Case study
La Strada International
An Amsterdam-based stichting coordinating European NGOs against human trafficking — and a live demonstration of tracing NGO funding when an organization files no US 990. It is invisible to the US spine; its money picture is assembled here from the EU Financial Transparency System, the UK Charity Commission register, and its own published annual report.
Also appears as: La Strada International · The International La Strada Association · La Strada International LSI
The reported funder list, verified
Seed hypothesis (user research, 2024): seven funders. Verified against the 2024 annual report (p.25 donors statement, p.10 Ukraine funding) and EU FTS primary records.
| Reported | In the report as | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| European Commission | European Commission | confirmed | Independently confirmed by EU FTS commitments JAG.1060566 (POSTCARE 2.0, 2022) and JAG.1413460 (INFO-RIGHTS, 2024) — DG EMPL, ESF+/EaSI budget line 07 02 04 00. |
| COFRA | COFRA | confirmed | Also named on p.10 as a funder of the Ukraine work. |
| OAK Foundation | OAK | confirmed · spelling differs | Report says "OAK" (pp.10, 25). The identically-named UK charity THE OAK FOUNDATION (1092967) is a Waltham Forest disability-services charity with no connection — deliberately not linked (never merge on name alone). |
| WP Fund | WP fund | confirmed · spelling differs | Report spells it "WP fund" (pp.10, 25). |
| Porticus | Porticus | confirmed | Named for the non-punishment programme (p.25). |
| the Freedom Fund | Freedom Fund | confirmed | Named for strategic litigation (p.25). Resolved to the US 501(c)(3) (single exact name match); its UK arm is linked via the Schedule R-evidenced Freedom Fund family. |
| Chooselove | Chooselove | confirmed | Report spells it "Chooselove"; resolved to UK charity CHOOSE LOVE (1177927) by exact squashed-name match. |
| (not on the reported list) | Comcrim, HEUNI | additions from the report | Named on p.25 (HEUNI — research; Comcrim — scientific research project) but absent from the seed list. |
European Commission money, on the record
EU FTS commitment rows naming La Strada as beneficiary — amounts as published, EUR, never converted.
| Year | Project | LC reference | Beneficiary share | Consortium commitment | Budget line |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | SAFE AND ADEQUATE RETURN, FAIR TREATMENT AND EARLY IDENTIFICATION OF VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKINHOME · Action Grant · 2017-01-01 → 2018-12-31 | SI2.337007 | €0 | €434,396 | 18 03 01 02 — Supporting legal migration to the Union and pr |
| 2016 | TRAFFICKING ALONG MIGRATION ROUTES: IDENTIFICATION AND INTEGRATION OF VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKIHOME · Action Grant · 2017-01-01 → 2018-12-31 | SI2.336896 | €0 | €490,426 | 18 03 01 02 — Supporting legal migration to the Union and pr |
| 2017 | STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS TO DEVELOP SOCIAL AGENDA FOR CHANGE: RECOGNIZE, RESPECT AND REALIZEX · Action Grant · 2018-01-01 → 2020-12-31 | SCR.LCM.392541.01 | €0 | €258,950 | 22 02 04 01 — Multi-country programmes, regional integration |
| 2017 | 760262 - JUSTICE AT LAST - JUSTICE AT LAST - EUROPEAN ACTION FOR COMPENSATIONJUST · Action Grant · 2017-10-01 → 2019-11-30 | JAG.120083 | €182,592 | €346,273 | 33 03 01 — Supporting and promoting judicial training and |
| 2020 | 101005564 - HIDDENATWORK - HIDDEN AT WORK: LABOUR AND SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND HARASSMENT OJUST · Action Grant · 2021-01-01 → 2022-12-31 | JAG.684410 | €53,044 | €292,864 | 33 02 01 — Ensuring the protection of rights and empoweri |
| 2020 | POSTCARE. POSTING OF THIRD COUNTRY NATIONALS IN CARE SERVICES - THE CURRENT STATE OF PLAY EMPL · Action Grant · 2021-03-01 → 2022-08-31 | EMP.VS/2020/0539 | €0 | €319,001 | 04 03 02 01 — Progress — Supporting the development, impleme |
| 2022 | 101059353 - POSTCARE 2.0 - POSTCARE 2.0: INFORMING THE CARE SERVICES WORKERS ON POSTING RUEMPL · Action Grant · 2022-09-01 → 2024-02-29 | JAG.1060566 | €34,719 | €224,225 | 07 02 04 00 — ESF+ — Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) |
| 2024 | 101139969 - INFO-RIGHTS - MAKING INFORMATION THE BASIS FOR STRENGTHENED AND INCREASED WORKEMPL · Action Grant · 2024-02-01 → 2026-01-31 | JAG.1413460 | €29,840 | €469,579 | 07 02 04 00 — ESF+ — Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) |
Declared funders (from the annual report)
Listed by La Strada itself — declared facts with document-and-page provenance. Amounts are not disclosed in the report, so none are shown.
- Freedom FundUS
strategic litigation
page 25 · amount not disclosed
- ComcrimZZ
scientific research project
page 25 · amount not disclosed
- WP fundZZ
page 25 · amount not disclosed
- OAKZZ
page 25 · amount not disclosed
- COFRAZZ
page 25 · amount not disclosed
- PorticusZZ
non-punishment
page 25 · amount not disclosed
- European CommissionZZ
Postcare II and Info Rights
page 25 · amount not disclosed
- ChooseloveZZ
Ukraine programme
page 25 · amount not disclosed
- HEUNIZZ
research
page 25 · amount not disclosed
The cross-border bridge
Funder families connect this EU case to the US 990 spine — confirmed from explicit filing evidence, never name similarity.
Freedom Fund family
- The Freedom Fund UK GB · affiliate
↳ Freedom Fund (US) 990 Schedule R lists "THE FREEDOM FUND UK" as a related tax-exempt organization (/Return/ReturnData/IRS990ScheduleR/IdRelatedTaxExemptOrgGrp[1])
- Freedom Fund US · EIN 300805768 (US 990 filer) · us arm
↳ Freedom Fund (US) 990 Schedule R lists "THE FREEDOM FUND UK" as a related tax-exempt organization (/Return/ReturnData/IRS990ScheduleR/IdRelatedTaxExemptOrgGrp[1])
Network
Open full explorer →Two hops around La Strada: EU institutions and declared funders in, and the family bridge to the US 990 spine.
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Primary sources
- EU FTS dataset 2017 (XLSX)archived 2026-08-06 · ec.europa.eu
- EU FTS dataset 2016 (XLSX)archived 2026-08-06 · ec.europa.eu
- EU FTS dataset 2022 (XLSX)archived 2026-08-06 · ec.europa.eu
- La Strada International — Annual Report 2024 (PDF)archived 2026-08-06 · documentation.lastradainternational.org
- eu_tr documentarchived 2026-08-06 · transparency-register.europa.eu
- EU FTS dataset 2024 (XLSX)archived 2026-08-06 · ec.europa.eu
- EU FTS dataset 2020 (XLSX)archived 2026-08-06 · ec.europa.eu
Report mentions of known orgs: La Strada International (p.2) · THE SOURCE (p.2) · SPACE (p.3) · La Strada International (p.3) · GENERAL ASSEMBLY (p.3) · SHARING (p.4) · WE BELIEVE (p.4) · ACCESS (p.4) · ENGAGE (p.4) · GREATER IMPACT (p.4) · HAVE (p.4) · BUILD (p.4) · La Strada International (p.4) · MIST (p.4) · LEAD (p.5) · La Strada International (p.5) · HAVE (p.5) · ON THE GROUND (p.6) · HAVE (p.6) · SCOPE (p.6) · La Strada International (p.6) · HAVE (p.7) · ACCESS (p.7) · SPACE (p.7) · WELL (p.7) · SEEKERS (p.7) · COMPELLED (p.7) · ACCESS (p.8) · La Strada International (p.9) · REACH (p.9) · LINKS (p.9) · WELL (p.9) · MONITOR (p.9) · MARCH (p.10) · FUND (p.10) · WP fund (p.10) · COFRA (p.10) · WELL (p.11) · HAVE (p.11) · La Strada International (p.12) · SPACE (p.12) · BUILD (p.12) · NGO NETWORK (p.13) · La Strada International (p.13) · WELL (p.13) · MONITOR (p.13) · SPACE (p.14) · HAVE (p.14) · PROJECT (p.14) · ACCESS (p.14) · La Strada International (p.14) · COMPELLED (p.14) · HAVE (p.15) · BETTER (p.15) · PUSH (p.15) · La Strada International (p.15) · FORESEES (p.16) · FOCUS (p.16) · BUILD (p.16) · FOCUS (p.16) · HEUNI (p.16) · HAVE (p.16) · La Strada International (p.16) · PROJECT (p.16) · LINK (p.16) · MARCH (p.16) · Comcrim (p.17) · PROJECT (p.17) · HEUNI (p.17) · MARCH (p.18) · La Strada International (p.18) · FOCUS (p.18) · SPACE (p.18) · FOCUS (p.18) · HAVE (p.18) · MARCH (p.19) · La Strada International (p.20) · INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION (p.20) · TEAM (p.20) · GLOBAL ALLIANCE (p.20) · ACCESS (p.21) · ENGAGE (p.21) · La Strada International (p.22) · BUILD (p.22) · EXTEND (p.22) · ACCESS (p.22) · GROW (p.22) · GENERAL ASSEMBLY (p.23) · LINKS (p.23) · ACCESS (p.23) · La Strada International (p.23) · LINK (p.23) · WELL (p.23) · PROJECT (p.23) · SPACE (p.23) · ENGAGE (p.24) · SELF (p.24) · HAVE (p.24) · DAILY WORK (p.24) · WELL (p.24) · Comcrim (p.25) · FUND (p.25) · PROJECT (p.25) · HEUNI (p.25) · Chooselove (p.25) · WP fund (p.25) · COFRA (p.25) · Porticus (p.25) · European Commission (p.25) · Freedom Fund (p.25) · La Strada International (p.25)