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2025 Gratitude Report
A Letter from Beck,
Dear Restore Community,
Last year, I wrote to you with gratitude for Restore’s 15-year journey and excitement for what lay ahead. That gratitude still holds.
In 2025, 385 survivors and those at risk found support through Restore. Each one is taking courageous steps toward lasting freedom. In fact, 100% of those who enrolled 12 months ago remain free from trafficking today. Every single one. We’re proud to share this progress with you and grateful for your continued partnership in this work.
And yet, across our city, we’ve seen growing challenges in housing, mental health, and financial stability. These pressures increase both the risk of trafficking and the demand for our services. Now more than ever, survivors are reaching out for support. In moments like this, we’re reminded just how much partnership and resolve it takes to keep moving forward.
In this report, you’ll see how your partnership made a difference this year. You’ll also see the rising need: for every survivor we supported, two more are waiting for the same help. Meeting this moment will require us to scale the solutions we know make freedom real: safe housing, trauma-informed care, and real economic opportunity.
Restore’s story has always been one of transformation: of survivors reclaiming their lives, and of people showing up again and again to make that possible. That same spirit gives me confidence for the future. Let’s keep building what comes next.
With continued gratitude,
Beck Sullivan
Chief Executive Officer, Restore NYC
100%
of survivors who entered our programs a year ago remain free from trafficking today.
Every single one.
100%
of survivors who entered our programs a year ago remain free from trafficking today.
Every single one.
What does 100% mean?
It means that every survivor who enrolled in Restore’s programs 12 months ago is still free from trafficking today. Not 95%. Not “most of them.” Every single one.
Why does this matter?
The vulnerabilities that made someone susceptible to human trafficking in the first place don’t disappear when they escape.
- Without stable housing, survivors risk homelessness, and traffickers know that.
- Without financial security, survivors face impossible choices between safety and survival.
- Without mental health support, trauma can make it hard to trust, plan, or hope.
- Without a community that doesn’t give up, isolation can become a road back to exploitation.
This year, our outcomes show what’s possible when survivors have consistent access to resources. The more support we can provide, the more survivors can thrive and build the futures they envision.
That’s what your partnership makes possible.
2025 by the numbers.
What does 100% of survivors remaining free look like?
%
Secured Safe Housing
%
Living Independently
%
Retained Employment
%
Improved Mental Health
%
Growth in Sense of Safety
%
Income Growth
2025 by the numbers.
What does 100% of survivors remaining free look like?
- Secured Safe Housing 91%
- Living Independently 77%
- Retained Employment 78%
- Growth in Sense of Safety 58%
- Improved Mental Health 70%
*Outcomes reflect 12-month progress among survivors enrolled in core services.
385
survivors + those at risk received services.
188
survivors served in our core programs
$760K +
given in emergency cash assistance
424%
Income Growth
The Freedom Index
Through our Freedom Index, we measure progress in the areas that matter most, including housing stability, job security, and mental well-being. By the end of their first year in 2025, 79% of survivors in our programs showed meaningful progress towards freedom.
Survivor Progress Over Time: 2025 Outcomes
We track outcomes through 24 months to ensure our model delivers lasting independence, not just short-term support.
Our Solutions
Survivors will always drive our approach – that’s why we leverage trauma-informed, survivor-centered, and impact-driven service delivery in the areas that survivors share are essential to sustained independence.
Our
Solutions
Survivors will always drive our approach – that’s why we leverage trauma-informed, survivor-centered, and impact-driven service delivery in the areas that survivors share are essential to sustained independence.
Client Services
We facilitate trauma-informed clinical services and holistic case management to help survivors meet their most urgent needs and begin a path to healing.
Housing
We operate within a housing-first framework, where we view safe shelter as a fundamental right for all people. We find the housing support survivors need at critical moments in their lives, from one night to 24 months.
Economic Empowerment
Our economic empowerment programming prepares survivors with the skills they need to find and maintain a job, all within the safety of a trauma-informed model.
Client Services
We facilitate trauma-informed clinical services and holistic case management to help survivors meet their most urgent needs and begin a path to healing.
Housing
We operate within a housing-first framework, where we view safe shelter as a fundamental right for all people. We find the housing support survivors need at critical moments in their lives, from one night to 24 months.
Economic Empowerment
Our economic empowerment programming prepares survivors with the skills they need to find and maintain a job, all within the safety of a trauma-informed model.
Client Services
We facilitate trauma-informed clinical services and holistic case management to help survivors meet their most urgent needs and begin a path to healing.
Housing
We operate within a housing-first framework, where we view safe shelter as a fundamental right for all people. We find the housing support survivors need at critical moments in their lives, from one night to 24 months.
Economic Empowerment
Our economic empowerment programming prepares survivors with the skills they need to find and maintain a job, all within the safety of a trauma-informed model.
Meet Maya
“I never thought other people would believe in my dreams.
Now I believe in them too.”
When Maya accepted a housekeeping job in New York, she thought it would help her support her family back home. But when she arrived, her passport was taken, and she was forced into prostitution under threats of deportation. For months, she lived in fear, unsure if anyone would help her.
The night she escaped, a friend connected her to Restore. When she called, someone picked up immediately and arranged safe housing that same evening. Maya arrived with only a small bag and finally slept through the night. Within a week, she met her case manager, who helped her settle in and access emergency cash assistance for groceries and transportation.
Through counseling, Maya began to process what she had endured and rebuild confidence in her own strength. For a long time, she didn’t think she had a future to dream about, but that began to change. With support from Restore’s job-readiness program, she was hired by one of our business partners and later promoted to full-time.
Now living independently, Maya is preparing to take her next step: enrolling in school and pursuing the career she’s always wanted.
*Identifying information has been changed to protect the survivor. “Maya” is one of 188 survivors we served in our core programs in FY 2025 thanks to your support.
Yet, the problem still remains.
In New York City, we are observing crises around housing and mental health. The resulting conditions represent the exact vulnerabilities targeted by traffickers.
Today, an estimated 26,000 people are in trafficking situations in NYC, up from 10,000 ten years ago.
This year, for every survivor we served, two more were added to our waitlist or referred elsewhere, even though their needs aligned with Restore’s specialized post trafficking care.
72% of the survivors who reached out for housing, counseling, or job support couldn’t enter our programs. The need for support outpaced our resources.
Today, an estimated 26,000 people are in trafficking situations in NYC, up from 10,000 ten years ago.
This year, for every survivor we served, two more were added to our waitlist or referred elsewhere, even though their needs aligned with Restore’s specialized post trafficking care.
72% of the survivors who reached out for housing, counseling, or job support couldn’t enter our programs. The need for support outpaced our resources.
In 2026, we will…
1. Reach 400 survivors.
Through best-in-class housing, clinical care, and job readiness and career development programs.
3. Scale our Housing Program.
Expanding safe housing capacity to meet growing demand.
2. Use data + survivor insights.
To shape smarter, survivor-informed solutions.
4. Build strong community partnerships.
With corporations, businesses, churches, and civic groups to surround survivors with lasting support.
We can’t do it alone.
Freedom happens in community. We are grateful to our partnerships with churches, volunteers, businesses, and supporters who ensure survivors have the resources they need.
Thank you for standing with survivors in 2025!
Our corporate partners donated over 150 volunteer hours in June to help us plant the Freedom Garden and raise awareness about trafficking in NYC.
Team #RunToRestore 2025 raised over 150K to run for freedom in the 2025 TCS NYC Marathon.
We partnered with over 30 organizations across the city to ensure survivors had the resources they needed.
A total of 18,000 supporters came together to move survivors of trafficking closer to lasting freedom.
Financials
Thanks to your partnership, we invested in what survivors need most: safe housing, healing, and pathways to independence. That investment is working. Every dollar given created the outcomes you’ve seen throughout this report.
In 2025 we raised:
$4,275,217
In 2025 we invested:
$5,105,155
Net Assets:
Beginning of the year: $3,029,728
End of the year: $2,199,790
*Figures shown are unaudited. Restore’s financials are independently audited annually to ensure transparency and accountability.
Financials
Thanks to your partnership, we invested in what survivors need most: safe housing, healing, and pathways to independence. That investment is working. Every dollar given created the outcomes you’ve seen throughout this report.
In 2025 we raised:
$4,275,217
In 2025 we invested:
$5,105,155
Net Assets:
Beginning of the year: $3,029,728
End of the year: $2,199,790
*Figures shown are unaudited. Restore’s financials are independently audited annually to ensure transparency and accountability.
Financials
Thanks to your partnership, we invested in what survivors need most: safe housing, healing, and pathways to independence. That investment is working. Every dollar given created the outcomes you’ve seen throughout this report.
In 2025 we raised:
$4,275,217
In 2025 we invested:
$5,105,155
Net Assets:
Beginning of the year: $3,029,728
End of the year: $2,199,790
*Figures shown are unaudited. Restore’s financials are independently audited annually to ensure transparency and accountability.
Help us make freedom real for survivors in 2026!
The journey to freedom doesn’t end here.
When the need outpaces our resources, your support makes growth possible.