Traffick911
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271111529
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2011
- Location
- Addison, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8175759923
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Sexual Abuse, Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,222,383
- Expenses
- $3,368,556
- Assets
- $1,116,677
- Liabilities
- $470,104
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lindsey Speed (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Lindsey Speed (CEO): $126,077 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Founded in 2009, Traffick911 exists to free youth from sex trafficking through trust-based relationships. We believe that sex trafficking is a symptom of a deeply-rooted issue: relational brokenness. Our extensive experience with countless victims has revealed that relational wounds, often many, play a significant role in causing or contributing to trafficking victimization. It is through building and nurturing healthy relational bonds that victims can heal and progress from being a victim to becoming a survivor. (Continued on Schedule O).
What it reported doing in 2024
Traffick911s Voice & Choice Program serves child sex trafficking survivors through 24/7 crisis response, relational support, and intensive case management in collaboration with county multidisciplinary teams across Dallas, Tarrant, Denton, Collin, Ellis, and Rockwall counties. In 2024, the Crisis Response Team responded to 115 crisis recoveries in partnership with law enforcement, where full-time Advocates physically arrived within 60 minutes. Voice & Choice Advocates provided 4,145 direct services to 352 youth and their families, including hotline counseling, emergency financial assistance, transportation, housing support, medical advocacy, legal aid, and court accompaniment. Together, survivors and advocates set 1,029 personalized empowerment goals, with 76 percent successfully achieved, reflecting meaningful progress toward self-determined healing and stability.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 61% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 - 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: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 96
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.9%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 82.2%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.84 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 25th 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: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.5%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.33; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.42; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.7%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.3% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.2% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.9% of revenue deployed · 82.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $126K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 32 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Fund balance restriction sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D other liabilities reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.