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Our Rescue

OUR RESCUE works collaboratively with law enforcement agencies worldwide to identify, arrest, and prosecute traffickers.

$6.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
178
Grants FY2025still arriving
48
States reached
$245k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$6.9MHuman Services$3.9MInternational$3.7MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.2MEmployment$937kScience & Tech$912kCommunity Improvement$878kReligion$738kOther$0
02FY2025 · 178 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 178 grants below total $2,886,746, the rows itemized in this filing. The $6,150,016 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,263,270 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k76 grants · $557k
  • $10k–50k95 grants · $1.5M
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $855k
$10,668
Median grant
48
States reached
$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Human Trafficking Training Center$245,000
Unbound Now$150,000
City of Arlington - Arlington Police Department$140,000
County of Riverside California - Riverside County District Attorney$104,165
Rescue Hill Nazarene Compassionate Ministry Center$100,000
We Fight Monsters LTD$65,000
Mississippi State University$50,486
County of Solano - Solano County Sheriff's Office$40,291
Montgomery County Texas - Montgomery County Precinct 3 Constable's Office$33,961
Garvin County - Garvin County Sheriff's Office$32,902
Washington County - Washington County Sheriff's Office$25,855
Hope Center Indy INC$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
County of Hawaii - Hawaii Police Department$24,103
County of Lycoming - Lycoming County District Attorney's Office$23,209
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $3.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WORLD LINKS ASSOCIATION INC: $92k → 13%Twigs Restoration Ministry: $10k → 14%PATHFINDERS JUSTICE INITIATIVE INC: $24k → 28%CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA - DBA - CHILDREN'S HOME LSS: $15k → 14%HEARTSENT ADOPTIONS INC: $11k → 9%BUILDING ARIZONA FAMILIES: $25k → 11%CHILD ADOPTION ASSOCIATES INC: $30k → 16%CHILDREN OF ALL NATIONS: $175k → 10%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $40k → 11%HANDS ACROSS THE WATER: $20k → 14%HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $45k → 15%HOPE FOR JUSTICE INC: $24k → 14%HOPSCOTCH ADOPTIONS INC: $30k → 16%ARISE: $97k → 6%WASATCH INTERNATIONAL: $182k → 9%STREET GRACE INC: $25k → 9%DRESSEMBER FOUNDATION: $23k → 9%AGAPE ADOPTIONS: $17k → 9%AMERICA WORLD ADOPTION ASSOCIATION: $40k → 6%CALL TO FREEDOM INC: $18k → 9%NEW HOPE FOR CHILDREN: $126k → 9%THE SAMARITAN WOMEN INSTITUTE FOR SHELTER CARE: $50k → 4%BUILDING ARIZONA FAMILIES: $15k → 11%MADISON ADOPTION ASSOCIATES: $387k → 10%CHILDREN OF ALL NATIONS: $118k → 10%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $25k → 11%SWITCH INC: $15k → 10%HANDS ACROSS THE WATER INC: $10k → 14%HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $25k → 15%WASATCH INTERNATIONAL ADOPTIONS: $40k → 9%RACING FOR ORPHANS WITH DOWN SYNDROME INC: $1.0M → 12%Call to Freedom Inc: $18k → 9%NEW HOPE FOR CHILDREN: $20k → 9%BUILDING ARIZONA FAMILIES: $12k → 11%MADISON ADOPTION ASSOCIATES: $120k → 10%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $10k → 11%WASATCH INTERNATIONAL ADOPTIONS: $10k → 9%MADISON ADOPTION ASSOCIATES: $44k → 10%WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN INC: $35k → 8%CHILDHELP INC: $101k → 11%WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN INC: $30k → 8%WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN INC: $19k → 8%Rescue Hill Nazarene Compassionate Ministry Center: $100k → 11%UTAH CRIME VICTIMS': $54k → 8%UTAH CRIME VICTIM LEGAL CLINIC INC: $43k → 8%UTAH CRIME VICTIM LEGAL CLINIC INC: $21k → 8%PHOENIX DREAM CENTER: $65k → 11%PHOENIX DREAM CENTER: $32k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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AR
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Grants abroad, by region: $1.7M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 6 regions, $1.6M to organizations and $51k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

East Asia and the Pacific$498k · 30% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Law Enforcement Supplies & Equipment, Survivor Care Facility Repairs & Maintenance, Supplies & Equipment, Education Support

South America$419k · 25% · 1 grant · 1 person

Stated purpose: Law Enforcement Supplies & Equipment, Logistic, Investigative Software, Training and Capacity Building Support, Survivor Care Supplies & Equipment Support · Survivor Care Personal Supplies & Equipment, Therapy, and Education Support

Sub-Saharan Africa$322k · 20% · 1 grant · 2 people

Stated purpose: Law Enforcement Supplies & Equipment, Logistic, Training and Capacity Building Support Support, Survivor Care Facility Repairs & Maintenance and Supplies & Equipment Support · Survivor Care Medical and Transport Support

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$271k · 16% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Law Enforcement Supplies & Equipment, Logistic, Investigative Software, Training and Capacity Building Support, Survivor Care Facitlity Repairs & Maintenance and Therapy Support

North America (Canada and Mexico)$112k · 7% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Law Enforcement Investigative Software, K9 Support

Central America and the Caribbean$27k · 2% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Law Enforcement Supplies & Equipment, Logistic, Investigative Software, Training and Capacity Building Support

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

37%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.6M · 85 repeat orgs$13M to everyone else

85 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 52 since wound down; 142 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

85
484

Total granted

$7.6M
$11M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-6%
+9%

Still filing today

31%
15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCrime & LegalInternationalHealthReligionCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • LJ
    LOVE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL
    2× · 2021–2022 · $220k · revenue +36%
  • CH
    CITY HELP INC OF PHOENIX
    3× · 2020–2023 · $107k · revenue +65%
  • WIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $84k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • RH
    RODS HEROES INC
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue -46% · 78% of their budget
  • TM
    This Mission
    one grant, 2021 · $850k · revenue -57% · 99% of their budget
  • LA
    LIBERTY AND LIGHT SPEAR FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $510k · revenue -53% · 76% of their budget
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Untrafficked Inc
Human Services
2
California Human Trafficking Investigators and Prosecuters Asso
Crime & Legal
3
Courage Worldwide Inc

To provide homes and resources for children who have been recovered from sex trafficking worldwide so they begin their unique journey of healing and be a courageous leader in the global anti-trafficking movement.

Human Services
4
Seven Sisters International

Seven Sisters International provides rehabilitative care to girls who have been rescued from trafficking and sexual abuse by offering medical and psychological services, social work, education, life skills training, job preparation, and…

Human Services
5
Mission 89 Inc

Fight human trafficking

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6
Mukti International

Mukti is a Sanskrit word that means "freedom from oppression and exploitation". Our goal is to see women and children find pathways to freedom. We partner with organizations around Asia that are on the frontlines helping to rescue and…

Crime & Legal
7
Global Family Care Network Inc

Protecting children and preserving families in vulnerable communities with an emphasis on the prevention, intervention, and restoration of young victims of commercial sexual exploitation and human trafficking. The organization works in the…

International
8
American Society for the Protection of Freedom and Families Inc

Fighting Human Trafficing

Youth Development
9
Hope Rising dba Hope Rising Ministries

To provide emergency and long-term wrap-around therapeutic care to the minor survivors of sex trafficking and exploitation.

Human Services
10
Trafficking in America Task Force Inc

Human Rights Organization

Human Services
11
Our Rescue

Our rescue works collaboratively with law enforcement agencies worldwide to identify, arrest, and prosecute traffickers. we provide compassionate care for our survivors, beginning with crisis relief and ending months or years later with…

Arts & Culture
12
Not Abandoned

To prevent sex slavery by changing the world view of affected communities and to liberate those already enslaved by providing safe environments for healing, and business opportunities that lead to full and transformed lives.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Street Grace Inc; the most unlike its peers is Watertown Police Dept Charity Golf Tournament Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

118 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 118 of the 711 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

17
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
112/118
Grantees still filing
56/118
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOPE CENTER INDY INC: $777,150 · OtherHOPE CENTER INDY INCHuman Trafficking Training Center: $509,037 · OtherHuman Trafficking Training CenterOpen Door Adoption Agency Inc: $499,496 · OtherOpen Door Adoption Agency IncSTATE OF UTAH GOVERNOR'S OFFICE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: $474,793 · OtherSTATE OF UTAH GOVERNOR'S OFFICE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTIndividual grant recipient: $333,000 · Other+149 more: $5,606,135 · Other+149 moreRODS HEROES INC: $1,000,000 · Human ServicesRODS HEROES INCMADISON ADOPTION ASSOCIATES LTD: $550,500 · Human ServicesMADISON ADOPTION ASSOCIATE…GREAT WALL CHINA ADOPTION INC: $292,620 · Human ServicesGREAT WALL CHINA ADOPTION …WASATCH INTERNATIONAL ADOPTIONS INC: $231,500 · Human ServicesWASATCH INTERNATIONAL ADOP…NEW HOPE CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC D/B/A NEW HOPE FOR CHILDREN: $146,000 · Human ServicesUTAH CRIME VICTIM LEGAL CLINIC INC: $117,968 · Human Services+21 more: $1,184,497 · Human Services+21 moreHAND IN HAND: $705,000 · InternationalLOVE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL: $220,000 · InternationalUNCAGED: $100,000 · InternationalALL GOD'S CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL: $50,000 · InternationalFamilies Mentoring Families: $46,937 · International+3 more: $75,000 · InternationalThis Mission: $850,000 · Community ImprovementRAPHA HOUSE INTERNATIONAL INC: $250,000 · Crime & LegalSTREETLIGHTUSA: $87,036 · Crime & LegalChildrens International Rescue Foundation: $65,000 · Crime & LegalENGEDI REFUGE MINISTRIES: $40,000 · Crime & LegalGLOBAL CENTURION FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Crime & LegalDOORS TO FREEDOM: $21,877 · Crime & LegalJOURNEY OF HOPE INC: $20,000 · Crime & LegalLove Never Fails Inc: $20,000 · Crime & LegalLIBERTY AND LIGHT SPEAR FUND: $510,000 · Public BenefitEmpowered to Change International Inc: $270,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$8,199,611Human Services$3,523,085International$1,196,937Community Improvement$850,000Crime & Legal$528,913Public Benefit$510,000Housing & Shelter$270,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRODS HEROES INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 78% of budgetThis Mission: $850,000 over 1y, 99% of budgetHAND IN HAND: $705,000 over 3y, 72% of budgetMADISON ADOPTION ASSOCIATES LTD: $550,500 over 3y, 18% of budgetLIBERTY AND LIGHT SPEAR FUND: $510,000 over 1y, 76% of budgetOpen Door Adoption Agency Inc: $499,496 over 3y, 16% of budgetGREAT WALL CHINA ADOPTION INC: $292,620 over 2y, 11% of budgetEmpowered to Change International Inc: $270,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetWASATCH INTERNATIONAL ADOPTIONS INC: $231,500 over 3y, 28% of budgetLOVE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL: $220,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetUNBOUND NOW: $158,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HORIZONS ADOPTION AGENCY INC: $156,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetMARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $154,904 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEW HOPE CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC D/B/A NEW HOPE FOR CHILDREN: $146,000 over 2y, 78% of budgetUTAH CRIME VICTIM LEGAL CLINIC INC: $117,968 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetCITY HELP INC OF PHOENIX: $107,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDHELP INC: $100,717 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE KOMITE INC: $100,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetVANGUARD UNIVERSITY OF SO CAL: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNCAGED: $100,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetARISE PROJECT FOR HUMANITY: $97,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetWashington State Patrol Union Troopers Association: $92,499 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetWORLD LINKS ASSOCIATION INC: $92,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetSTREETLIGHTUSA: $87,036 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetWIDE HORIZONS FOR CHILDREN INC: $84,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetLILY HAVEN: $80,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetHOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $78,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSMALL WORLD INC: $70,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetChildrens International Rescue Foundation: $65,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetAgape International Missions: $64,790 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBREAKING CHAINS: $60,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetBUILDING ARIZONA FAMILIES: $52,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetREDEMPTION HOUSE: $50,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SURVIVOR CARE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetALL GOD'S CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRESPIRE MINISTRIES: $50,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCHILDRENS HOUSE INTERNATIONAL: $50,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTHE NAZARENE FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFamilies Mentoring Families: $46,937 over 2y, 23% of budgetAMERICA WORLD ADOPTION ASSOCIATION: $40,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetENGEDI REFUGE MINISTRIES: $40,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetCALL TO FREEDOM: $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPLAYING FOR CHANGE FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGARDEN GATE RANCH INC: $31,031 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetHOPSCOTCH ADOPTIONS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetFAMILY NETWORK ADOPTION CENTER: $30,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHANDS ACROSS THE WATER INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Kennel Club …Center for Technology…National Recreation a…Firehouse Subs Public…Ephesians 320 Foundat…Best Friends Animal S…Safe House Project IncdoTERRA Healing Hands…Council of State and …Cities for Financial …The Recycling Partner…American Bar Associat…
American Kennel Club Companion Animal Recovery CorporationNY39.7× affinity27 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Kennel Club Companion Animal Recovery Corporation · Center for Technology and Civic Life · National Recreation and Park Association · Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc · Ephesians 320 Foundation Inc · Best Friends Animal Society · Safe House Project Inc · doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation · Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists Inc · Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Inc · The Recycling Partnership Inc · American Bar Association

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Our Rescue funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Our Rescue. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    7get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 711 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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