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2016ANNUALREPORT

FREEDOM IS A GIFTA TRIBUTE TO THE DONORS WHO HELP US REACH NEW HEIGHTS AND TRANSFORM MORE LIVES

DID YOU KNOW?

In 2016, five women in Lake County, Illinois, lost their lives in domestic violence-related homicides, a rate as high as the worst neighborhood in Chicago.

Together, we can do more to save lives and stop the cycle of violence.

• Evolved the annual golf outing by moving to an upgraded golf course that attracted new donors and provided a first-class experience designed to retain golfers year over year.

• Collaborated with the State’s Attorney’s office to develop a human trafficking task force for Lake County.

• Invested in development to build the agency’s overall fundraising capacity and lessen our reliance on government funds.

• Remodeled a training room at our Zion campus, where clients can meet on a monthly basis, and where community volunteers can receive their 40-hour domestic violence training.

• Expanded services in the southern part of the county to meet the needs of victims in communities where our physical presence is limited, like Lake Forest, Lake Zurich, Gurnee and Highland Park.

• Strengthened our IT infrastructure in ways that increase staff productivity and increase safety of our clients’ records.

• Piloted “Giving Tuesday” to engage donors in new ways.

• Created a teen room in Zion, providing a safe space for teens to meet, do homework and hang out.

• Secure funding and remodel emergency shelter in stages, providing a living environment for survivors and children that is warm, welcoming, nurturing, beautiful, comfortable and conducive to the needs of families. The shelter has not been touched in 20+ years as we’ve endured budget restraints and focused almost exclusively on lifesaving services.

• Grow our base of volunteers and in-kind donations so programs and facility maintenance don’t go unmet due to the limited financial resources experienced from lack of funding.

• Fund and develop an employment program, whereby new staff will help survivors by connecting them to education and employment opportunities, and leading them to self-sufficiency.

• Create more long-term sustainability by pursuing Medicaid certification and opening a new stream of revenue. A Safe Place delivers thousands of billable hours of behavioral health services for which we don’t receive any reimbursement from Medicaid or third-party insurance.

• Develop meaningful opportunities to engage women and increase philanthropy from female donors through events like Wine Women & Shoes.

2016 ACCOMPLISHMENTS

2017 GOALS

DID YOU KNOW?

In 2016, five women in Lake County, Illinois, lost their lives in domestic violence-related homicides, a rate as high as the worst neighborhood in Chicago.

Together, we can do more to save lives and stop the cycle of violence.

A YEAR OF FREEDOM AND TRANSFORMATIONIn 2016, we gave the gift of freedom to thousands. We helped 14,533 people when they needed us most. We answered 2,464 calls to our crisis line. We opened our doors when 227 victims of domestic violence needed emergency shelter. We guided 3,306 courageous survivors through the court-room experience of requesting an order of protection. We were there when 210 children needed a safe, supervised way to visit their parents. And we helped to prevent violence by providing education to 5,836 people in the community.

Freedom is a gift. And it is a gift we could not so freely give without the ongoing and generous support of donors like you. Without you, the calls would go unanswered. The shelter doors would close. The victims in court rooms would face the system — and even their abusers — without someone to hold their hands. The abusers themselves would never get the interventions they need to stop the cycle of violence. And the children who have witnessed and endured the trauma of domestic violence would be lost to a world that expects them to simply carry on as if their lives have not been shattered.

When you make a gift to A Safe Place, you may be surprised to find that your gift buys far more than you ever imagined. More self-sufficiency. More lasting safety. More honest-to-goodness, heartfelt charity than the average charity can deliver.

When compared to other nonprofits of similar budgetary size, A Safe Place is truly quite remarkable. We provide more breadth and depth of services and facilities than other domestic violence organizations, and we do a better job than almost anyone in the nation when it comes to removing the barriers between victims and lasting safety. In the United States, on average, a domestic violence victim will return to their abuser 7-8 times before either making it to lasting safety or dying. Yet, at A Safe Place, 94 percent of the survivors who leave our shelter have not gone back to their abusers as of their six-month check-in with us. Freedom is a gift that keeps on giving.

When you make a gift to A Safe Place, it is invested wisely. We use in-kind donations and volunteer support in unparalleled fashion so that dollars go further. And our overhead costs are only 12 percent — significantly lower than the cost of running most social services agencies.

At A Safe Place, we pay tribute to the donors who make our life-changing and life-saving work possible. When you support us, you’re impacting human life in profound ways. And when you become part of the community of donors who are working to eradicate domestic violence, you are met with transparency about our programming, our management and our financials. You deserve nothing less.

Thank you for all you have done to support domestic violence survivors and their children. We are humbled and grateful, and we ask that you please continue your generous support. Together, we will accomplish much in the coming year — we’ll give the gift of freedom to thousands more people right here in Lake County. We’ll give them the safety, dignity and opportunity they deserve.

With appreciation for all that you do,

Kate Johnson Board President

Pat Davenport Executive Director

TRANSFORMING LIVESONE STEP AT A TIME

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SURVIVORS AND THEIR CHILDREN

CRISIS & SAFETY• Crisis Line• Emergency Shelter• Emergency Orders of Protection• Crisis Counseling for

Children & Survivors

INTERVENTION• Abuser Services• Victim Advocacy

POST-SEPARATION• Supervised Visits• Plenary Orders of Protection• Family Therapy• Safe Custody Exchanges• Group Counseling• Individual Therapy• Supportive Services

HEALING & BUILDING• Transitional Housing• Permanent Housing• Family Therapy• Individual Therapy • Group Counseling• Life Skills• Art Therapy• Supportive Services

PREVENTION• School Education• Professional Training• Mentoring• Community Programs

YOUR SUPPORT ENSURES WE CAN CONTINUE TO CARE FOR OUR SURVIVORS EVERY STEP OF THE WAYFISCAL YEAR 2016 AT A GLANCE

24-HOUR CRISIS LINE

2,464 Callers

LEGAL ADVOCACY

3,306 Orders of Protection (10% increase over 2015)

LIVES TRANSFORMED

14,533 People Served and Impacted by Our Mission

EMERGENCY SHELTER

227 Victims Sheltered

7,501 Shelter Nights

HOUSING ASSISTANCE

45,212 Nights of Safe Housing (9% increase over 2015)

SUPERVISED FAMILY VISITATIONS

210 Children Had Safe Family Visits

1,824 Custody Exchanges

971 Family Visitations COUNSELING

686 Adults Received Life-Changing Counseling

226 Children Received Therapeutic Healing

PREVENTION & EDUCATION

5,604 People Attended Domestic Violence Presentations

232 Teens Received Education on Healthy Relationships

A staggering 117,500 women and 50,000 men in Lake County alone will be victims at some point in their lives, and as many as

60,700 children in Lake County will witness domestic abuse.

A SAFE PLACE’S MISSION & VISIONAs the leading advocate for eliminating domestic violence in northern Illinois, A Safe Place provides emergency shelter, affordable housing, advocacy, and individual and group supportive services to survivors of domestic violence and their children; and intervention services for abusers to learn accountability for their choices and actions. A Safe Place also presents educational programs to professionals to build awareness of domestic violence, to students in classrooms and to the community at large. It is our goal that by helping others learn more about domestic violence, its causes, and appropriate responses, we can encourage a comprehensive response to the domestic violence in our midst, breaking the cycle of violence and creating safe and healthy communities.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF 2016 ACTIVITIESREVENUE EXPENSES

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

PREVENTION & TREATMENT

PROGRAMS

1 in 3 women

1 in 7 men

in the United States have been victims of severe physical violence by an

intimate partner in their lifetimes.

Other Income

Supportive Housing Rent & Other Program FeesPrivate Grants,

Fundraising Events

Contributions Governmental Funding

47%

27%

19% 6%1%

FundraisingManagement & General Expenses

78%

12% 10%

Abuser Services

Outreach & Education

Legal Advocacy

Family Visitation Center

Counseling & Life Skills

Supportive Housing

Shelter & Crisis Advocacy

9% 8%

35%

18%

13%

13%4%

SUPPORT & REVENUEGovernmental Funding $1,110,732Contributions 653,389Private Grants, Fundraising Events 462,299Supportive Housing Rent & Other Program Fees 135,332Other Income 16,377Total Support and Revenue $2,378,129

EXPENSESShelter & Crisis Advocacy $583,115Supportive Housing 312,597Counseling & Life Skills 222,341Family Visitation Center 212,572Legal Advocacy 134,118Outreach & Education 147,486Abuser Services 66,529Total Domestic Violence Prevention and Treatment Programs

$1,678,828

Management and General Expenses $247,805Fundraising 213,117Total Management, General Expenses and Fundraising

$460,922

Total Expenses1 $2,139,750

FINANCIAL SUMMARY (FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2016)

ASSETS, LIABILITY & NET ASSET SUMMARY

Cash and Short-Term Investments $266,153Grants and Contributions Receivable 343,107Prepaid Expenses and Other Current Assets 32,635Restricted Deposits, Reserves, Deferred Financing Costs and Investments

707,946

Land, Building, Furniture and Equipment (net of depreciation)

9,297,856

Total Assets $10,647,697

EXPENSES

Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses $262,408Notes and Mortgages Payable 3,328,318Total Liabilities $3,590,726

Net Assets, Unrestricted $3,547,265Net Assets, Temporarily Restricted 234,523Noncontrolling Interests in A Safe Place LLP 3,275,183Total Liabilities and Net Assets $10,647,6972

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION

1Expenses include $198,564 (2016) of non-cash depreciation. 2Note: The above financial summary is derived from the 2016 consolidated financial statements that have been audited and have received an unqualified opinion, the highest mark an organization can receive. For complete, audited, consolidated financial statements, please contact our administrative offices at 847-731-7165.

$50,000+Armin & Esther Hirsch FoundationBaxter International FoundationChicago BearsCity of WaukeganHermitage Family FoundationRussell V. Ray and Mary Rose Ray

Charitable Trust

$25,000 - $49,999Alphawood FoundationTrustmark FoundationUnited Way of Lake CountyBonnie and Gene MinskyHealthcare Foundation of

Northern Lake County

$10,000 - $24,999AbbVie FoundationAutohaus on Edens, Inc.Blowitz-Ridgeway FoundationChicago Foundation for WomenFirst Presbyterian Church of Lake ForestForest & Found LTDGrant Healthcare FoundationJudy Family FoundationLake County Community DevelopmentMary Kay Ash Charitable FoundationMark and Maureen MillerFrank MohrMichael and Andrea RosengardenThomas Toser

$5,000 - $9,999Abbott LaboratoriesDavid & Patty AnderskowBuchanan Family FundCaring Women’s ConnectionColdwell Banker Charitable FoundationCounty of Lake, IllinoisDiscover Financial ServiceHopeLine from VerizonLake County Community FoundationLee Family FoundationMs. Molly FoundationNorthbrook ToyotaNorthwestern Memorial HealthCare

Paragon Asset RecoveryPatrick and Anna M. Cudahy FundReichert FoundationErnie and Dawn RogersStoddard Silencers, Inc.The William R. Johnson Family FoundationUnited Conveyor FoundationVillage of Vernon HillsTom and Marie WascoeZurich American Insurance Co.+ five anonymous donors

$1,000 - $4,999Robert AckleyBill AnestAntioch Woman’s ClubAon Risk SolutionsJulio ArguetaAT&T IllinoisFrancine AtkinsStuart and Nancy BabendirBaird & Warner Good Will NetworkRick BaruchBears CareBell & AndersonBarry and Lisa BialeckiGary BirnbaumClayton and Janine BolkeJennifer Diehl and Robert BoyleBrinshore Development, LLCDavid Brown Brown & Joseph, LTDMelinda and Andrew BushCalpine CorporationJill Carey HargraveCheryl A. & John M. O’Meara

Charitable Foundation, Inc.City of Highland ParkPaula Clayton LenczyckiKate and Robert ColbertColleen & Brad CramletCrowe Horwath LLPKathleen CurtinDavid & Lisette Eisendrath FoundationErin DavisAnnick DeublerPaul DihelExchange Club of Gurnee

Fidelity Charitable Gift FundCatherine FingerFirst Bank of Highland Park FoundationFirst Midwest BankFirst Presbyterian Church of LibertyvilleMarykay Foy and Tim VezeauDebra GammonGlenview Women of TodayHarold M. and Adeline S. Morrison

Family FoundationHighland Park Presbyterian ChurchNancy and Marvin HimmelsteinJohnathan HughesIota Lambda Iota AlumnaeJack Miller Family FoundationJBS FoundationKate and Adam JohnsonKaren R. & John T. Crotty FoundationKeystone Aniline CorporationKim and Maureen KlattCarol KnopLake County Federation of TeachersLake Forest Knights of Columbus

Council #1268Peter LaskowskiLeavitt Siegal LLCNancy and Ron LiaceLibertyville Bank & TrustLibertyville RotaryMesirow FinancialBrenda and Gregory MeyerKathryn and Thomas MiceliMichael & Kristen MinskyMissionary Sisters Servants of the Holy SpiritMOD Super Fast Pizza, LLCMoraine TownshipNami of Kenosha CountyCraig NielsenNiles TownshipNorth Shore Chapter

Women’s Council of RealtorsNorth Shore Unitarian ChurchNorthbrook Woman’s Club FoundationSusan Noyes Joby and Wendy OrlowskyPackaging Corporation of AmericaPeter and Thalia Anest Family FoundationLaura and Andy Pikel

Power Construction Company, LLCJeff and Diane PowersKieron and Steve QuaneThomas and Diane Quinn R & R CrossingJude and Kathy RakeTrude RoselleRust-Oleum CorporationSteven Scott and Cheryl RohlwingEric Smartt and Mecca Maxey-SmarttSpecial Delivery MOMs (Mothers of Multiples)Michael and Cari StraussKaren Szymanski & John StoneThe Allstate FoundationThe Bishop Family FundThe Cable CompanyThe Mustard SeedThe William and Wilma Paterson

Charitable Gift FundIldiko TodorovicToyota Dealer Match ProgramToyota Financial ServicesKenneth & Cindy TrammellVernon TownshipVisual PakWauconda TownshipJennifer WendrowIngrid Wiemer & Charle WilkinsonWomen’s Independence

Scholarship Program, Inc.Anna Jean WorochYoung Professional Board of A Safe PlaceYoung Women’s Christian Association

of Lake Forest/Lake BluffCraig ZeboldRoss and Anna Zimmerman+ seven anonynmous donors

2016 MAJOR DONORS

For a complete list of donors, visit www.ASafePlaceForHelp.org. A Safe Place • 2710 17th Street, Zion, IL 60099 • 847-731-7165

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