SCARLET HOPE Parent
We exist to show the hope and love of Jesus with women in the adult entertainment industry.
SCARLET HOPE
EIN: 27-0804557
as of November 2023
as of November 13, 2023
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Scarlet Hope exists to show the hope and love of Jesus to women in the adult entertainment industry. Our goal is to help the women who have been exploited in strip-clubs and prostitution by providing an alternative career path through career training and opportunities. We believe that all women are created by God and are worthy of being treated with dignity and respect, but that the adult entertainment industry strips these women of their dignity and intrinsic worth and leaves the woman shamed, hopeless, and exploited with no way of escape. Even though many women in the industry may make good money, they often sell their dignity, self-respect, and worth for that money. We exist to show these women that God loves them and to help them see that there is hope. Due to the underground nature of sex-trafficking, solid statistics are difficult to find. According to the Polaris Project, there have been over 32,000 sex trafficking cases reported to them in the US since 2007.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Career Development Program
Our Career Development Program is designed to help the ladies who have in some way been exploited through the sex industry to rebuild their lives through classes dealing with trauma and abuse, personal finance, relationships and family, Biblical counseling, therapy, job-skills training, and on-the-job training. Our CDP is a 6-semester, 18-month program that we make available for 5 new ladies every 3 months. Through grants, foundations, our social enterprise (Scarlet's Bakery), and donor development, we are able to pay these ladies by the hour for being in the CDP.
Outreach
We have three particular types of outreach to the women in the sex industry--Street Outreach, Massage Parlor Outreach, and Strip Club Outreach.
STREET OUTREACH involves volunteers from our ministry driving to areas in our city that have been noted by the FBI and LMPD as hot spots for sex trafficking. We drive around in these areas until we find a woman that looks like she is in need of help. Most often these women are being exploited or trafficked, and sometimes they are simply homeless. It is not our role in outreach to distinguish who is being trafficked and who is not. Each time we meet a women, we give them a bottle of water, a bag with basic hygiene and nutritional resources, our contact info, and a rose to reminded them that their Heavenly Father loves them and that they have dignity because they were created in His image. We also ask them if there is anything we can pray with them about and then we pray with them. Often times, the ladies we meet on the streets will contact us soon after our initial meeting and ask for help.
The staff ladies and lady volunteers also do MASSAGE PARLOR and STRIP CLUB OUTREACH. This begins in the afternoon when ladies and men from all over Louisville come one of our locations to cook a hot meal for the strippers in the clubs and prostitutes in the massage parlors. These meals are then taken into the strip clubs and massage parlors where the women in our ministry serve the strippers and prostitutes a warm home-cooked meal, and begin developing a relationship with them that will show them that "the church ladies" are not there to judge them but to show them that Jesus loves them and that there is hope because of Jesus.
Where we work
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Scarlet Hope and Scarlet's Bakery exist to provide hope and restore dignity to disenfranchised women in Louisville, KY. Our joint mission is to employ, equip, and empower women who've been exploited in the adult entertainment industry. We strive to provide a structured, Christ-centered work environment where each women in our program can grow personally, spiritually, and professionally. Our end goal is to develop female leaders out of the adult entertainment industry who are not just "survivors", but who are "thrivers" who know their intrinsic worth as image-bearers of God and who are able to lead other women out of a life of exploitation. We aim to rescue, redress, rebuild, and re-energize women out of the sex industry.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
We have two main strategies to help us meet our mission to show the hope and love of Jesus to the women in the sex industry: Our Outreach Program and our Discipleship Program.
Our outreach program is a staff-organized, volunteer-driven program that reaches out to strippers and prostitutes with meals and resources to let them see, feel, taste, and smell how much God loves them.
Our Career Development Program is the main component of our Discipleship Program. Our Career Development Program is an 18-month program that pays $10/hr to for the women to sit in classes designed to help these women be able to rebuild their lives from the ground up. One of the main ways that our CDP helps develop business skills in the women we're serving is by giving teaching them baking skills in Scarlet's Bakery, our social enterprise designed to help fund Scarlet Hope, while also accomplishing our goals of developing female leaders out of the sex industry.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
While there are other organizations and resource centers for women who have been abused and exploited, Scarlet Hope is the only non-profit in Kentucky targeting women leaving any area of the adult entertainment industry and/or who have been trafficked. While we aim to raise awareness between the direct link between abusive histories and working in adult entertainment, that only scratches the surface. We believe the population we serve needs a tangible hope--they need to be able to earn a living while growing toward independence. While we provide educational classes and resource referrals for women who walk through our doors (and realize the need for those), our program is heavily focused on career and skills-focused training, primarily through the bakery. We are equipping these women to lead in the workforce to impact this generation and the next in our community. Our staff and volunteers are not only certified where it is required, but are also driven with the heart for our mission.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
We have reached thousands of women in the adult entertainment industry with the hope and love of Jesus. Two years (2015) ago we started Scarlet's Bakery as a social enterprise to engage, employ and empower women coming out of the adult entertainment industry. Since that time, we have employed 23 different women and are currently working on expanding our bakery to a second location so that we can employ more women. Our Career Development Program is expanding every 3 months by more women coming out of the industry. Since it has only been a part of our ministry for the last 2 years, we just celebrated our first 2 graduates at the end of September. Our organization has also expanded to 3 other cities (Los Vegas, Reno, and Cincinnati) and hope to expand internationally in the years to come.
Financials
Financial documents
Download audited financialsRevenue vs. expenses: breakdown
Liquidity in 2022 info
1.37
Months of cash in 2022 info
6
Fringe rate in 2022 info
8%
Funding sources info
Assets & liabilities info
Financial data
SCARLET HOPE
Balance sheetFiscal Year: Jan 01 - Jun 30
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Fiscal Year: Jan 01 - Jun 30
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Business model indicators
Profitability info | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
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Unrestricted surplus (deficit) before depreciation | -$10,616 | $50,965 | -$235,560 | -$14,286 | -$184,477 |
As % of expenses | -1.0% | 3.6% | -23.5% | -1.7% | -37.0% |
Unrestricted surplus (deficit) after depreciation | -$54,965 | $5,039 | -$284,623 | -$52,751 | -$219,984 |
As % of expenses | -4.8% | 0.3% | -27.0% | -6.1% | -41.2% |
Revenue composition info | |||||
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Total revenue (unrestricted & restricted) | $1,123,106 | $1,489,948 | $757,234 | $888,972 | $333,879 |
Total revenue, % change over prior year | 19.3% | 32.7% | -49.2% | 17.4% | -62.4% |
Program services revenue | 30.1% | 28.2% | 12.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
Membership dues | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
Investment income | 0.3% | 0.8% | 0.6% | 0.0% | -0.5% |
Government grants | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
All other grants and contributions | 69.5% | 70.8% | 134.8% | 100.0% | 93.9% |
Other revenue | 0.0% | 0.2% | -47.4% | 0.0% | 6.6% |
Expense composition info | |||||
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Total expenses before depreciation | $1,108,857 | $1,430,763 | $1,003,208 | $827,939 | $498,184 |
Total expenses, % change over prior year | 28.0% | 29.0% | -29.9% | -17.5% | -39.8% |
Personnel | 56.7% | 59.6% | 62.0% | 61.5% | 61.8% |
Professional fees | 1.5% | 1.0% | 1.4% | 1.9% | 1.8% |
Occupancy | 7.6% | 8.8% | 12.5% | 7.0% | 8.3% |
Interest | 0.0% | 1.1% | 1.6% | 1.5% | 1.0% |
Pass-through | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
All other expenses | 34.2% | 29.6% | 22.5% | 28.1% | 27.1% |
Full cost components (estimated) info | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
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Total expenses (after depreciation) | $1,153,206 | $1,476,689 | $1,052,271 | $866,404 | $533,691 |
One month of savings | $92,405 | $119,230 | $83,601 | $68,995 | $41,515 |
Debt principal payment | $18,742 | $0 | $10,511 | $65,904 | $29,471 |
Fixed asset additions | $63,283 | $277,922 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
Total full costs (estimated) | $1,327,636 | $1,873,841 | $1,146,383 | $1,001,303 | $604,677 |
Capital structure indicators
Liquidity info | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
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Months of cash | 4.9 | 3.0 | 5.6 | 6.4 | 6.0 |
Months of cash and investments | 4.9 | 3.0 | 5.6 | 6.4 | 6.0 |
Months of estimated liquid unrestricted net assets | 2.1 | 1.7 | 4.1 | 4.4 | 1.6 |
Balance sheet composition info | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
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Cash | $450,135 | $353,116 | $467,918 | $444,766 | $248,123 |
Investments | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
Receivables | $0 | $0 | $0 | $20,000 | $0 |
Gross land, buildings, equipment (LBE) | $1,019,541 | $1,297,462 | $858,359 | $858,359 | $856,474 |
Accumulated depreciation (as a % of LBE) | 26.0% | 23.9% | 35.1% | 39.6% | 40.8% |
Liabilities (as a % of assets) | 14.4% | 22.2% | 26.8% | 21.3% | 23.5% |
Unrestricted net assets | $950,505 | $955,544 | $670,921 | $618,170 | $400,936 |
Temporarily restricted net assets | $91,586 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Permanently restricted net assets | $0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Total restricted net assets | $91,586 | $99,806 | $89,392 | $167,117 | $187,137 |
Total net assets | $1,042,091 | $1,055,350 | $760,313 | $785,287 | $588,073 |
Key data checks
Key data checks info | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
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Material data errors | No | No | No | No | No |
Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
Documents
Founder and President
Rachelle Starr
Number of employees
Source: IRS Form 990
SCARLET HOPE
Officers, directors, trustees, and key employeesSOURCE: IRS Form 990
Compensation data
There are no highest paid employees recorded for this organization.
SCARLET HOPE
Board of directorsas of 10/10/2023
Board of directors data
Rachelle Starr
Scarlet Hope
Rachelle Starr
Scarlet Hope INC
Michelle Kannaple
Norton Healthcare
Brian Howard
Context Coaching
Anna Bates
National Christian Foundation Kentucky
Michael Hall
NAI Fortis Group
Lori Riggs
Kindred Healthcare
Sherry Fields
Julia Black
TriArrows
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? No -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No