Washington · Nonprofit
REAL ESCAPE FROM THE SEX TRADE
REAL ESCAPE FROM THE SEX TRADE (Washington) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,575,990 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($1,006,394). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 58
- Grants received
- $6.6M
- Net assets
- $775k
What Real Escape From the Sex Trade does
Mission
We exist to provide pathways to freedom, safety, and hope for victims of sex trafficking and people involved in the sex trade.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Rest emergency services includes outreach, a 24/7 hotline, and an emergency shelter for survivors engaged in the sex trade. In fy 2025, rest conducted 70 street outreach efforts, 19 text outreach campaigns, and 56 partner outreach activities. The hotline served 513 individuals through 3,446 calls and texts, providing emotional support, safety planning, referrals, and shelter screening. Rest's low-barrier shelter offers 7 private bedrooms with stays of 3090 days and provided 52 individuals with 2,200 bed nights in fy 2025.
$793,569 spent29% of program spendingRest's community services program provides trauma-informed, person-centered case management and housing support for youth, adults, and senior survivors of the sex trade. Advocates help clients access resources and achieve individualized goals, while housing services supports clients with housing applications, move-in costs, rental assistance, landlord debt, and eviction prevention. In fy 2025, advocates assisted 120 clients in achieving 285 goals, and housing services supported 89 clients with obtaining and maintaining stable housing.
$1,494,261 spent55% of program spendingThe pathways services center includes enrichment services and behavioral health. Enrichment services helps clients meet basic needs, access resources, and participate in workshops that support life skills and personal goals. Behavioral health provides group and individualized support for mental health and substance use. In fy 2025, mental health services served 95 clients through 438 treatment sessions, while substance use services engaged 72 clients and held 26 group sessions.
$435,181 spent16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,723,011.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2022 to 2023, from $446k to $1.5M (+237%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 11% · 2019 15% · 2020 9% · 2021 15% · 2022 32% · 2023 35% · 2024 34% · 2025 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of REAL ESCAPE FROM THE SEX TRADE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Brent Turner
Chairman/treasurer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $393k → $1.1M.
13 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 REAL ESCAPE FROM THE SEX TRADE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 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
REAL ESCAPE FROM THE SEX TRADE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
85% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund REAL ESCAPE FROM THE SEX TRADE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 32% · 2019 35% · 2020 20% · 2021 27% · 2022 19% · 2023 18% — 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
42% of REAL ESCAPE FROM THE SEX TRADE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
REAL ESCAPE FROM THE SEX TRADE draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
REAL ESCAPE FROM THE SEX TRADE has grown faster than half of the 852 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 852 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding REAL ESCAPE FROM THE SEX TRADE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.4M on record.
- Department of Justice$2.4M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like REAL ESCAPE FROM THE SEX TRADE
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for REAL ESCAPE FROM THE SEX TRADE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds REAL ESCAPE FROM THE SEX TRADE?
- REAL ESCAPE FROM THE SEX TRADE (Washington) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,575,990 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($1,006,394). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does REAL ESCAPE FROM THE SEX TRADE have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $6,575,990 in grants to REAL ESCAPE FROM THE SEX TRADE, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REAL ESCAPE FROM THE SEX TRADE?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,006,394 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REAL ESCAPE FROM THE SEX TRADE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 58 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing