Real Escape from the Sex Trade
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453531020
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2011
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- 4253954691
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Sexual Abuse, Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,604,246
- Expenses
- $3,760,311
- Assets
- $1,308,807
- Liabilities
- $534,145
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MEGHANN MCCANN (INTERIM CEO (UNTIL 6/30/24))
- LINAYA BUNBURY (INTERIM CEO (FROM 6/24/24 - 10/11/24))
- ELIZABETH HODGES (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- SOPHIA DUUS (FINANCE DIRECTOR): $127,777 total reported compensation
- AUDREY BAEDKE (DIRECTOR OF TRAINING AND PARTNERSHIPS): $115,205 total reported compensation
- YASMINDA DORROUGH (DIRECTOR OF SURVIVOR SERVICES): $114,237 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We exist to provide pathways to freedom, safety, and hope for victims of sex trafficking and people involved in the sex trade.
What it reported doing in 2024
Rest's community services program provides trauma-informed, person-centered case management and housing support for youth, adults, and senior survivors of the sex trade. Advocates help clients access resources and achieve individualized goals, while housing services supports clients with housing applications, move-in costs, rental assistance, landlord debt, and eviction prevention. In fy 2025, advocates assisted 120 clients in achieving 285 goals, and housing services supported 89 clients with obtaining and maintaining stable housing.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 71% 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 - 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: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.6%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 72.4%; rating input score 72
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.4 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 24th 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; 63rd 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: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.3%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.35; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.41; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.8%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17.2% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75.6% of revenue deployed · 72.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $128K · 13 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $188K reported
- Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.