2021-05-17T13:17:02-05:00 2020-09-30 450250958 Eide Bailly LLP 800 Nicollet Mall Ste 1300 Minneapolis MN 554027033 990 2019-10-01 363383933 The Center for Victims of Torture CENT 6124364800 2356 University Ave West Suite 430 St Paul MN 551141860 James Behnke Chief Financial Officer 6124364800 2021-05-12 1 Deb Nelson CPA P01264758 6122536500 2021-05-11 2019 2022-09-23 18:48:47Z Curtis R Goering 2356 University Ave West Suite 430 St Paul MN 551141860 23236854 0 X www.cvt.org X 1985 MN To heal the wounds of torture and to stop torture worldwide. 21 21 183 159 0 0 19736200 21802264 1169312 1422056 62161 12534 0 0 20967673 23236854 451147 646142 0 0 14839878 16641352 600293 501907 1465211 5993652 5292547 21884970 23081948 -917297 154906 6308165 8189002 2547577 4180130 3760588 4008872 X The Center for Victims of Torture works to heal the wounds of torture on individuals, their families and their communities and to stop torture worldwide. 0 1 11886733 646142 10933 International ServicesCVT's international projects utilize group counseling/therapy, social services, and physical therapy. In Ethiopia, CVT works in refugee camps near Shire in the country's north, and in Gambella in the west. In Jordan, CVT cares for urban refugees in Amman. CVT has centers in Kenya in Nairobi as well as in two refugee camps: Dadaab and Kakuma. In Uganda, CVT has a longstanding center in Gulu where survivors of the Lord's Resistance Army receive care. CVT's program in the Bidi Bidi refugee settlement ended in August 2020 and a new program in a refugee settlement in the country's southwest began in September 2020. In the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, CVT builds the capacity of local service providers to treat Iraqi survivors of torture, war trauma, and sexual and gender-based violence.In addition, International Services Partners in Trauma Healing (PATH) Program builds the capacity of torture survivor centers in the Philippines, Cambodia, Liberia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Turkey (two partners), Kurdish Region of Iraq (two partners), and Lebanon. 3090892 0 1363289 Client ServicesResponding to the lasting physical and psychological damage done by torture, CVT's Client Services program annually touches the lives of nearly 1,025 torture survivors and family members. The program offers services in Minnesota in St. Paul and St. Cloud, as well as in the greater Atlanta area, Georgia. While each service program is adapted to meet the needs of the particular community and setting, the core intervention at all domestic sites is psychotherapy and case management to connect survivors with resources available in the community. 1491514 32531 Capacity DevelopmentCVT training operations consist of three capacity-building projects: The National Capacity Building (NCB) project organizes technical assistance for the US-based network of 42 torture survivor centers and programs in 24 states, and other refugee and immigrant service organizations. NCB provides direct technical training, consultations and other learning resources to strengthen the delivery of integrated, sustainable care for survivors across the United States, including: measured-impact webinars; on-site and remote consultations; eLearning; and the HealTorture.org web site, which averages 4,500 web hits per month.The New Tactics in Human Rights program promotes enhanced strategic and tactical planning and action among the human rights community. The newtactics.org website features a database of 250 tactics in English and 230 in Arabic and reaches over 255,000 users annually from 220 countries. New Tactics trainings have been held in more than 25 countries, with resources translated into 26 languages.IDREAM is an international capacity development project that works with human rights defenders around the world who have been forced into exile due to their human rights advocacy work. IDREAM supports exiled human rights defender through providing training, mentoring, and other capacity development services in these three areas: mental health resilience; effective advocacy; and integrated security. In Fiscal Year 2020, IDREAM identified and welcomed to the project its first Cohort of 10 human rights defenders after an extensive application, interview, and vetting process. 1159060 15303 Public Policy/EducationPolicy advocacy centers around three primary areas: maintaining and where feasible increasing both U.S. and other governments' funding for torture survivor rehabilitation programs in the U.S. and abroad; preserving access to asylum and refugee resettlement for survivors of torture seeking protection in the United States; and ensuring humane detention, interrogation, and prisoner treatment policies in U.S. counterterrorism operations.CVT's work on U.S. appropriations to torture survivor rehabilitation work results in funding of $37 million annually: $17 million for domestic torture survivor programs through the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement; $12 million to programs worldwide through the Victims of Torture Fund at U.S. Agency for International Development; and $8 million in funds for torture survivor programs worldwide through a State Department contribution to the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture. ResearchMonitoring, evaluation, and research are focus areas for CVT. In direct services programs, CVT measures significant reductions in clients' mental health symptoms and equally significant improvements in adaptive social functioning their ability to recover from extreme psychological and physical traumas and to function independently in the world. Research staff provide training and support for CVT's domestic and international services. In capacity development work CVT measures changes in knowledge, skills and organizational development in clinicians and human rights defenders working with our strategic partners around the world. 1159060 15303 17628199 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 X 45 0 1 183 1 0 1 JO ET KE UG IZ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 21 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 AL AR CA CT FL GA IL IN KS KY LA MD MA MI MN NC OR PA RI SC TN UT VA WI WV AK ME MS ND OK X X Mary Kinder 6124364878 2356 University Ave West Suite 430 St Paul MN 551141860 Curtis Goering Executive Director 45.00 X 215459 0 49281 Ruth Barrett Rendler Deputy Director 45.00 X 135471 0 52636 Fawn Bernhardt-Novell Director of Development 45.00 X 129436 0 52021 Pete Dross Director of External Relations 45.00 X 153082 0 25178 Andrea Northwood Director of Client service 45.00 X 116459 0 34371 Neal Porter Director of Int'l Service 45.00 X 119706 0 25624 James Behnke from Sep 2019 Chief Financial Officer 45.00 X 44011 0 10169 Carleen Rhodes Chair 5.00 X X 0 0 0 Richard Senese Past Chair 5.00 X X 0 0 0 Charles Henry Vice Chair 5.00 X X 0 0 0 Connie Magnuson Treasurer 5.00 X X 0 0 0 Mary Tjosvold Board Member 5.00 X 0 0 0 Valerie Spencer Board Member 5.00 X 0 0 0 Eric Schwartz Board Member 5.00 X 0 0 0 Shawn Roberts Board Member 5.00 X 0 0 0 Venetia Kudrle Board Member (partial year) 5.00 X 0 0 0 Fernando Reati Board Member 5.00 X 0 0 0 Gerald LeMelle Board Member 5.00 X 0 0 0 Frank Kendall Board Member 5.00 X 0 0 0 Mark Jacobson Board Member 5.00 X 0 0 0 Robert Flynn Board Member 5.00 X 0 0 0 Nancy Feldman Board Member 5.00 X 0 0 0 Karen Erickson Board Member 5.00 X 0 0 0 Leonce Bylmana Board Member 5.00 X 0 0 0 Julie Brunner Board Member 5.00 X 0 0 0 Samila Behal Board Member 5.00 X 0 0 0 Kadra Abdi Board Member 5.00 X 0 0 0 Valeriana Moeller Board Member 5.00 X 0 0 0 Jennifer Reedstrom Bishop Board Member (partial year) 5.00 X 0 0 0 Surita Sandosham Board Member 5.00 X 0 0 0 913624 0 249280 13 0 1 0 Integrated Direct Marketing 1250 Connecticut Ave NW 200 Washington DC 20036 Fundraising Consulting 144000 Clifton Larson Allen LLP PO Box 776376 Chicago IL 606776376 Finance Consultants 108620 Eide Bailly LLP 800 Nicollet Mall STE 1300 Minneapolis MN 55402 Audit and Tax Services 104500 3 15156750 6645514 89549 21802264 Insurance Reimbursement 624100 1304375 1304375 Speaking Fees 624100 82977 82977 34704 34704 1422056 9812 9812 2722 0 2722 2722 2722 23236854 1422056 0 12534 646142 646142 433010 8303 358281 66426 12919510 10391874 2058504 469132 379550 324921 46904 7725 2315056 1827884 398420 88752 594226 464838 105984 23404 38487 38487 162937 87675 75262 5326 5326 501907 501907 19092 19092 976116 867230 108886 843493 761385 34753 47355 1037777 836189 171874 29714 555215 511012 16138 28065 155022 84087 30885 40050 142013 142013 Fees 645570 91857 499943 53770 Client Assistance 543881 542572 1284 25 Printing Services 167618 138417 29201 23081948 17628199 3988538 1465211 X 269516 139786 0 129730 660729 2156769 1616110 1550198 887910 1037171 397931 392397 3631987 2361726 1145027 1270261 207751 216326 1341991 1512514 50716 53366 6308165 8189002 733001 1053861 909006 1524206 905570 1602063 2547577 4180130 X 1462235 1097873 2298353 2910999 3760588 4008872 6308165 8189002 154906 93378 0 X 0 1 X 1 1 1 X 4474047 4552404 4887908 19736200 21802264 55452823 4474047 4552404 4887908 19736200 21802264 55452823 55452823 7314 117846 112038 61579 9812 308589 55761412 40541366 0.99450 0.91580 X Form 990, Part II - Short Year: CVT changed their year-end from December 31 to September 30. 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Distributions and earnings on endowment funds are available for the purposes specified by the donors, or in certain cases, for the unrestricted use of CVT. The permanently restricted net assets balances, classified by restriction on the use of earnings, are as follows at September 30, 2020: $1,535,000 is a fund for innovation; $25,000 is for general use; and $332,653 is for client services. Part X, Line 2: CVT believes that it has appropriate support for any tax positions taken affecting its annual filing requirements, and as such, does not have any uncertain tax positions that are material to the financial statements. CVT would recognize future accrued interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits and liabilities in income tax expense if such interest and penalties are incurred. 1 Europe (Including Iceland & Greenland) - Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belgium 3 3 Program services and grants to recipients located in the region. Direct mental health counseling and physiotherapy services, training of local clinicians and subgrants. 225161 Middle East and North Africa 5 75 Program services and grants to recipients located in the region. Direct mental health counseling and physiotherapy services, training of local clinicians, and subgrants. 3107859 North America 1 1 Program services. Clinical supervision of other mental health clinicians. 96188 Sub-Saharan Africa - Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, 9 271 Program services. Direct mental health counseling and physiotherapy services, training of local clinicians and subgrants. 4763952 Sub-Saharan Africa - Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, 1 1 Program services. Director of Research position. 143827 19 351 0 0 19 351 8336987 0 8336987 Sub-Saharan Africa Capacity Building 50949 Wire East Asia and the Pacific Capacity Building 50909 Wire Middle East and North Africa Capacity Building 175855 Wire Middle East and North Africa Capacity Building 26000 Wire Middle East and North Africa Capacity Building 94157 Wire Middle East and North Africa Capacity Building 52083 Wire Middle East and North Africa Capacity Building 59906 Wire Europe Capacity Building 58784 Wire Middle East and North Africa Capacity Building 77500 Wire 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Part I, Line 2: All subgrants entered into by CVT are monitored over the course of the agreement. Subgrants of a short duration required the subgrantee to submit a program narrative and financial report upon contract completion. Longer term subgrants required narrative and financial reporting on a more frequent basis. Over the course of the subgrant CVT works with subgrantees to ensure that program goals are being met and problems resolved. CVT also works with subgrantees to ensure compliance with donor requirements. Part I, line 3: The organization's accounting system separately tracks expenditures made from headquarters and those made from field offices. The field accounts are kept on a modified accrual basis. 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Form 990, Part III, line 3 Due to the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, CVT pivoted our services to heal survivors of torture in all organizational areas. This meant moving to telehealth therapeutic services domestically and transitioning international clients into smaller group configurations to facilitate social distancing prior to implementing online and telephone services where possible. Capacity building projects provided online technical assistance and training while policy advocacy teams focused on issue intersections associated with COVID-19 on appropriations, refugee and asylum policy, and national security and human rights. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 1 The Executive Committee shall consist of the Chair of the board, Vice Chair, Past Chair, Treasurer, and up to two (2) additional members, to be designated annually by the Board of Directors. The Executive Committee shall act only in the intervals between meetings of the board and shall at all times be subject to the control and direction of the board. The Board of Directors may delegate to such committee any of the powers and authority of the board, except as otherwise prohibited by the bylaws, the articles of incorporation, or the laws of the State of Minnesota. Fifty percent of the Executive Committee shall constitute a quorum of the transaction of any business. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11b The Finance Committee reviews and approves the 990 before it goes to the board prior to filing. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12c All officers, directors, and key employees are required to fill out a conflict of interest form annually. The forms are reviewed by the Board Chair. Any person with a conflict is restricted from discussing or voting on related matters. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 15 The salaries of the Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer are reviewed and approved by the Board of Directors, or the Executive Committee on behalf of the Board, based on comparability data. This process took place in 2018. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 The audited financial statements and Form 990 are available on the Organization's website. Other documents are made available upon request.