CHILD RECOVERY AGENCY

Funding Disclosure Statement

Silent Integrity Inc., trading as the Child Recovery Agency

Funding Disclosure – How CRA Operates

The Child Recovery Agency operates differently from many larger charities and non-government organisations. We do not receive guaranteed annual funding, government funding, or a fixed amount of pledged financial support each year.

Our work is funded primarily through voluntary donations, individual sponsors, recurring supporters, fundraising initiatives, and occasional contributions from organisations that believe in our mission.

Although some supporters donate regularly, these contributions are not contractually guaranteed or formally pledged for the entire year. This means CRA cannot assume that the same level of funding will continue from one month to the next.

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The Difficulty of Forecasting an Annual Budget

CRA has previously prepared annual operational budgets based on anticipated missions, training requirements, administration, travel, accommodation, equipment, communications, and other essential costs.

However, the funding required to meet these forecasts has rarely been fully achieved. The amount of work requiring our attention consistently exceeds the financial resources available to complete it.

Child trafficking matters, intelligence requirements, recovery opportunities, police support requests, training needs, and emergency situations cannot always be predicted twelve months in advance.

Operational requirements can change from week to week and month to month. A matter that initially requires basic intelligence gathering may quickly develop into a larger operation involving:

• Surveillance and reconnaissance
• Operational travel and transportation
• Vehicles and fuel
• Accommodation and food
• Communications and specialist equipment
• Safe-house and protection arrangements
• Recovery and extraction support
• Repatriation and cross-border logistics
• Police and partner-organisation assistance

Because the number, complexity, urgency, and location of these matters continually change, it is not possible to accurately predict the full cost of our work at the beginning of each year.

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Operating Month to Month

CRA now operates according to the financial resources available at the time. Each month, available funds are reviewed and allocated according to the most urgent operational, training, administrative, and logistical requirements.

Our priorities must continually be adjusted according to:

• The amount of funding currently available
• The urgency and risk level of active matters
• The immediate needs of children and partner organisations
• Operational opportunities that may arise unexpectedly
• Police and frontline training requirements
• Travel, equipment, communications, and logistical costs

When sufficient funding is available, CRA can progress operations, deploy personnel, support intelligence gathering, deliver training, and respond to developing matters.

When funding is limited, operations may need to be reduced, delayed, placed on hold, or completed in stages. This does not mean the work is no longer required. It means that the financial resources needed to continue are not yet available.

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There Is Always More Work Than Funding Allows

The demand for CRA’s services is consistently greater than the funding available to meet that demand.

There are always additional intelligence matters to assess, children requiring assistance, police and partner organisations requesting support, and operational opportunities that could be progressed if sufficient funding were available.

Our team continually adapts its plans and priorities to make the greatest possible use of the funds available. Requirements can change quickly, and decisions must often be made based on immediate operational realities rather than a fixed annual schedule.

For this reason, CRA does not claim that an annual forecast represents the true amount required to complete all potential operations. A forecast can only estimate known costs at a particular point in time. It cannot account for every emergency, deployment, recovery opportunity, or change in operational circumstances.

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The True Cost of Our Work

The financial cost of an operation extends far beyond the time spent in the field. Every mission may require vehicles, fuel, travel, accommodation, food, communications, specialist equipment, intelligence gathering, surveillance, safe-house support, and repatriation arrangements.

These costs do not disappear simply because our operational personnel and trainers volunteer their professional time.

• No operational agent is paid to participate in missions.
• No specialist trainer is paid to deliver CRA-supported training.
• No operational team member receives commercial field-service fees.
• CRA does not add profit margins to its operational work.

The professional skills, experience, and time contributed by our operational personnel would represent a substantial cost if provided commercially. Their volunteer service allows CRA to direct available funding toward the practical expenses required to keep operations and training activities moving.

However, volunteering our time does not make an operation free. The logistical and operational expenses must still be funded before the work can proceed.

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How Donations Are Used

Donations are allocated according to the most urgent needs of the organisation at the time they are received. Depending on current priorities, funding may be directed toward:

• Child recovery and anti-trafficking operations
• Intelligence gathering and operational preparation
• Surveillance, reconnaissance, and mapping
• Travel, vehicles, fuel, and local transportation
• Accommodation and deployment expenses
• Communications and operational technology
• Specialist equipment
• Safe-house and protection requirements
• Recovery, extraction, and repatriation support
• Police and partner-organisation training
• Office, compliance, banking, software, and administrative costs

CRA must maintain a basic administrative and logistical capability in order to remain legally registered, communicate securely, manage operations, maintain equipment, support personnel, and respond when an operational opportunity becomes available.

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Our Funding Position

CRA does not operate from a guaranteed annual pool of money. We can only commit funds that have already been received or are immediately available.

We cannot responsibly spend donations that have not yet been received, and we cannot assume that future donations will arrive at a particular time or in a particular amount.

As a result, our operational capacity is directly connected to the level of support available each month. Increased funding allows more matters to progress. Reduced funding limits how quickly and how extensively we can respond.

This month-to-month funding model is not ideal, but it is the financial reality of an independent, donor-supported organisation operating in complex and changing environments.

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CRA’s Commitment to Transparency

CRA remains committed to ensuring that every donated dollar is managed ethically, responsibly, and in support of our mission to combat child trafficking and exploitation.

Rather than presenting an annual forecast that may never be fully funded, we believe it is more transparent to explain that our work is determined by the funds genuinely available at the time.

We will continue to report the income received, expenditure incurred, operational outcomes achieved, and financial limitations affecting our work.

Our team will continue adapting, prioritising, and doing everything possible with the resources entrusted to us. However, there will always be more work than our current funding allows.

Every donation strengthens our ability to act. It helps move an operation forward, maintain our capability, support our partners, and protect vulnerable children.

We do not ask our supporters to fund a theoretical annual budget. We ask them to help provide the resources required to continue the work in front of us today.