Colorado · Nonprofit
LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING
LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING (Colorado) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,640,766 to it, the largest being BCS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($675,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $920k
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking does
Mission
To inform social change that eliminates human exploitation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Hotline and resource directory: this program's goal is to increase access to services for individuals experiencing trafficking and develop community-based agencies across colorado as they address human exploitation. We manage the 24/7 statewide colorado human trafficking hotline and text line, staffed by trained volunteer advocates who connect callers to vetted local services. Lcht also maintains an online resource directory listing more than 250 service providers. In 2025, we responded to 951 calls and texts. ------------- see schedule o for more detail -----------------
$372,130 spent37% of program spendingTraining and education program: lcht trains professionals and community members across colorado to recognize and respond to human trafficking using trauma-informed, culturally responsive approaches. In 2025, lcht delivered 220 training sessions, including 15 in spanish, reaching 8,877 people across 39 colorado counties. Ninety percent of surveyed participants reported they could define trafficking, identify key indicators, and felt confident taking appropriate action. Primary audiences included healthcare professionals, law enforcement, and practitioners working with systems-involved youth. -------------- see schedule o for more detail ----------------
$253,709 spent26% of program spendingCommunity-based research + action program: lcht contributes data-driven, community-centered research to the anti- trafficking field. In 2025, lcht conducted focus groups in colorado on root causes of trafficking among lgbtqia+ communities and explored risk and resilience factors within the child welfare system. This work builds on the colorado project 2023 report, a statewide analysis that now guides multi- sector efforts in housing, immigration, juvenile justice, and child welfare. -------------- see schedule o for more detail ----------------
$251,376 spent$1,698 earned by the program25% of program spendingLcht's leadership development program (ldp) prepares human rights leaders and survivors to contribute to the anti-trafficking field through two 10- week sessions annually. Participants complete 150 or more hours of hands-on learning alongside lcht staff. In 2025, lcht hired a dedicated ldp manager who redesigned core documentation, strengthened curriculum, and added seminars on compassionate leadership, sustainability, and career development. Eleven interns supported lcht programs in 2025, bringing the cumulative total to 219 since the program launched in 2005. Lcht awarded scholarships to six participants to increase access to the program, including for people with lived experience of human trafficking.
$115,201 spentof which $3,000 as grants12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $992,416.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $923k to $1.4M (+52%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 11% · 2021 19% · 2022 13% · 2023 23% · 2024 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Julie Anne Laser
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $21k → $365k.
10 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 41% · 2019 30% · 2020 41% · 2021 28% · 2022 57% · 2023 41% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
39% of LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
86% of LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $431k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING?
- LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING (Colorado) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,640,766 to it, the largest being BCS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($675,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $2,640,766 in grants to LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING?
- BCS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $675,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 40 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing