Our Mission

Guardian Group’s mission is to prevent and disrupt the sex trafficking of women and children while enabling partners to identify victims and predators 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 (541) 640-7991

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 while enabling partners to identify victims and predators in the United States.

Vision

Our vision is that every child in the US would live free from this form of slavery and the threat of it; where the innocence of all children is reclaimed and restored; and where the Guardian Group is the most trusted and effective resource in the fight against human trafficking in the US. We are seeing this vision come to life of more girls being recovered.

Short-term Goals

Guardian Group’s Offense programs expand providing consistent coverage across the west coast and Pacific Northwest, the Rocky Mountain region, the South West and South Central regions.

Long-term Goals

By 2027 Guardian Group’s programs are scaled up and able to provide training, education and intervention across the United States. 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

Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Bend Oregon, we partner with law enforcement across the United States to counter sex trafficking of women and minors. Between 2018 and 2021 Guardian Group identified 265 potential victims of sex trafficking across 18 states, enabling law enforcement to conduct numerous operations. In this timeframe, Guardian Group also trained and educated 10,689 people in the hospitality, law enforcement/first responder, and medical fields, as well as the greater community. Guardian Group’s team utilizes the skills and expertise of elite veteran intelligence analysts to identify and locate women and minors who are victims of sex trafficking. Our support assists local, state, and federal law enforcement in recovering these victims. Further, we provide sector specific training and education either face to face or online across the United States.

Total Volunteers

100

Website

View Volunteer Page

Yearly Volunteer Hours

1

Written Plan

Structured Program

Yes

Waiver

Strengths

Submitted Internally
Submitted Internally

Weaknesses

Submitted Internally
Submitted Internally

Opportunities

Submitted Internally
Submitted Internally

990 Forms

2022 - None

2021 - None

2020 - 990

2019 - 990

Financial Statements

2022 - None

2021 -

2020 -

2019 -

Revenue

$840,088

Expenses

$647,040

Funds Spent on Salaries

$348,690

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 2027 is to increase our annual budget from $700,000 in 2021 to $3 million in 2027. 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 Trust
Private Foundation
Private Individual
The Healy Foundation
Private Individual

2021 -

2020 -

Successes

This year we were able to introduce a new program, the PURSUIT™ volunteer training course. This course is the result of a year of collaboration with OSU-Cascades and Effectual, providing sex trafficking recognition training that enables volunteers with open source intelligence (OSINT) skills to confront sex trafficking of minors in their own back yards. Because we will never rest in the fight against sex trafficking, we chose to expand our offensive efforts this year. We are now deeply invested in fighting trafficking in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. While we have worked in these areas in the past, we are now routinely focused on the I35 corridor and providing leads to federal, state, and local law enforcement. This increased focus also resulted in our dramatically increased support to law enforcement sting operations.

Funders

Guardian Group receives support from a variety of foundations, nonprofits and for profits. These funds and in-kind support are used primarily to fund our offense and defense programs, and advertise these capabilities across the United States. M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust Google JP’s Peace Love and Happiness Foundation Serving USA Healy Foundation Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund Les Schwab Oregon Community Foundation St. Charles Health System Bolton Foundation Nickless Family Charitable Foundation

Challenges

In 2021 Guardian Group observed another increase in women and minors being trafficked online, following a dramatic increase in 2020. We decided to begin a new program utilizing trained volunteer analysts in order to meet the increase in the crime of sex trafficking. We now must complete the funding of this new program in order to achieve its full implementation.

Partnerships

Guardian Groups partnerships were fundamental in the stand up of our volunteer program. 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.