Beauty for Freedom Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
472201685
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2015–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
New York, NY, USA
Phone
2129671100
Rating
89
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Civil Rights, Social Action, Advocacy N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$15,865
Expenses
$21,079
Assets
$6,310
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MONICA WATKINS (PRESIDENT)
  • JERRY CHU (VICE PRESIDENT & TREASURER)

People named in this filing

  • MONICA WATKINS (PRESIDENT)
  • JERRY CHU (VICE PRESIDENT & TREASURER)
  • SUWANA PERRY (SECRETARY)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Beauty for freedom is an innovative, sustainable platform providing the industries of beauty, entertainment and fashion with a means to raise awareness, accountability, and financial contributions for charitable foundations and non-profits who fight human trafficking globally through public campaigns, workshops, and fundraising events.

What it reported doing in 2024

Project mexico is a beauty for freedom travel abroad arts and music therapy workshop series for survivors of sex trafficking in mexico city and puebla mexico in collaboration with a local anti-trafficking organization anthus. Activities and programs created for survivors include mural art workshops, music composition workshops, multi-media art workshops, yoga workshops, meditation workshops, and traditional talk therapy.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 94
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 29
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 84.8%; rating input score 85

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -32.9%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -16.1% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -16.5% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 17% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 84.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $18K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2015 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.