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CHARITY REVIEW
Issued: June 2025 Expires: June 2027

Cocoon Shelter

Accredited Charity
Accredited Charity

Meets Standards
(419) 373-1730
Post Office Box 1165
Bowling Green, OH, 43402
http://thecocoon.org/
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Standards For Charity Accountability

Governance

  1. Board Oversight
  2. Board Size
  3. Board Meetings
  4. Board Compensation
  5. Conflict of Interest

Measuring Effectiveness

  1. Effectiveness Policy
  2. Effectiveness Report

Finances

  1. Program Expenses
  2. Fundraising Expenses
  3. Accumulating Funds
  4. Audit Report
  5. Detailed Expense Breakdown
  6. Accurate Expense Reporting
  7. Budget Plan

Fundraising & Info

  1. Truthful Materials
  2. Annual Report
  3. Website Disclosures
  4. Donor Privacy
  5. Cause Marketing Disclosures
  6. Complaints

Cocoon Shelter meets the 20 Standards for Charity Accountability.

Stated Purpose:
"to provide safety, healing, and justice across the lifespan for survivors of domestic and sexual violence, their children, and all of those affected by abuse."

Year, State Incorporated:
2004, OH

Cocoon Shelter (Cocoon) reports it is a comprehensive domestic and sexual violence agency in Wood County, Ohio. The organization serves individual survivors of rape, sex trafficking, harassment, and stalking, as well as adult survivors of childhood sexual assault. Cocoon states that it provides to survivors, their children, and family pets at no cost. The organization supports a 24-bed emergency safe shelter and provides temporary housing to single women, single men, survivors with children, and family pets who come into the shelter with their families. Cocoon offers community-based advocacy services to survivors who do not need emergency safe shelter. The organization also offers prevention and education programs to area businesses, schools, and other organizations to educate the community at large about domestic and sexual violence.

For the year ended December 31, 2023, Cocoon Shelter's program expenses were:

Program services $1,658,774
Total Program Expenses $1,658,774

Chief Executive
Kathy Mull, Executive Director

Compensation*
$75,560

Chair of the Board
Kacee Ferrell Snyder

Chair's Profession / Business Affiliation
Director, Center for Women and Gender Equity, Bowling Green State University

Board Size
12

Paid Staff Size
22

*2022 compensation includes annual salary and, if applicable, benefit plans, expense accounts, and other allowances.

Method(s) Used:
Direct mail appeals, Grant proposals, Internet, Direct mail appeals, Radio, Special events

Fundraising costs were 7% of related contributions. (Related contributions, which totaled $2,271,249, are donations received as a result of fundraising activities.)

This organization is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is eligible to receive contributions deductible as charitable donations for federal income tax purposes.

The following information is based on Cocoon Shelter's audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2023.

Source of Funds
Employee retention credit $38,951
Special events $154,186
In-kind contributions $159,230
Investment income, net $195,276
Contributions $312,371
Grants $1,606,511
Total Income $2,466,525

Programs: 87% Fundraising: 8% Administrative: 5%

Total Income $2,466,525
Total expenses: $1,910,606
  Program expenses $1,658,774
  Fundraising expenses $160,612
  Administrative expenses $91,220
  Other expenses $0
Income in Excess of Expenses $555,919
Beginning Net Assets $3,727,885
Other Changes In Net Assets $778,852
Ending Net Assets $5,062,656
Total Liabilities $1,343,877
Total Assets $6,406,533

Note: According to the organizations audited financial statements - consolidated - for the year ended December 31, 2023, Cocoon received in-kind contributions totaling $159,230 in the form of service recipient services ($123,936), other supplies ($28,844), and rent ($6,450).

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Report completed by:
BBB Wise Giving Alliance