The Exodus Road is facing a decline in real actual donations after the recent 2023 scandal (where we have been exposing them.)
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The Exodus Road is a non-profit run by a married Evangelical couple, Matt and Laura Parker, from a Colorado Springs PO box. They are pretty much a marketing/PR company ran via a PO box, with tax exemptions, and they are helping possibly unscrupulous wealthy individuals clean money in the name of the lord to avoid tax and clean money. They are not really interested in helping the world or making a difference. Many experts in the anti-trafficking community have questioned their real impact.
Although they only hire Evangelicals, receive donations from Evangelicals, and wrongly use donation money to teach discipleship, they are registered at their PO Box as a non-religious charity. (Even the name is “The Exodus Road” Christian related) Matt and Laura pay themselves very large salaries for a shared part-time job role, 280,000 USD a year, and filter a lot of money to Thailand, where they plan to retire. (426,026 USD was sent to Thailand in 2023 towards bribes, lavish lifestyle, their holiday home and retirement) Thailand has very, very low salaries, low costs and rent. (perfect for pocketing most of it)
Matt and Laura Parker have been involved in many scandals; the first one was co-signed by 30+ odd ex-staff in the “The Exodus Road open letter“, which gained FBI attention and in the end, they paid corrupt lawyers to sweep it all up. Their lawyers were also in trouble for trying to persuade a sex abuse victim not to come forward. Read more about their lawyers here
Matt and Laura Parker have been accused several times of not really rescuing people, and recently, we have exposed them for setting people up and trafficking girls themselves in the process. Our campaign to bring the truth to the donors has seemed to work. Naturally, they have fiddled with the financials to make it look like they are doing better and have to spend more money greasing palms. (evidence further down)
Matt and Laura Parker try to put themselves as these Hollywood characters saving the world when, in reality, they are living a lavish lifestyle, banking lots of money, lots of holidays and travel. It has been questioned over and over if they are having any real impact because they hang around in open-air bars using donation money for sex (until we exposed them in 2023). They are constantly criticised for using over-inflated numbers of victims rescued, but calling the police on a victim is not a rescue. In April 2024, they stopped setting people up, and their undercovers stopped having sex with prostitutes and ran off because of impending legal action.
How did they try to make 2023 financials look better than 2022?
Early in 2023, the accountants at The Exodus Road walked out without notice. Laura Parker had to try and get more in quickly. The FBI need to speak to these accountants, our informant said mis-appropriation of funds.
Laura and Matt Parker struggle with sticking to the truth. As usual, they do their PR write-up to pretend things are going well for them because the truth would put people off donating.
“When I reflect on 2023, I celebrate a year of continuous
growth for The Exodus Road—with all of the excitement
and challenges that come with that progress.” Laura Parker
The only thing that Laura and Matt Parker are good at is excellent marketing, deceiving good people into donations, helping friends with tax write-offs and laundering, and making themselves lots of money; no one else can rake in so many millions from a PO box as they do. They are declining in staff and spending more to keep donors. One tip we have for the dishonest couple is not to pay corrupt cops to send innocent people to jail, and we wouldn’t have put a spotlight on your non-profit for profits, and do not lie about aftercare.
Check the picture below. They removed the figures for “The Freedom Home” scam after we exposed their fake aftercare home. Finally, they have been more honest and added it to “Alpha—Thailand” spending, which is mostly bribes to police, like 88,371 USD paid to the deputy police of Thailand.
You can read more about their freedom home scam here.
Notice that there is no money next to The Freedom Home after we exposed it as a lie.
Advertising, promotions, and donor relations went from 432,829 USD in 2022 to 915,305 USD in 2023, so they have almost doubled backhanders and sweeteners to keep donors and extra advertising due to the fact that people are learning the truth about how they operate from their PO box, pretending to be a large organisation, making a huge difference when it’s primarily glossy photos, good editing, and self-promotion, which comes naturally to narcissistic people.
They have decreased staff in 2023 in their failing non-profit, but they are paying themselves extremely well for so few people. With just a PO box and most people working part-time or from home, the salaries should be much lower. (if it was a real business, they wouldn’t survive) They operate in countries with very low costs.
In 2023 we started exposing Matt and Laura Parker on all social media, they have been going to less conferences, more holidays which is why travel costs increased 40%. And because they haven’t been showing their faces, the conference bills have decreased from 38,938 USD a year to 9,387 USD. The last conference I attended was 100 USD, but they paid for VIPs, expensive hotels and food. If anyone has been to these non-profit conferences, you will find many people who work for charities but have as much free time as they want and boast of 5-star hotels and business class flights. But they all feel they deserve it for saving the world. Please do not donate to these corporate, glossy, highly marketed charities. (that are just money making machines.)
True donations written under “contributions and grants” were around 2,695,526 for 2022, and now it’s down 4000 USD to 2,691,181 USD for 2023. However, backhanders to donors (wineing, dining, hotels, etc) and promotions went from 432,829 USD in 2023 to 915,305 USD, so they have had a lot less money actually coming in after bribing the people in charge of giving donations out.
In 2023, The Exodus Road received 2,691,181 USD in real donations, Minus travel 167,288 USD and backhanders to donors (donor relations) 915,305 USD Thailand play/retirement/bribe money 426,604 USD, and large salaries (729,981 USD). What’s left to make a real impact?
Why are salaries so high when operating in cheap countries with no aftercare or real investigations?
12 years ago, Matt and Laura Parker started helping a school in Thailand; they probably set out well. Matt became addicted to the bars and bar girls while he lived in Chiang Mai, Thailand. However, when they started a charity and Evangelists’ money was flooding in thanks to the Pulpit Rock Church (The Pulpit Rock donates 250,000+ USD per year to The Exodus Road from their community donations who give it to them in good faith), (Jonathan) Matt Parker got greedy and started getting big-headed. You can see in their social media posts and interviews how much they fancy themselves, PO box Matt refers to himself as a visionary often and says he needs long holidays to plan his visions. Hence why they pay themselves so much and think they are worth lavish lifestyles. When did Matt Parker get so corrupt from greed?
How many children could have been rescued or helped if they had used the money honestly and efficiently and didn’t have first-class travel, hotels, large salaries, backhanders, and benefits? What if donors had sent it to an honest charity?
They started up a fake war between them and legal bar owners. This meant their male operatives could get sex while working undercover, and donors paid for their cheap sex and nights out. Even Preston Goff, their marketing manager, was caught in a brothel in Jomtien, Thailand, with Rickson Souza.
In 2023, The Exodus Road spent 27.12 % of its real donations on salaries. (2,691,181 USD in real income and 729,981 USD in salaries.)
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