Araminta Freedom Initiative
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454477884
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- Baltimore, MD, USA
- Phone
- 4439340003
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Victims' Services
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,439,270
- Expenses
- $1,443,600
- Assets
- $2,839,563
- Liabilities
- $800,901
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BILLY HUMPHREY (President)
Highest reported compensation
- RHONDA SANCO (Executive Dir.): $125,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Araminta freedom initiative reduces the threat of child trafficking - the buying and selling of minors for the purpose of sexual exploitation - and restores the mind, body and spirit of those who have survived the trauma of modern enslavement. We develop and implement educational initiatives and local prevention plans with churches, schools and communities, while providing individualized, restorative services to victims of child trafficking using trauma-informed, evidence-based models. We take both our name and inspiration from harriet tubman, the american abolitionist and political activist whose birth name was araminta. Born enslaved in Maryland, tubman not only led scores of family members and other slaves to freedom as a conductor of the underground railroad, she helped them gain education and find work in order to build new and better lives for themselves.
What it reported doing in 2024
Survivor services - araminta freedom initiative serves the state of Maryland by providing anti-human trafficking and post-trafficking resources to those commercially exploited as a child. Araminta currently accepts girls and those identifying as female between the ages of 12 - 25. Services for survivors combine care coordination, ensuring youth have access to housing, education and services needed to build a new life as well as sustained relationships rooted in a mentorship program, designed in alignment with evidence-based national mentorship models. Araminta also provides survivors with advocacy and provisional services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.7%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 83%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.29 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: -0.3%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.97; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.28; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.7%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.7% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.9% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.7% of revenue deployed · 83% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $125K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 41/100.