Fiscal Sponsorship at You Are More Than Inc.

The Fiscal Sponsorship Program at YAMT supports survivor-led and sex-worker-led community projects that uplift and empower those involved in the commercial sex industry through direct service provision, mutual aid, flexible funding, and systems change work.

Program Benefits:

  • This program reduces barriers for smaller-stage survivor-led and sex worker-led projects and community groups to access grant opportunities and funds they otherwise couldn't access because they lack 501 (c) (3) status.

  • YAMT provides internal resources for all sponsees, including

    • funder introductions

    • ecosystem expansion

    • Capacity building support

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Currently, we provide Model C.

    • YAMT provides compliance for contributions ONLY.

    • The sponsored project maintains its own HR, legal, compliance, insurance, and finance staff.

    • Sponsee retains relationships with all individual patrons, funders, and partners. Sponsee and Sponsor will work together to report to funders.

  • You Are More Than charges an 8% fee on all donations and grants received on behalf of the project.

    • Is the project well aligned with You Are More Than’s mission, vision, and values?

    • Does the project focus on supporting our primary populations of human trafficking survivors and sex workers?

    • Does the project have significant liability or risk?

    • Will YAMT work well with your project to achieve the project’s mission and goals?

    • Projects engaging in campaign work to either support or oppose a candidate for office, partisan political activity, or projects whose primary activity is lobbying.

    • Projects that lobby in or seek to change political systems in foreign countries

    • Projects engaging in religious/spiritual practices

    • Projects with employees in countries outside of the US or needing to pay non-USA based vendors

    • Projects that are not related to survivors or sex workers.

  • In most cases, yes, if it is an allowable 501(c)(3) activity, not in support of a political candidate, and we are notified of your intention to engage in the activity PRIOR to carrying it out and it is in alignment with our mission and values. 

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Current Projects

At The Center

At The Center builds power with criminalized survivors of gender-based violence and sex workers to dismantle the sexual abuse-to-prison pipeline and disrupt intergenerational cycles of violence. Through leadership development, embodied practice, creative expression, and cultural change, we advance sex worker- and survivor-led visions of safety, healing, and justice.

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