Its Going to Be Ok Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 465139883
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2017, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Dallas, TX, USA
- Phone
- 4698592180
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Nutrition
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $902,220
- Expenses
- $719,220
- Assets
- $246,542
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DR TONYA STAFFORD (CEO)
- ANTHONY MILLER (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DR TONYA STAFFORD (CEO): $88,534 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to work toward the eradication of human trafficking, particularly the sexual exploitation of women and children. It's Going To Be OK rescues and restores survivors by providing trauma-informed direct care services, including safe housing, counseling, and basic necessities to support healing and long-term recovery.
What it reported doing in 2025
It's Going To Be OK, Inc. is a trauma-informed, survivor-centered organization dedicated to ending human trafficking, especially the sexual exploitation of women and children. The organization helps rescue and restore survivors by providing safe housing, counseling, and other trauma-informed support services that promote healing and stability. The organization assists women and their children who have experienced sexual exploitation by helping meet their everyday needs, including housing, utilities, food, transportation, childcare, education, medical and dental care, clothing, and other necessities. In addition, the organization provides educational awareness programs, wellness services, workforce development, and economic empowerment opportunities to help survivors and community members rebuild their lives with dignity and independence. Programs are designed to provide accountability, compassion, and wrap-around support tailored to each individual's circumstances. Each year, the organization serves approximately 800 women, children, and families through direct services and support programs. Community outreach efforts also support unsheltered and unhoused individuals and families. During Thanksgiving outreach initiatives, the organization serves approximately 250 individuals and reaches an estimated 7,500 people annually through outreach activities. Services include distributing food, clothing, hygiene kits, essential supplies, and toys for children experiencing homelessness or housing insecurity.
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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.2%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 91.9%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $67.58 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 18th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.3%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.34; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.3%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 26.5% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 22.6% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 28.9% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.2% of revenue deployed · 91.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $661K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $89K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 40 of 41 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.