan and plan of action to regain the control that was lost as a result of their trauma. Finally, crisis intervention incorporates information, education, and referrals to ensure clients are provided holistic wrap around services for the entire family. Although most crisis intervention is provided on the hotline, the most unique accessibility point and only one of its kind in summit county, is immediately following the traumatic experience. Clients receive crisis intervention at the scene of the crime/traumatic incident or in the hospital upon request from law enforcement, fire/ems, the medical examiner's office, or hospital personnel. Otherwise, victims may walk into any…
$624,659 spent34% of program spendingAfter addressing a victim's acute crisis through crisis intervention, advocates contact clients within 24 to 48 hours to check in, reassess safety, and offer advocacy services. Victim advocacy empowers clients to establish a plan of action (also known as a case management) to address the impact trauma has, or may have, on their life or their families' lives. Advocacy services are provided in the home, in a vap office, or any other location where the victim feels safe and comfortable enough to do so. If criminal charges are filed, advocates walk alongside victims through all phases of the criminal justice process, from the initial arraignment hearing to case disposition. In addition to criminal cases, when clients seek civil action though protection orders to increase their safety, they are referred by law enforcement and the clerk of courts to meet with a victim advocate. Both personal and legal advocacy incorporates non legal education and information to allow each client to make informed decisions about their individual and family situation. As children are not permitted in the courtroom, clients seeking services through the summit county court of common pleas utilize our free…
$974,919 spent53% of program spendingTo ensure victims are receiving comprehensive and trauma informed services, victim assistance program staff and volunteers undergo extensive training. An emphasis on education prepares victim advocates to be equipped with the necessary knowledge and skills to utilize best practice and evidence-based techniques to fully serve victims. Victim assistance program provides ongoing education to staff, volunteers, interns, and community professionals through our own summit victim assistance academy program. The community contracts with the summit victim assistance academy for one of three offered fee-for-service programs. From across the us and canada, individuals and agencies purchase either the essentials of victim advocacy, a 44-hour hybrid learning model created to prepare individuals of all disciplines to comprehensively assist victims of crime/trauma, corporate essentials, a 12-hour course intended to provide employees with required crisis intervention skills for in office use, and customizable trainings designed to meet any organization's unique culture and educational needs.
$237,431 spent$23,598 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,837,009.
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 $1.9M to $2.6M (+36%).
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 75% · 2018 73% · 2019 70% · 2020 72% · 2021 78% · 2022 72% · 2023 77% · 2024 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC’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. 2 of the last 8 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
Paul Levy
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $105k → $221k.
7 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
61% 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 VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 50% · 2019 32% · 2020 28% · 2021 44% · 2022 22% · 2023 28% — 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
68% of VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
85% of VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $785k 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
VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 22 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $500k on record.
- Department of Justice$500k
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 VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 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 VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC?
- VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC (Ohio) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,754,984 to it, the largest being AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($622,442). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $1,754,984 in grants to VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC?
- AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $622,442 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 42 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