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· Public charity

Rescue- Freedom International

We exist to accelerate and resource the fight against sex trafficking and exploitation.

$2.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
18
States reached
$220k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$2.1MHousing & Shelter$1.2MCrime & Legal$1.1MHealth$622kInternational$609kReligion$512kEmployment$259kCommunity Improvement$224kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 30 grants below total $1,357,716, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,556,789 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,199,073 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 $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $472k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $877k
$40,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EverFree$219,679
International Generosity Foundation$158,800
Justice Ventures International$102,500
Hosea's Heart$61,500
Street Grace$60,000
Starfish Project$60,000
Hope's Cry International$58,400
Seven Sisters International$56,500
Restore NYC$50,000
The Well House$50,000
EPIK Project$45,000
Ancora TN$45,000
Engedi Refuge Ministries$40,389
ALIGHT Mobilizing Justice$40,000
Tides Center$40,000
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 (FY22–25, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%EverFree: $220k → 10%GenerateHope: $11k → 11%Restore NYC: $146k → 17%Elijah Rising: $10k → 16%Wings of Refuge: $20k → 17%End Slavery TN: $164k → 14%Street Grace: $146k → 9%Seven Sisters International: $70k → 9%Starfish Project: $109k → 13%Queens of Digital Marketing: $10k → 10%EverFree: $203k → 10%Restore NYC: $135k → 17%Ancora TN: $109k → 14%Street Grace: $135k → 9%Seven Sisters International: $65k → 9%Starfish Project: $90k → 13%Everfree: $184k → 10%Restore NYC: $126k → 17%Ancora TN: $100k → 14%Street Grace: $126k → 9%Seven Sisters International: $57k → 9%Starfish Project: $60k → 13%Restore NYC: $50k → 17%Ancora TN: $45k → 14%Street Grace: $60k → 9%Rest Stop Ministries Inc: $10k → 14%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

WA
MT
WI
NY
OR
IA
IN
OH
NJ
CT
CA
CO
KY
MD
TN
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $1.2M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 7 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

East Asia and the Pacific$431k · 36% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: Anti-trafficking Programs

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$305k · 26% · 6 grants

Stated purpose: Anti-trafficking Programs

North America (Canada and Mexico)$133k · 11% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: Anti-trafficking Programs

South America$128k · 11% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: Anti-trafficking Programs

Sub-Saharan Africa$78k · 7% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: Anti-trafficking Programs

South Asia$70k · 6% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Anti-trafficking Programs

Russia and Neighboring States$45k · 4% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Anti-trafficking Programs

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.9M · 21 repeat orgs$841k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
14

Total granted

$5.9M
$611k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+32%

Still filing today

95%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesInternationalReligionCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterCommunity 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

  • SG
    Street Grace Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $468k · revenue +38%
  • TW
    THE WELLHOUSE INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $407k · revenue +29%
  • EP
    EPIK PROJECT
    4× · 2022–2025 · $399k · revenue +3% · 37% of their budget

Funded once

  • 1T
    10 THOUSAND WINDOWS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $88k · revenue -74%
  • RN
    Restore NYC
    one grant, 2021 · $61k
  • SG
    Street Grace
    one grant, 2021 · $60k
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
Restoration House of Greater Kansas City

ReHope empowers and elevates survivors of human trafficking and sexual exploitation through its faith-based, trauma-informed residence and recovery programs.

Housing & Shelter
4
STRIVE2FREE

Raised significant funds for housing of human trafficking victims andraised awareness of the problem of human trafficking in the process.

Human Services
5
Eden Ministry

Eden Ministry seeks to advocate for trafficked victims in Asia to reach rescue and restore them from exploitation

Religion
6
Healing and Resilience After Trauma

Support victims of human trafficking

Human Services
7
From Silenced to Saved

FSTS is committed to combat Human Trafficking by being the provider of choice for victim response services focused to empower victims and survivors from initial recovery to adjudication. Partnering with law enforcement and judicial efforts…

Health
8
Joy International

JOY International is dedicated to the prevention of child trafficking and to the freedom, healing, and empowerment of trafficked children, teens, and young adults worldwide.

Human Services
9
Trafficking in America Task Force Inc

Human Rights Organization

Human Services
10
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
11
True Justice International Inc

To exeucte true justice on a global scale in order to promote the restoration of humanity with mercy and compassion through strategic initiatives that focus on the

Human Services
12
Thrive New England

Human trafficking prevention and support services for victims.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rest Stop Ministries Inc; the most unlike its peers is Igft Corporation. 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

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 49 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
18/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Willow International Everfree: $606,683 · Human ServicesWillow International EverfreeStreet Grace Inc: $467,550 · Human ServicesStreet Grace IncRESTORE NYC INC: $457,550 · Human ServicesRESTORE NYC INCANCORATN FKA END SLAVERY TENNESSEE INC: $417,050 · Human ServicesANCORATN FKA END SLAVERY TENNESSEE INCStarfish Project Incorporated: $258,550 · Human ServicesStarfish Project IncorporatedSEVEN SISTERS INTERNATIONAL: $191,917 · Human ServicesSEVEN SISTERS INTERNATIONAL+7 more: $109,000 · Human ServicesEPIK PROJECT: $399,220 · Crime & LegalEPIK PROJECTENGEDI REFUGE MINISTRIES: $315,789 · Crime & LegalENGEDI REFUGE MINISTR…REAL ESCAPE FROM THE SEX TRADE: $283,750 · Crime & LegalREAL ESCAPE FROM THE …A Safe Place Inc: $245,830 · Crime & LegalA Safe Place Inc+1 more: $15,000 · Crime & LegalNATIONAL TRAFFICKING SHELTERED ALLIANCE: $198,268 · OtherNATIONAL TRAFFI…10 THOUSAND WINDOWS INC: $87,600 · Other10 THOUSAND WIN…Justice Defense Fund: $67,500 · OtherJustice Defense…Restore NYC: $61,150 · OtherRestore NYCStreet Grace: $59,500 · OtherStreet GraceEPIK Project: $58,750 · OtherEPIK ProjectRefuge for Women: $57,750 · OtherRefuge for Wome…REST: $50,100 · OtherREST10 Thousand Windows: $48,475 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $39,425 · OtherA Safe Place: $35,900 · OtherThe Well House: $30,975 · OtherPROSTITUTION RESEARCH AND EDUCATION: $59,160 · OtherPROSTITUTION RE…+4 more: $65,385 · Other+4 moreJUSTICE VENTURES INTERNATIONAL: $362,917 · InternationalJUSTICE VEN…HOSEAS HEART INC: $144,833 · InternationalHOSEAS HEAR…UNITED JUSTICE: $105,033 · InternationalUNITED JUST…ALIGHT ALLIANCE TO LEAD IMPACT IN GLOBAL: $40,000 · InternationalALIGHT ALLI…FREE THE SLAVES: $34,448 · International+1 more: $15,500 · InternationalTHE WELLHOUSE INC: $406,770 · Housing & ShelterTHE WELLH…REFUGE FOR WOMEN INC: $168,337 · Housing & ShelterREFUGE FO…IGFT Corporation: $398,383 · ReligionIGFT Corp…HOPE'S CRY INTERNATIONAL: $77,150 · ReligionHOPE'S CR…REFUGE FOUNDATION: $36,000 · ReligionREFUGE FO…Embers International: $19,000 · Religion+1 more: $17,000 · ReligionRAIN COLLECTIVE INCORPORATED: $223,882 · Community Improvement
Human Services$2,508,300Crime & Legal$1,259,589Other$919,938International$702,731Housing & Shelter$575,107Religion$547,533Community Improvement$223,882

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWillow International Everfree: $606,683 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetStreet Grace Inc: $467,550 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetRESTORE NYC INC: $457,550 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetANCORATN FKA END SLAVERY TENNESSEE INC: $417,050 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetTHE WELLHOUSE INC: $406,770 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetEPIK PROJECT: $399,220 over 4y, 37% of budgetJUSTICE VENTURES INTERNATIONAL: $362,917 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetENGEDI REFUGE MINISTRIES: $315,789 over 6y, 8.4% of budgetREAL ESCAPE FROM THE SEX TRADE: $283,750 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetStarfish Project Incorporated: $258,550 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetA Safe Place Inc: $245,830 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetRAIN COLLECTIVE INCORPORATED: $223,882 over 3y, 62% of budgetNATIONAL TRAFFICKING SHELTERED ALLIANCE: $198,268 over 3y, 19% of budgetSEVEN SISTERS INTERNATIONAL: $191,917 over 3y, 22% of budgetREFUGE FOR WOMEN INC: $168,337 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHOSEAS HEART INC: $144,833 over 3y, 17% of budgetUNITED JUSTICE: $105,033 over 3y, 30% of budgetHOPE'S CRY INTERNATIONAL: $77,150 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetJustice Defense Fund: $67,500 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetPROSTITUTION RESEARCH AND EDUCATION: $59,160 over 2y, 48% of budgetALIGHT ALLIANCE TO LEAD IMPACT IN GLOBAL: $40,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetREFUGE FOUNDATION: $36,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFREE THE SLAVES: $34,448 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWINGS OF REFUGE: $20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMexico RED: $15,500 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetGENERATEHOPE INC: $11,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetElijah Rising: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetREST STOP MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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.

The Jensen Project IncHuman Investment Foun…Institute for Survivo…Stewardship FoundationDressember FoundationServing USA Inc Fka S…Natl Christian Charit…Our RescueServant FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The Blackbaud Giving …
The Jensen Project IncTX19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Jensen Project Inc · Human Investment Foundation · Institute for Survivor Care Inc · Stewardship Foundation · Dressember Foundation · Serving USA Inc Fka Serving California · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Our Rescue · Servant Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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 Rescue- Freedom International funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rescue- Freedom International. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 53%
  • Selah Freedom Inc: 53% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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 49 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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