The Freedom Cafe
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 474074649
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Durham, NH, USA
- Phone
- 6038154916
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $213,567
- Expenses
- $221,354
- Assets
- $17,384
- Liabilities
- $27,123
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jenna Roberts (President)
- Bryan Bessette (Executive Director)
- Sean Matthews (Vice President)
- Sean Matthews (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Bryan Bessette (Executive Director): $50,525 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 Freedom Cafe is a non-profit specialty caf? dedicated to ending human trafficking and the commercial exploitation of all people. The caf? provides a collaborative space that invites the local community to take ownership and action toward a slave-free world. We seek to educate about root causes, actions necessary for preventing, to create a world where all people are free.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provide 12 Industry specific prevention education programs, training 584 front line workers and organizational leaders with knowledge to establish strong policies, recognize red flags. and how to respond to potential trafficking situations. Facilitate Local Engagement, Conscious Consuming and Investment in an Exploitation-Free World including serving over 6000 visitors in The Cafe and hosting 63 advocacy events. Support Students as They Prepare for a Lifetime of Leadership and Advocacy including training 23 Volunteers and 2 University Student Fellows.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 73% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 79.1%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.6%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.08; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.56; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22.8%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 15.3% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 42.4% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82% of revenue deployed · 79.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $175K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $51K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.