LGBTQ youth crisis support and suicide-prevention nonprofit
The Trevor Project
Industry Mental Health
A nonprofit providing 24/7 phone, text, and chat crisis support for LGBTQ young people, plus education and advocacy. The Trevor Project remains a high-value specialized resource, but it is capped below A because its crisis-service terms reserve authority to alert law enforcement, state authorities, or emergency services when communications indicate imminent risk of death or serious injury.
Why this matters: This is a high-value resource because generic crisis systems often miss the specific family, identity, safety, and institutional risks facing LGBTQ youth, but it should not be represented as a no-active-rescue line.
Letter grade B Qualified High confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1
* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.
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Evaluation Overview
B - Qualified
The score turns mainly on Extraction, with the largest penalty coming from Coercive Violence.
Strengths
- Extraction8/10
- Ownership7/10
- Governance7/10
Penalties
- Coercive Violence-2
- Identity Capture-1
- Surveillance Capture-1
Evidence state
- ConfidenceHigh confidence (AI)
- ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
- Linked claims16
- Direct axis claims16
- Coverage16/16
Scoring Axes
| Axis | Score | Why this score |
|---|---|---|
Ownership
?
Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control
at 10.
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7 / 10 |
The Trevor Project's public record identifies whether the resource is nonprofit, federal, peer-run, culturally specific, or otherwise structured outside ordinary commercial lead generation. Linked evidence
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Governance
?
Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic
stakeholder control at 10.
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7 / 10 |
The Trevor Project's linked public materials show the decision structure and accountability context behind the public-facing help resource. Linked evidence
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Extraction
?
Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured
extraction judgment.
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8 / 10 |
The Trevor Project's reviewed model determines whether help is delivered as free public infrastructure, nonprofit service, federal portal, paid referral, or commercial capture of vulnerable users. Linked evidence
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Labor Sovereignty
?
Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at
7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence
shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling,
retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of
worker voice, or extreme turnover.
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5 / 7 |
The Trevor Project's public record gives limited direct evidence about whether advocates, volunteers, peers, or staff provide help through a mission-oriented service rather than a purely extractive labor model. Linked evidence
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Solidarity with the
Unemployed
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Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment,
and non-competes.
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7 / 7 |
The Trevor Project's resource helps people with crisis, abuse, legal, treatment, benefits, food, disaster, digital access, health-cost, or other practical needs that often fall outside normal paid consumer markets. Linked evidence
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Loss-Bearing Fidelity
?
Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and
public obligations.
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7 / 7 |
The Trevor Project's service absorbs navigation, search, information, referral, advocacy, emotional-support, or application burdens that would otherwise be pushed onto people in distress. Linked evidence
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Market Conduct
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Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
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5 / 5 |
The Trevor Project operates in an area where commercial substitutes often monetize desperation, confusion, lead generation, recurring fees, or informational asymmetry. Linked evidence
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Product Integrity
?
Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
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5 / 5 |
The Trevor Project's core usefulness depends on accessible information, trained support, current referrals, confidentiality, eligibility clarity, and avoiding exploitative handoffs. Linked evidence
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Scale Integrity
?
Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
|
4 / 5 |
The Trevor Project's scale affects whether the resource remains accessible, noncommercial, culturally competent, and accountable as public need increases. Linked evidence
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Penalties
| Penalty | Applied | Why this penalty |
|---|---|---|
Coercive Violence
?
Direct or institutionally enabled killing, torture, detention abuse,
armed repression, forced displacement, violent domination, or
nonconsensual crisis-line emergency escalation that exposes callers to
confinement or force. Range: -30 to 0.
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-2 |
The Trevor Project warrants a light Coercive Violence penalty because its crisis-service terms reserve authority to alert law enforcement, state authorities, or emergency services when communications indicate imminent risk of death or serious injury. Linked evidence
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Identity Capture
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Customer pressure, employee pressure, and pervasive identity saturation.
Range: -3 to 0.
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-1 |
The Trevor Project's public record makes Identity Capture relevant through its crisis practices, privacy posture, public-service claims, free access, legal-rights work, or referral architecture. Linked evidence
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Surveillance Capture
?
Invasive surveillance, unreasonably non-optional tracking, facial
recognition, biometric identification, or AI behavior scanning of
customers, workers, bystanders, or the public. Range: -5 to 0.
|
-1 |
The Trevor Project's public record makes Surveillance Capture relevant through its crisis practices, privacy posture, public-service claims, free access, legal-rights work, or referral architecture. Linked evidence
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Bonus Credits
| Bonus | Credit | Why this credit |
|---|---|---|
Openness to Dissent
?
Credit for tolerating internal, user, customer, worker, and public
dissent without retaliation, capture, or viewpoint laundering.
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2 / 3 |
The Trevor Project's public record makes Openness to Dissent relevant through its crisis practices, privacy posture, public-service claims, free access, legal-rights work, or referral architecture. Linked evidence
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Constitutional Spirit
?
Credit for respecting constitutional rights and civil-liberties norms
even where private law does not strictly require it.
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2 / 3 |
The Trevor Project's public record makes Constitutional Spirit relevant through its crisis practices, privacy posture, public-service claims, free access, legal-rights work, or referral architecture. Linked evidence
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Good Deal
?
Credit for unusually fair value: durable quality, fair pricing, low
lock-in, and clear customer surplus.
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3 / 3 |
The Trevor Project's public record makes Good Deal relevant through its crisis practices, privacy posture, public-service claims, free access, legal-rights work, or referral architecture. Linked evidence
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Cost Transparency
?
Credit for clear posted prices, all-in fees, unit costs, public rate
cards, margin/cost visibility, or surplus-allocation transparency,
especially in markets where opaque quotes, hidden fees, or
individualized pricing are normal.
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2 / 3 |
The Trevor Project's public record makes Cost Transparency relevant through its crisis practices, privacy posture, public-service claims, free access, legal-rights work, or referral architecture. Linked evidence
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Confidence Basis
Confidence Basis
Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.
High 80/100
16 verified linked claims 16 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 16/16 components covered
This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.
Claim confidence 16/20
16 verified linked claims
Source quality 10/18
Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability
Direct axis-specific claims 14/18
16 direct claims across 16 active components
Dispute load 12/12
0 disputed claims on this entity
Recency 10/10
Newest accepted timestamp: May 15, 2026
Reviewer status 7/12
Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding
Component coverage 10/10
16/16 evidence-bearing components have direct support
Evidence State
Evidence State
Claims and Sources
Claims are the evidence record. Each claim needs a source link, axis category, status, confidence level, and timestamp before it can support a score.
* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.1The Trevor Project's public record identifies whether the resource is nonprofit, federal, peer-run, culturally specific, or otherwise structured outside ordinary commercial lead generation.
- The Trevor ProjectGeneral web source · 58%
2The Trevor Project's public materials show the decision structure and accountability context behind the public-facing help resource.
- The Trevor ProjectGeneral web source · 58%
3The Trevor Project's reviewed model determines whether help is delivered as free public infrastructure, nonprofit service, federal portal, paid referral, or commercial capture of vulnerable users.
- The Trevor ProjectGeneral web source · 58%
4The Trevor Project's public record shows whether advocates, volunteers, peers, or staff provide help through a mission-oriented service rather than a purely extractive labor model.
- Trevor crisis servicesGeneral web source · 58%
5The Trevor Project's resource helps people with crisis, abuse, legal, treatment, benefits, food, disaster, digital access, health-cost, or other practical needs that often fall outside normal paid consumer markets.
- Trevor crisis servicesGeneral web source · 58%
6The Trevor Project's service absorbs navigation, search, information, referral, advocacy, emotional-support, or application burdens that would otherwise be pushed onto people in distress.
- Trevor crisis servicesGeneral web source · 58%
7The Trevor Project operates in an area where commercial substitutes often monetize desperation, confusion, lead generation, recurring fees, or informational asymmetry.
- Trevor crisis servicesGeneral web source · 58%
8The Trevor Project's core usefulness depends on accessible information, trained support, current referrals, confidentiality, eligibility clarity, and avoiding exploitative handoffs.
- The Trevor ProjectGeneral web source · 58%
9The Trevor Project's scale affects whether the resource remains accessible, noncommercial, culturally competent, and accountable as public need increases.
- Trevor crisis servicesGeneral web source · 58%
10The Trevor Project's public record makes Openness to Dissent relevant through its crisis practices, privacy posture, public-service claims, free access, legal-rights work, or referral architecture.
- Trevor crisis servicesGeneral web source · 58%
11The Trevor Project's public record makes Constitutional Spirit relevant through its crisis practices, privacy posture, public-service claims, free access, legal-rights work, or referral architecture.
- Trevor crisis servicesGeneral web source · 58%
12The Trevor Project's public record makes Good Deal relevant through its crisis practices, privacy posture, public-service claims, free access, legal-rights work, or referral architecture.
- Trevor crisis servicesGeneral web source · 58%
13The Trevor Project's public record makes Cost Transparency relevant through its crisis practices, privacy posture, public-service claims, free access, legal-rights work, or referral architecture.
- Trevor crisis servicesGeneral web source · 58%
14The Trevor Project terms reserve authority to alert law enforcement, state authorities, or emergency services when communications indicate imminent risk of death or serious physical injury.
- The Trevor Project Terms of ServiceGeneral web source · 58%
15The Trevor Project's public record makes Identity Capture relevant through its crisis practices, privacy posture, public-service claims, free access, legal-rights work, or referral architecture.
- Trevor crisis servicesGeneral web source · 58%
16The Trevor Project's public record makes Surveillance Capture relevant through its crisis practices, privacy posture, public-service claims, free access, legal-rights work, or referral architecture.
- Trevor crisis servicesGeneral web source · 58%
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