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The Blue Bench

Sexual assault trauma therapy, advocacy and prevention

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  • Research — reviewed programs, finances and impact evidence.

Updated: 2026-10-06

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Summary

What do they do? The Blue Bench provides free trauma-specific therapy and advocacy for survivors of sexual assault. The matched 2024 reference uses 212 individual-therapy clients, not 2,295 mixed service contacts. Health and signed household resources are assessed together without interpreting uncontrolled symptom improvement as causal QALYs.

Why we’re interested in this organization:

  • Annual therapy count and full IRS costs are matched to 2024.

  • Free, time-limited specialist care offers a concrete access mechanism.

  • Calls, repeated advocacy and overlapping group clients are not added as unique therapy beneficiaries.

Our main reservations:

  • Completion, response, utility, household deduplication and local share remain judgments.

  • The observed PTSD pre/post comparison lacks a control and does not measure QALYs.

  • Full recipient costs fund other unquantified channels; current donor capacity is uncertain.

What do you get for your dollar? $8.9M per DALY in Denver. DALY is our one-year comparison unit. QALY-based health gains and income-welfare equivalents retain their original assumptions; they are not measured clinical DALYs. Matched FY2024 full recipient annual cost against partial individual-therapy benefits, not whole-portfolio or marginal-gift effectiveness..

2024 annual table reports 212 individual-therapy clients. Group 40 can overlap; mixed total 2,295 includes 1,200 calls and is not unique people or completed households.

1. What do they do?

Current services include individual and group trauma therapy, crisis support, hospital advocacy, case management and prevention. Therapy does not bill insurance and is usually time-limited to six months. Advocacy or compensation applications do not establish increased disposable income.

2. Monitoring and information sharing

Request unique therapy clients and households, completed sessions, comparative symptom and utility outcomes, residence inside the pinned ten-county CBSA, actual otherwise-paid copays and after-cost work resources. Separate crisis contacts, advocacy and prevention outcomes from overlapping therapy clients.

3. Qualitative assessment

The annual table sums individual therapy 212, group 40, case management 252, post-conviction advocacy 166, resource navigation 425 and 1,200 calls to a mixed-unit total of 2,295. Only the individual-therapy envelope is used. The reported 76.2% to 25% PTSD symptom criterion comparison is uncontrolled and has unclear sample and attrition; it cannot identify causal utility.

4. What do you get for your dollar?

Matched calendar FY2024 full cost is $2,589,919: functional $2,585,426 plus netted direct event $4,493. The observed individual-therapy envelope is 212. Household conversion .9, completion .8, additionality .4, response .4, utility .03 for half a year and local share .95 are judgments. A $200 net household work/resource gain is after tax, benefit withdrawal and work/childcare costs, requires completed eligible care and separate .5 success, and is not survivor gross wages. Positive gains receive .5 overlap adjustment. All exposed households retain full $20 access/time loss and .0002 process harm even with failed benefits. Actual otherwise-paid copay saving and payer loss are central zero judgments, not measured absence. Sensitivities assess full provider/payer losses and unrecognized volunteer opportunity resources. The $1,396,328 therapy/advocacy program cost is a mixed-channel recognized-cost sensitivity, not allocated therapy-only or marginal gift cost.

Model, assumptions and sensitivity

FY2024 full IRS functional cost plus netted direct event expense. Partial individual-therapy benefits; crisis, advocacy, prevention and other benefits unknown, not zero.

Judged .95 Denver CBSA19740 resident share; nine service counties include Lincoln outside the ten-county pinned boundary. Service catchment does not measure recipient residence.

Health = (N × unique × b × eligible × completion × response × q × finite discounted duration − full exposed harm) × local share. Eligible completed changed households jointly log net resources and full access costs; other exposed households retain costs. Distinct payer incidence is localized once. Price = 10 × C / combined health and income equivalents.

C
2589919 USD annual (observed). Observed full FY2024 IRS functional $2,585,426 plus $4,493 netted direct event expenses. [finance]
N
212 annual individual therapy clients (historical 2024 envelope) (observed). Observed historical 2024 individual-therapy envelope 212 clients; uniqueness and completed dose are separate judgments. [annual]
unique
0.9 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [services] [cg-cost]
eligible
1 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [services] [cg-cost]
completion
0.8 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [services] [cg-cost]
b
0.4 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [services] [cg-cost]
response
0.4 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [services] [cg-cost]
q
0.03 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [services] [cg-cost]
T
0.5 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [services] [cg-cost]
g
0.95 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [services] [cg-cost]
delay
0.1 model parameter (judgment). Judged .1-year therapy-engagement start for both clinical and access/resource period, not immediate cost capitalized into later benefit. [services] [cg-cost]
r
0.03 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [services] [cg-cost]
harm
0.0002 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [services] [cg-cost]
success
0.5 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [services] [cg-cost]
workGain
200 model parameter (judgment). Judged $200 household disposable gain after taxes, benefits and work costs; not gross wages or compensation awards. [services] [cg-cost]
medicalGain
0 model parameter (judgment). Judged zero actual otherwise-paid copay displacement; retail therapy value is not cash benefit. [services] [cg-cost]
overlap
0.5 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [services] [cg-cost]
cost
20 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [services] [cg-cost]
baseline
20000 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [services] [cg-cost]
payerLoss
0 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [services] [cg-cost]
externalCost
0 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [services] [cg-cost]
payerPeople
10000 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [services] [cg-cost]
payerBaseline
50000 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [services] [cg-cost]

central: Cost: $2.6M; Denver health QALYs: 0.31; all-population health QALYs: 0.33. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.02. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

clinical null: Cost: $2.6M; Denver health QALYs: -0.04; all-population health QALYs: -0.04. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.02. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

financial only: Cost: $2.6M; Denver health QALYs: 0.00; all-population health QALYs: 0.00. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.02. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

zero benefit full burdens: Cost: $2.6M; Denver health QALYs: -0.04; all-population health QALYs: -0.04. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.09. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

no exposure: Cost: $2.6M; Denver health QALYs: 0.00; all-population health QALYs: 0.00. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.00. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

no gift no exposure: Cost: $0; Denver health QALYs: 0.00; all-population health QALYs: 0.00. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.00. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

adverse: Cost: $2.6M; Denver health QALYs: -1.13; all-population health QALYs: -1.19. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.46. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

unknown: Cost: unknown; Denver health QALYs: unknown; all-population health QALYs: unknown. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

no recipient resources: Cost: $2.6M; Denver health QALYs: 0.31; all-population health QALYs: 0.33. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.09. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

clinical response null: Cost: $2.6M; Denver health QALYs: -0.04; all-population health QALYs: -0.04. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.02. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

short health: Cost: $2.6M; Denver health QALYs: 0.14; all-population health QALYs: 0.14. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.02. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

one year health: Cost: $2.6M; Denver health QALYs: 0.66; all-population health QALYs: 0.69. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.02. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

low additionality: Cost: $2.6M; Denver health QALYs: 0.05; all-population health QALYs: 0.05. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.07. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

all additionality: Cost: $2.6M; Denver health QALYs: 0.83; all-population health QALYs: 0.88. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.09. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

half geography: Cost: $2.6M; Denver health QALYs: 0.08; all-population health QALYs: 0.33. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.00. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

no local share: Cost: $2.6M; Denver health QALYs: 0.00; all-population health QALYs: 0.00. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.00. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

no positive overlap: Cost: $2.6M; Denver health QALYs: 0.31; all-population health QALYs: 0.33. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.09. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

full positive overlap: Cost: $2.6M; Denver health QALYs: 0.31; all-population health QALYs: 0.33. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.05. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

negative overlap zero: Cost: $2.6M; Denver health QALYs: 0.31; all-population health QALYs: 0.33. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.18. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

negative overlap one: Cost: $2.6M; Denver health QALYs: 0.31; all-population health QALYs: 0.33. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.18. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

mixed resources: Cost: $2.6M; Denver health QALYs: 0.31; all-population health QALYs: 0.33. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.15. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

no access cost: Cost: $2.6M; Denver health QALYs: 0.31; all-population health QALYs: 0.33. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.07. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

high access cost: Cost: $2.6M; Denver health QALYs: 0.31; all-population health QALYs: 0.33. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.15. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

higher payer incidence: Cost: $2.6M; Denver health QALYs: 0.31; all-population health QALYs: 0.33. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.05. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

higher volunteer opportunity: Cost: $2.6M; Denver health QALYs: 0.31; all-population health QALYs: 0.33. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.16. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

double cost: Cost: $5.2M; Denver health QALYs: 0.31; all-population health QALYs: 0.33. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.02. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

recognized mixed community program cost: Cost: $1.4M; Denver health QALYs: 0.31; all-population health QALYs: 0.33. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.02. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

half connections: Cost: $2.6M; Denver health QALYs: 0.16; all-population health QALYs: 0.16. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.01. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

higher connections: Cost: $2.6M; Denver health QALYs: 0.47; all-population health QALYs: 0.49. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.03. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

household deduplication: Cost: $2.6M; Denver health QALYs: 0.24; all-population health QALYs: 0.25. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.01. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

no net work gain: Cost: $2.6M; Denver health QALYs: 0.31; all-population health QALYs: 0.33. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.09. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

higher after cost work: Cost: $2.6M; Denver health QALYs: 0.31; all-population health QALYs: 0.33. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.09. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

no eligible subgroup: Cost: $2.6M; Denver health QALYs: -0.04; all-population health QALYs: -0.04. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.09. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

no completed dose: Cost: $2.6M; Denver health QALYs: -0.04; all-population health QALYs: -0.04. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.09. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

low clinical response: Cost: $2.6M; Denver health QALYs: 0.01; all-population health QALYs: 0.01. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.02. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

no copay otherwise paid: Cost: $2.6M; Denver health QALYs: 0.31; all-population health QALYs: 0.33. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.02. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

three full year mean cost: Cost: $2.5M; Denver health QALYs: 0.31; all-population health QALYs: 0.33. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.02. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

low completed dose: Cost: $2.6M; Denver health QALYs: 0.01; all-population health QALYs: 0.01. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.08. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

no volunteer opportunity: Cost: $2.6M; Denver health QALYs: 0.31; all-population health QALYs: 0.33. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.02. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

full completed dose: Cost: $2.6M; Denver health QALYs: 0.40; all-population health QALYs: 0.42. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.00. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

Counterfactual: Other trauma clinicians, public victim support, insurance and natural recovery without this free specialist therapy; untreated access barriers remain plausible.

Attribution: Additionality .4, completion .8 and response .4 are judgments. Uncontrolled local pre/post symptoms do not identify incremental causal success.

Current donor capacity, therapy completion, utility, duration, household overlap, net work gains, provider losses and local residence are unmeasured. Other channels are unknown.

Sensitivity

  • clinical null: no finite positive estimate. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.
  • financial only: no finite positive estimate. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.
  • zero benefit full burdens: no finite positive estimate. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.
  • no exposure: no finite positive estimate. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.
  • no gift no exposure: no finite positive estimate. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.
  • adverse: no finite positive estimate. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.
  • unknown: no finite positive estimate. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.
  • no recipient resources: $11.7M per DALY. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.
  • clinical response null: no finite positive estimate. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.
  • short health: $21.7M per DALY. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.
  • one year health: $4.0M per DALY. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.
  • low additionality: no finite positive estimate. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.
  • all additionality: $2.8M per DALY. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.
  • half geography: $33.6M per DALY. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.
  • no local share: no finite positive estimate. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.
  • no positive overlap: $11.7M per DALY. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.
  • full positive overlap: $7.1M per DALY. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.
  • negative overlap zero: $20.5M per DALY. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.
  • negative overlap one: $20.5M per DALY. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.
  • mixed resources: $16.3M per DALY. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.
  • no access cost: $6.8M per DALY. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.
  • high access cost: $16.5M per DALY. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.
  • higher payer incidence: $9.8M per DALY. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.
  • higher volunteer opportunity: $17.5M per DALY. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.
  • double cost: $17.7M per DALY. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.
  • recognized mixed community program cost: $4.8M per DALY. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.
  • half connections: $17.7M per DALY. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.
  • higher connections: $5.9M per DALY. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.
  • household deduplication: $11.4M per DALY. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.
  • no net work gain: $11.7M per DALY. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.
  • higher after cost work: $6.5M per DALY. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.
  • no eligible subgroup: no finite positive estimate. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.
  • no completed dose: no finite positive estimate. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.
  • low clinical response: no finite positive estimate. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.
  • no copay otherwise paid: $8.9M per DALY. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.
  • three full year mean cost: $8.4M per DALY. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.
  • low completed dose: no finite positive estimate. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.
  • no volunteer opportunity: $8.9M per DALY. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.
  • full completed dose: $6.5M per DALY. Conditional matched 2024 individual trauma-therapy envelope of 212 clients, not summed crisis calls or overlapping advocacy contacts. Completion, utility, net resources and residence share are judgments. Full recipient costs include other unknown channels.

Unresolved inputs

  • Unique completed therapy and household overlap
  • Comparative causal utility and net resources
  • Measured CBSA patient residence
  • Allocated clinical cost and next-gift capacity
  • Other advocacy, crisis and prevention outcomes

Health and income breakdown

For the modeled $2.6M: 0.31 health QALYs + -0.02 income-equivalent healthy years in Denver: $8.9M per DALY. Income equivalents are welfare comparisons, not observed QALYs or DALYs.

Method and caveats.

5. Funding and previous grants

Own current donation page identifies EIN 84-0905184; no transaction was made. Public victim support, insurance and alternative trauma providers remain in the counterfactual. Current funding disruption and the available newer impact report do not prove funded incremental clinical capacity. Government compensation transfers require recipient and payer incidence, not gross awards as income.

Annual expenses

Organization-level spending, including programs, administration and fundraising. The research list averages three comparable, consecutive full fiscal years when available.

  • FY 2024: $2.6M; org:blue-bench, 12-month period, IRS full functional expenses plus netted direct event expenses. Source
  • FY 2023: $2.6M; org:blue-bench, 12-month period, IRS full functional expenses plus netted direct event expenses. Source
  • FY 2022: $2.2M; org:blue-bench, 12-month period, IRS full functional expenses plus netted direct event expenses. Source

6. Sources

  1. Current free trauma therapy and service catchment. The Blue Bench. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  2. 2024 annual therapy and mixed-contact table. The Blue Bench. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  3. FY2024 original IRS full expense. IRS original filing. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  4. FY2023 original IRS full expense. IRS original filing. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  5. FY2022 original IRS full expense. IRS original filing. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  6. Current recipient giving page. The Blue Bench. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  7. Health and signed income comparison framework. Coefficient Giving. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.