Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking

What it reported doing in 2024

Empowerment programs: social services: cast's comprehensive and intensive case management program offers a client-centered, trauma-informed approach to helping survivors along their journey to healing and independence. The program begins with a comprehensive assessment to determine goals and necessary next steps. Services include basic necessities and food, safety planning, supportive counseling, medical, education, life skills training, employment, transportation, applying for state/federal benefits and more.cast's 24-hour hotline provides a real-time, in-person response to victims escaping human trafficking. Our emergency response teams support victims by supplying them with food and emergency items, and immediately coordinate shelter and safety plans.housing: cast's housing programs provide a continuum of physically and psychologically safe housing for trafficking survivors. Cast's emergency and transitional shelter programs provide a host of supportive programs and services that are designed to help clients establish independence and self-sufficiency, to build community and to expand their own supportive networks. Cast also provides a rapid-re-housing program for survivors which includes rental assistance and moving costs, and dedicated staff to ensure survivors access and maintain safe, permanent housing. This is a significant step forward as survivors tell us that permanent housing is the number one barrier to rebuilding their lives.youth program: cast recognizes the specialized needs of minor and transition age youth (tay) survivors of human trafficking and developed specific youth-focused programming. Youth services include monthly group activities focused on empowerment, positive experiences and education; comprehensive case management with interventions geared towards youth; and individual assistance navigating various systems, including the los angeles county department of children and family services and probation department, when necessary. In addition, the program offers a youth leadership program for tay which seek to build job skills and professional development through direct work experience and mentorship.survivor leadership: cast's work is directly informed by the real experiences of the clients it serves and survivors from around the united states. The survivor leadership programs, resilient voices (launched in 2003) and national survivor network (launched in 2011), bring together a community of survivors of human trafficking for peer-to-peer mentorship and survivor-led advocacy. Their voices on policy and public awareness have led to the development of stronger protections for victims in both California and federal anti-trafficking laws. By connecting survivors across the country, cast supports and empowers survivors to strengthen their own leadership qualities and values their insight, not just as survivors, but as experts in the field.partnerships & outreach: cast is committed to strengthening its partnerships with leading anti-trafficking organizations and coalitions around the country, as well as forging new relationships with local service providers to meet the increase in demand for social and legal services in los angeles county and provides trainings to service providers on human trafficking and trauma-informed practices.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 72.6%; rating input score 73
• Program expense ratio: 86%; rating input score 86
• Fundraising efficiency: $16.89 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 98.7%; rating input score 99; 30th percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 24th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 15.6%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.11; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.45; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 6.7%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings