Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by UnBound North Texas.

Totals

Total revenue: $584,179
Total expenses: $1,307,676
Contributions and grants received: $584,089
Grants paid: $0
Program service revenue: $0
Investment income: $45
Other revenue: $45
Total assets, end of year: $123,196
Total liabilities, end of year: $3,555
Net assets or fund balances, end of year: $119,641
Program services expenses (Part IX): $1,199,311
Management and general expenses: $92,769
Fundraising expenses: $15,596
Program service expenses (Part III): $1,199,311

Program services were 91.7% 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.

1e · Government grants (contributions)

$450,357
1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

$133,732
3 · Investment income

total $45 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $45
11a · Other revenue: Cash Back Rewards

total $45 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $45 · excluded $0
11e · Other revenue, total

$45

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

total $22,005 · program services $10,233 · management and general $11,772 · fundraising $0
7 · Other salaries and wages

total $191,464 · program services $168,473 · management and general $12,233 · fundraising $10,758
9 · Other employee benefits

total $26,589 · program services $21,518 · management and general $1,632 · fundraising $3,439
10 · Payroll taxes

total $17,048 · program services $13,723 · management and general $2,502 · fundraising $823
11a · Fees: management

total $1,680 · program services $1,680 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
11c · Fees: accounting

total $46,963 · program services $975 · management and general $45,988 · fundraising $0
13 · Office expenses

total $38,923 · program services $29,410 · management and general $9,373 · fundraising $140
16 · Occupancy

total -$112 · program services -$112 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
17 · Travel

total $13,177 · program services $12,759 · management and general $418 · fundraising $0
19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

total $13,489 · program services $9,442 · management and general $4,000 · fundraising $47
22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

total $6,552 · program services $6,510 · management and general $42 · fundraising $0
23 · Insurance

total $3,693 · program services $0 · management and general $3,693 · fundraising $0
24a · Other expenses: Background Checks

total $295 · program services $77 · management and general $218 · fundraising $0
24b · Other expenses: Dues & Subscriptions

total $1,102 · program services $713 · management and general $0 · fundraising $389
24c · Other expenses: Disposition of Assets

total $832,120 · program services $831,433 · management and general $687 · fundraising $0
24d · Other expenses: Security

total $91,305 · program services $91,305 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
24e · All other expenses

total $1,383 · program services $1,172 · management and general $211 · fundraising $0

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

beginning of year $545,347 · end of year $102,185
3 · Pledges and grants receivable

beginning of year $142,819 · end of year $21,011
9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

beginning of year $13,212
10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

beginning of year $200,461
14 · Intangible assets

beginning of year $13,438
17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

beginning of year $62,172 · end of year $3,555
24 · Unsecured notes and loans payable

beginning of year $9,967 · end of year $0
27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

beginning of year $725,202 · end of year $98,630
28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

beginning of year $117,936 · end of year $21,011

Mission and programs · 2022

Mission

Unbound North Texas exists to support survivors and resource the community to fight human trafficking through Survivor Advocacy, a 24/7 Drop-In Center, and Prevention and Awareness.

Survivor Advocacy: Unbound North Texas served survivors in North Texas in fiscal year 2022 with wraparound, relational advocacy. Unbound Now's team of advocates, serving youth and adults, provides both crisis response and ongoing case management. The team includes seven full-time, trained staff advocates, two Master's level program managers, and is led by a licensed clinical social worker. Two staff members are always on call to assist victims. Crisis response may include accompaniment for emergency medical treatment; arrangement of emergency shelter, food, and clothing; and response to other urgent needs. Ongoing case management and support includes regular meetings, goal setting, safety planning, transportation to needed services, accompaniment for interview and court appearances, and Crime Victims' Compensation assistance. Our advocates pave the way for survivors to exert their self-determination from the very first meeting. The Unbound Now Advocacy team uses evidence-based, trauma-informed, and survivor-centered practices to ensure that the relationship built between a survivor and their advocate is established quickly and carries through to support effective healing and restoration. Unbound Now Advocates are field-based so that they can meet survivors where they are, geographically and emotionally. As a result, Unbound Now has seen many survivors reach their goals and find restoration. The Unbound Now Advocacy program has been selected as an official advocacy provider by local child sex trafficking protocol development groups in Tarrant, Denton, and Johnson Counties. Unbound Now is endorsed by the Office of Texas Governor Greg Abbott's Child Sex Trafficking Team, which has established Minimum Standards and Best Practices for Commercially Sexually Exploited Youth. Human trafficking survivors have years of recovery ahead and they sometimes return to their trafficker because the healing process is so challenging. Unbound Now's advocates stay close to their clients and build trust over time- sometimes years.

Expenses $743,596
The Underground Drop-in Center: Open 24/7, The Underground offers youth through age 22 a safe place to rest, enjoy a meal, shower, participate in case management, GED and other empowerment programming, and receive referrals for additional services. This refuge for services helps Unbound Now identify typically difficult- to-reach youth in order to intervene earlier in their trafficking experience, sometimes before they are exploited. Additionally, The Underground includes a soft interview room where youth who have been victimized can share their difficult stories in a warm, comforting, and therapeutic environment. In the last grant year, The Underground served 400 unduplicated youth. Youth who exhibit clear-concern for human trafficking, as determined through the validated Commercial Sexual Exploitation Identification Tool (CSE-IT), are invited to work with an Unbound Now Advocate to help the survivor carry forward their restorative process for as long as needed. Others, who may be experiencing homelessness, family conflict, sexual abuse, or domestic violence are at high risk of exploitation and receive care at the Underground, as well as referrals to services to prevent future trafficking situations. Unbound Now's team at the drop-in center includes a "Comfort-Doodle" (emotional-support dog) named Wilber, who serves as a welcoming ambassador to visitors of the center.

Expenses $275,922
Prevention & Awareness: Within Prevention and Awareness, Unbound Now prevents trafficking through educating students on safe relationships, increases identification of survivors through targeted outreach, and equips direct service providers with an ability to provide referrals and trauma-informed care to survivors. Through a partnership with Fort Worth ISD funded by the Department of Health and Human Services, Unbound Now is on track to train thousands of students, teachers, and counselors on how to prevent and respond to human trafficking. As a result of our efforts, Fort Worth ISD is one of the only school districts in the country with a trauma-informed, survivor-centered plan for how to respond to trafficking situations in the student population. Last calendar year, Unbound North Texas trained 3,601 students, as well as hundreds of professionals and community members. As a community, it is essential that we experience a cultural shift that emphasizes empathy towards survivors and awareness of our shared responsibility for resolving the issue. Unbound Now has planned events every quarter that address both labor and trafficking and sex trafficking. Our outreach spans from vulnerable populations such as youth from hard places and workers who are undocumented, to medical professionals and hospitality industry leaders who can use their profession and influence to ensure survivors are identified and connected with resources. Outside of the core outreach events Unbound Now conducts, trainings are conducted frequently, usually weekly, by bilingual staff. By participating in training and presentations, community members can join the change that leads to identifying more survivors, shifting the cultural perception on human trafficking, and preventing trafficking from occurring altogether. Unbound Now's Keeping Students Safe curriculum offers age-appropriate content for students from grades five through 12. Unbound Now's training for school staff has been approved by the Texas Education Agency to provide continuing professional education for educator certificate renewal. The Youth Prevention team at Unbound Now has helped schools where youth have disclosed trafficking, assisting school staff in reporting the abuse and accessing appropriate services for the affected students. In addition to Youth Prevention Education and Community Outreach, Unbound Now provides training to help prefessionals identify and respond to victims of human trafficking in specific work settings. Up to 88 percent of human trafficking survivors seek healthcare while being trafficked according to the Polaris Project, yet healthcare professionals rarely identify victims while in their care. Unbound Now partners with hospitals and clinics to equip healthcare professionals to identify victims and respond appropriately to intervene with life-saving resources. Unbound Now's training on identifying and responding to victims of human trafficking in the clinical setting has been approved to provide continuing nursing education units (CNE) through the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP). Unbound Now is also approved by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to provide human trafficking training for healthcare practitioners, which is necessary for license renewal. In 2021, Texas passed a law requiring all hotel staff to be trained annually. Unbound Now's hotel training was among the first to be approved by the Office of the Attorney General to fulfill this training requirement and we offer it in English and Spanish to hotel staff. *For October-December 2022, Unbound North Texas operated under Unbound Now, a different organization, and the prevention and awareness numbers include those months.

Expenses $179,793

As filed on the 2022 return.

Listed in Part VII

Micah Scharchburg

President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Stephanie Byrd

Secretary

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
Susan Peters

Board Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Jamey Miller

Board Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.3
Sandy Hennip

Executive Director

Total calculated

$51,416

From this org

$51,416

From related orgs

$0

Other

$0

Hours/week

40
Zach Daniel

Board Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.3

Schedule J breakdown matched by us

Base

$0

Bonus

$0

Other

$0

Deferred

$0

Nontaxable benefits

$0

Filer's total

$0

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

None.

Answered no

4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
7 · Other non-fixed payments
8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Assets distributed on this return

Schedule N, as filed: what the organization did with its assets when it liquidated or dissolved, or disposed of more than a quarter of them, and who received them. A recipient with an EIN is usually a successor organization; filers also list expenses such as legal fees here.

Unbound Now

$169,481

Disposition · Leasehold Improvemnt · Jul 31, 2023 · 501(c)3

Provenance

Return type: form_990
Tax year: 2022
Filed: 12 September 2023
IRS schema version: 2022v5.0
Source object: 202420239349300712

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