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← FOR THE SILENT

Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by FOR THE SILENT.

Totals

Total revenue
$270,521
Total expenses
$424,849
Contributions and grants received
$368,800
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
-$98,279
Total assets, end of year
$317,990
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$317,990
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$309,214
Management and general expenses
$74,570
Fundraising expenses
$41,065
Program service expenses (Part III)
$309,214

Program services were 72.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $140,065

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $228,735

  • 2a · Program service revenue: PROGRAM SERVICE

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $0

  • 4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

    total $0

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

    total $0

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $0

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $140,065

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $104,087

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total -$104,087

  • 9c · Net income from gaming

    total $0

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $0

  • 11a · Other revenue: OTHER

    total $5,808 · related or exempt $5,808

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $5,808

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $0

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $0

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $0

  • 4 · Benefits paid to or for members

    total $0

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $50,000 · program services $42,500 · management and general $7,500

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $160,622 · program services $115,467 · management and general $24,093 · fundraising $21,062

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $0

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $0

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $16,072 · program services $12,054 · management and general $2,411 · fundraising $1,607

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $0

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $0

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $16,581 · management and general $16,581

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $0

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $0

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $0

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $6,418 · fundraising $6,418

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $7,624 · program services $5,718 · management and general $1,906

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $0

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $0

  • 17 · Travel

    total $0

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $0

  • 20 · Interest

    total $0

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $40 · management and general $40

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $8,534 · program services $6,400 · management and general $2,134

  • 24a · Other expenses: CONTRACT LABOR

    total $81,008 · program services $81,008

  • 24b · Other expenses: TECHNOLOGY & SOFTWARE

    total $22,616 · program services $16,962 · management and general $5,654

  • 24c · Other expenses: RENT

    total $20,964 · program services $15,723 · management and general $5,241

  • 24d · Other expenses: PROFESSIONAL DEV/TRAINING

    total $8,948 · program services $6,711 · management and general $2,237

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $25,422 · program services $6,671 · management and general $6,773 · fundraising $11,978

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $471,577 · end of year $317,289

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    end of year $0

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    end of year $0

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    end of year $0

  • 5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

    end of year $0

  • 6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons

    end of year $0

  • 7 · Other notes and loans receivable

    end of year $0

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $682 · end of year $682

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    end of year $0

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $39,343

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $39,324

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $59 · end of year $19

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    end of year $0

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    end of year $0

  • 13 · Investments: program-related

    end of year $0

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    end of year $0

  • 15 · Other assets

    end of year $0

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $472,318 · end of year $317,990

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Through prevention, survivor care, and community transformation programs - For the Silent works to end sex trafficking and exploitation by empowering the voices of vulnerable and exploited youth.

  • FTS's Survivor Care program directly assists sex trafficking survivors by providing legal advocacy, emotional support, emergency and long-term housing coordination, and service referrals. Our main goal with Survivor Care is the relationship itself which has been found to help keep clients engaged with other service providers in the community, support clients to participate or remain accessible for law enforcement investigations, and most importantly, help clients stay safe and work toward recovery. Survivor care and advocacy was provided to 58 trafficking victims and 2 traffickers were prosecuted.

    Expenses $309,214

  • I Have A Voice is an outreach and prevention program reaching teen girls most vulnerable to commercial sexual exploitation. The program reaches high risk youth in juvenile detention centers, child advocacy centers, schools, and low-income housing with powerful prevention education and long term mentorship. IHAV identifies and addresses the vulnerabilities which put youth at-risk to trafficker recruitment and helps champion their voices throughout their adolescence. The IHAV program had 210 group graduates. In addition, 1,996 teens received awareness education, 97 juvenile detention youth were reached, and there were 19 Thrive summer internship participants.

  • The Community Transformation program strives to change culture's mindsets by providing professional in depth training to law enforcement, medical professionals, group home staff, pregnancy resource centers, school staff, child advocacy centers, and other social service providers. The program also includes a coordinated community response team made up of law enforcement, medical, mental health, child welfare services, juvenile justice services and other organizations who work together to grow the community's capacity to serve victims of sex trafficking. The Community Transformation program provided training to 512 community members and 90 service providers.

  • FTSs Advocacy Program directly assists high risk youth and victims of commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking by advocating for their voice through case management, housing coordination, and empowerment programs. Our main goal is the relationship itself which has been found to help keep clients engaged with other service providers in the community, support clients to participate or remain accessible for law enforcement investigations, and, most importantly, help clients stay safe and work toward recovering their voice.

  • FTS has a few smaller programs that support their mission to end sex trafficking and exploitation by empowering the voices of vulnerable and exploited youth.

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Cindy Hernandez

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $50,000
    From this org
    $50,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Yvonne Wright

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2
  • Brett Howlett

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2
  • Jason Trimble

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2
  • Raquel Carpenter

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.2
  • Teri Killingsworth

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • John Johnson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
7 November 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202523119349302362

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