Beyond Borders Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

Model community initiative (mci): in 2025, the model community initiative (mci) strengthened community-led child-protection systems, expanded survivor leadership, and improved access to essential services across lagonav and partner communities. Through community-based psychosocial-case-management, mci intervened in the cases of 9 children facing violence, neglect, or risk of entering restavk, providing tailored support such as medical care, psychosocial counseling, economic assistance, and family reintegration follow-up. Survivor-led community sensitization efforts reached 968 residents through mock trials, open-space assemblies, door-to-door interventions, and church-based outreach, increasing knowledge of children's rights and improving community capacity to prevent abuse and exploitation. A major milestone of the year was the establishment of 10 mental wellness groups serving 148 adult survivors of restavk. Trained survivor-facilitators led weekly sessions to support trauma management, emotional healing, and improved wellbeing. Baseline assessments guided the creation of two therapeutic groups for survivors needing more intensive support, each led by a psychosocial officer. To ensure the sustainability of community protection mechanisms, mci strengthened 7 child protection coordination committees and 8 srn coordination committees. These structures participated in organizational diagnostics, capacity-strengthening plans, and targeted training on financial management, narrative reporting, procurement, and digital literacy. Participants demonstrated significant gains in knowledge, with ict trainees increasing test scores by an average of 44.7 points. Mci expanded its technical accompaniment to partner organizations in artibonite-supporting rjm and the gwomn child protection committee with guidance on case management, advocacy, trs group facilitation, and community mobilization. These efforts enabled the operation of 32 trs dialogue groups, improved access to education for children whose families could not pay school fees, supported birth registration for 15 unregistered children, and strengthened partnerships with hospitals, schools, and government institutions. The family graduation program (fgp) achieved a major success as all 160 families in cohort 6 completed the program in july 2025. Graduates received new or rehabilitated homes equipped with working toilets and rainwater catchment systems and tanks, along with livestock and livelihood assets, savings support, and training to manage water systems and income-generating activities. Families reported major improvements in food security, dignity, and household stability. Overall, mci strengthened community resilience, enhanced survivor leadership, expanded mental health support, and delivered critical protection services to advance the movement to end child domestic servitude.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 83.2%; rating input score 83
• Program expense ratio: 83.1%; rating input score 83
• Fundraising efficiency: $10.55 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 39; 39th 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: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
  • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
  • Requires narrative reports: Fail
  • Conducts field audits: Fail
  • May suspend future funding: Fail
  • Requires financial reports: Pass
  • Conducts site visits: Pass
  • Requires grant agreements: Fail
  • May require repayment: Fail
• Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

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: 1.8%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.5; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 10.1%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings