DeliverFund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471955601
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Whitefish, MT, USA
- Phone
- 8449193863
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,302,551
- Expenses
- $2,132,386
- Assets
- $692,950
- Liabilities
- $103,220
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Nicholas Mckinley (CEO/Board Chair)
- Sean Fennema (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Christi C Nabors (Fundraising Dir): $127,182 total reported compensation
- Nicholas Mckinley (CEO/Board Chair): $109,426 total reported compensation
- Shane M Erickson (Chief of Operation): $105,830 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
DeliverFund disrupts global human trafficking markets by combining uniquely qualified personnel with the best technologies and then leveraging them in new ways to reach and rescue victims of human trafficking.
What it reported doing in 2025
DeliverFund is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to disrupting global human trafficking markets by combining uniquely qualified intelligence professionals with the best available technologies. For more than a decade, we have provided law enforcement with reliable, actionable intelligence; trained officers and prosecutors; and provided direct operational support to reach and rescue victims of human trafficking.In 2025, donor support built the largest analyst-curated human trafficking dataset in the world, exceeding 6 billion data points, and placed it directly in the hands of more than 8,000 law enforcement officers across 1,200 agencies nationwide..Five-Year Verified Impact (20212025)314 traffickers arrested and networks dismantled1,132 sex buyers arrested435 minor victims rescued821 adult victims rescued1,592 law enforcement officers and prosecutors trained2,726 third-party integrations delivered3,751 intelligence reports producedCase outcomes are often confidential and rescues are routinely undercounted, the real figures are meaningfully higher than those verified above.Technology and Data: Tech that ProtectsIn 2025, DeliverFund's proprietary technology stack, powered by Hoonify's TurbOS operating system and our in-house supercomputing infrastructure, collected data approximately five times faster than prior years and enabled 24/7 high-performance operations. Daily throughput delivered 1,270 data points to law enforcement every minute, scanned 141,456 images for signs of trafficking, mapped 30,326 new phone numbers, cataloged 8,271 new email addresses, processed 3,541 videos, and added 31,299 record versions with full version control. By year-end 2025, the database held 6,056,607,725 total data points, 23,672,132 unique images, 6,885,179 unique phone numbers, 1,296,973 unique videos, and 422,670 unique emails, with each category growing by an average of 15.2% over the prior year. TrainingDeliverFund equips law enforcement and prosecutors with the knowledge and tools to be more effective in the field. Our training program is the industry standard, complemented by virtual, on-demand courses.In the last five years, we have trained 1,592 officers and prosecutors. The curriculum covers DeliverFund's database and search tools, trafficking indicators in digital data, building prosecutable cases from open-source intelligence, and multi-jurisdictional investigations.During a Pittsburgh training course, 26 officers split into three working groups independently identified the same illicit advertisement as a trafficking indicator. When the subject was entered into DeliverFunds investigative platform, she was already in the database, connected to a 2022 California sex trafficking case and now surfacing in Pennsylvania. A classroom exercise became a live lead and a reopened active case in real time.John Wall Memorial Embedded Analyst ProgramThe John Wall Memorial Embedded Analyst Program, named for the late Houston Police Sergeant who pioneered the embedded-analyst model with DeliverFund in 2019, continued to coordinate trafficking cases across state and county lines in 2025, ensuring traffickers can no longer hide behind jurisdictional boundaries. Officers nationwide also have free direct database access powered by donor-funded technology.2025 Analyst Output691 intelligence reports delivered to law enforcement (+34% year-over-year)20 formal Requests for Information fulfilled20 active operations supported with real-time, on-the-ground analyst assistanceLandmark Case WorkOperation Reclaim and Rebuild, San Luis Obispo County, CaliforniaAt the invitation of the San Luis Obispo County District Attorney's Office, DeliverFund supported this annual statewide operation in which more than 80 California law enforcement agencies joined forces for a week-long crackdown on trafficking networks. DeliverFund analysts converted online ads, phone records, emails, and open-source intelligence into operational leads before and during the crackdown.Statewide O
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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.7%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 75.3%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.35 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 21; 21st 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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- 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: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.4%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 25.6%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.7% of revenue deployed · 75.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $127K · 9 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $178K reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.