Speak Safe
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 871704074
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- San Rafael, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4156081350
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Child Abuse, Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $23,790
- Expenses
- $17,678
- Assets
- $124,522
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Paula Kamena (President)
- Michael Pritchard (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Marlene Capra (Executive Dir.)
- Paula Kamena (President)
- Michael Pritchard (Vice President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Speak Safe Save Adolescents From Exploitation is an educational program and platform to actively train elementary, middle and high school staff and ultimately students to recognize the signs of youth exploitation, to ideally prevent exploitation in the first place, and, on how to best support youth on a day-to-day basis. Our mission is to protect and empower youth by preventing exploitation in all its forms. Through education, advocacy, and collaboration, we work to create safe environments where young people can thrive and their rights are upheld.
What it reported doing in 2025
Education to elementary, middle, high school students to gain knowledge on the signs, behaviors, and resources of exploitation, as well as providing support and empowerment to youth to get assistance for themselves and their peers. Education and training to elementary, middle, and high school staff, wellness staff and coaches, athletic departments to understand what human trafficking/exploitation is/ how to identify it/how to respond in a trauma informed way. Education and training for law enforcement, first responders, hospitals and medical departments, and service providers. Support to educators in rolling out the education provided for students. Education to our community and parent body with speakers, resources, and follow up. Creating surveys, support networks, in an effort to increase access to services through our local service providers. Student Paid Internship Program for high school and college students.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.9%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 90%; rating input score 90
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25.7%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.04; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -11.6% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 28.9% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 66.9% of revenue deployed · 90% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $16K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.