Soteria Innovative Solutions
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473066373
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2016, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Centennial, CO, USA
- Phone
- 8889778001
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,496,359
- Expenses
- $1,542,957
- Assets
- $144,899
- Liabilities
- $21,049
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALLISON MADRIGAL (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ALLISON MADRIGAL (PRESIDENT): $127,560 total reported compensation
- ADRIAN OLSEN (CHIEF OPER O): $94,123 total reported compensation
- MICHELLE FRANK (CHIEF PROG O): $91,027 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The purpose of rescue america is to combat human sex trafficking. Rescue america exists to rescue, revive, and empower the sexually exploited through a 24/7 hotline and emergency response.
What it reported doing in 2024
Rescue america (ra) provides direct outreach to victims of sex trafficking, facilitating safe exit and response services to support immediate survival needs as well as continued mental, emotional and spiritual needs, preparing them for long term placement in partner homes across the u.s. Ras outreach hub program expanded dramatically in 2024 to 70 hubs nationwide. Volunteers placed 65,796 outbound calls offering a message of hope while distributing the hotline number. The 24/7 hotline provides victims with immediate response and rescue services. In 2024, they received 2,429 calls, with 1,491 calls being from victims of sex trafficking or sexual exploitation, and 199 exiting the life. The total number of hotline calls increased almost 24% from 2023, with calls coming in from 549 cities across america.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 74% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 80% for direct work, and 20% for grants.
- 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 58
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 77.6%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.28 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 93.5%; rating input score 93; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 60%; rating input score 60; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.1%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22.2%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.9% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.3% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80% of revenue deployed · 77.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $128K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 7 filed related-organization links
- 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: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.