Our Mission

Guardian Group’s mission is to prevent and disrupt the sex trafficking of women and children in the United States.

Needs We Address

human trafficking sex trafficking veterans child abuse Guardian Group Protection Against Abuse Child Abuse Prevention Military & Veterans Organizations

Website

guardiangroup.org/

Phone

+1 8003808913

Email

contact@guardiangroup.org

Office

1900 Ne 3rd St. Suite 106 #40
Bend, OR 97701
United States

DBA

Guardian Group

Nonprofit/Charity Since

2010

Registered Country

United States

EIN

72-1613750

NTEE Category

I70 - Protection Against Abuse ? Organizations that attempt to reduce the incidence of child abuse, elder abuse and spouse abuse in family settings through educational interventions which may focus on children of various ages, parents, people who work with families and/or the community at large.

I72 - Child Abuse Prevention ? Organizations that deal specifically with the prevention of child abuse including incest through educational interventions which may focus on children of various ages, parents, people who work with families and/or the community at large.

W30 - Military & Veterans Organizations ? Membership organizations that are engaged in promoting the interests of the veterans or active or retired military personnel who are their members.

Mission

Guardian Group’s mission is to prevent and disrupt the sex trafficking of women and children in the United States.

Vision

Our vision is that every child in the US lives free from sex trafficking.

Short-term Goals

Scaling Guardian Group’s internal analysis team is necessary to increase victim identification and support to law enforcement because enough analysts allow for regional expertise. Assigning an analysts to focus on a specific region increases their effectiveness in victim identification in that specific region resulting in increased support of LE. While simultaneously expanding our complementary volunteer program Project 1591. Further development of the Project 1591 volunteer platform is vital to scaling to meet the ever-increasing problem of domestic sex trafficking. Additional feature development will create a better user experience and more efficient process to provide victim identification to law enforcement. This program increases community engagement and finding victims online.

Long-term Goals

By 2028 Guardian Group’s programs are scaled up and able to provide victim identification assistance to law enforcement across the nation. Through this growth we will see a demonstrated decrease in the number of online advertisements, and NCMEC will observe a decrease in the number of children exploited for sex.

Value Statement

• Ferocious resolve and perseverance
• Quiet professional and servant leader
• Trust and transparency
• Quality impact
• Intense leverage

Elevator Speech

We prevent and disrupt the sex trafficking of women and children in the United States.

Our vision is that every child in the US lives free from sex trafficking. We are seeing this vision come to life as more victims are offered a path to freedom.

The Guardian Group team utilizes two most efficient and proven strategies to achieve this mission. Through our own expertise and the help of our crowdsourced volunteer force, we identify women and minors who are victims of domestic sex trafficking nationwide. Our no-cost support to local, state, and federal law enforcement results in increased recovery of these victims. Together we are harnessing the power of many to find the vulnerable.

Total Volunteers

129

Website

View Volunteer Page

Yearly Volunteer Hours

588

Written Plan

Structured Program

Yes

Waiver

990 Forms

2024 - None

2023 - None

2022 - 990

2021 - 990

Financial Statements

2024 - None

2023 - None

2022 - None

2021 -

Revenue

$1,015,097

Expenses

$668,836

Funds Spent on Salaries

$0

1-Year Financial Goals

Our goal this year is to raise $1.5 million, increasing our annual budget from $700,000 in previous years. This increase will rely on a diversification of our funding lines and an incorporation of a dedicated grant writing effort.

5-Year Financial Goals

Our goal in 2028 is to increase our annual budget from $6 million. This increase will rely on a diversification of our funding lines and an incorporation of a dedicated grant writing effort.

Top 5 Funders in Past Year

Private Foundation
Private Foundation
Private Individual
Private Foundation
Private Foundation

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Successes

Our PURSUIT team is made up of People United Responsibly Suppressing Underage Illicit Trafficking. Since inception the PURSUIT team has consisted of internal analysts working tirelessly to match the problem of domestic sex trafficking and this strategy remains highly effective. However, over the last few years, the need for a complimentary program to help scale to match the ever-increasing domestic sex trafficking problem has been in the forefront of our minds. Since 2019 we have worked in concert with higher learning, tech firms, and law enforcement officers to deliver a scalable solution, harnessing the power of volunteers across the country to fight sex trafficking in their own community. Through years of testing and refining Project 1591 was launched in July of 2022. The development and on-boarding of volunteers remained our priority throughout the year. By harnessing the power of volunteers across the nation, underage victims of sex trafficking will be identified, and time-sensitive information will be passed to law enforcement partners ready to receive this product to take action. The results, more victims offered a path to freedom!

Funders

Guardian Group receives support from a variety of foundations, nonprofits and for profits. These funds are used primarily to fund our Analysis Team, Project 1591 and all supporting activities associated with this effort across the nation. M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust Google Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund Nickless Family Charitable Foundation

Challenges

Human trafficking – the buying and selling of people – is the fastest growing criminal industry in the world. Every day in America, there are 150,000 new advertisements selling people for sex online. Our law enforcement agencies do not have the resources to adequately combat this crime alone. Continuing to scale our efforts to match this ever increasing problem is our biggest challenge.

Partnerships

Guardian Groups partnerships were fundamental in the stand up Project 1591. Further our partnership with nonprofits provides law enforcement and communities support across the full cycle of sex trafficking from Prevention, Disruption, After Care through Restoration.