United Against Human Trafficking
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261103492
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2007
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 7138740290
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Victims' Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,705,871
- Expenses
- $2,132,972
- Assets
- $1,344,996
- Liabilities
- $1,318,482
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TIMEKA WALKER (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- TIMEKA WALKER (CEO): $126,500 total reported compensation
- TITUS BENTON (CHIEF OF STAFF): $107,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To end human trafficking through educating the community, preventing exploitation, and empowering survivors.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Prevention Department continues to make significant strides in increasing awareness and equipping professionals with the tools to identify and respond to human trafficking. This year, the team successfully trained the entire Houston Police Department in collaboration with the HPD Vice Unit, a comprehensive effort that included not only police officers but also accountants, pilots, administrative staff, and specialized units within the department.Beyond Houston, our Prevention team has been actively providing frontline professional trainings throughout Fort Bend County in partnership with the District Attorneys Office. These trainings have strengthened local capacity to recognize and respond to trafficking and have fostered stronger partnerships with social service and healthcare providers.Most recently, we expanded our reach to include Communities In Schools and the Houston Area Womens Center, where we trained social workers and case staff on identifying trafficking indicators, responding with a trauma-informed lens, and connecting survivors to appropriate resources. These collaborations reflect our ongoing commitment to ensuring that frontline professionals across multiple sectors are equipped to prevent and intervene in cases of human trafficking.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
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: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.6%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 76.5%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.89 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: -25%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.63; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.98; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.9%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.8% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 28.4% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.6% of revenue deployed · 76.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $126K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 34/100.