Vol. 1 · No. 1 An Independent Review Updated October 22, 2026
The Marici
Accountability Review

A claim-by-claim record of public statements made by the nonprofit Marici (marici.org), and what could be verified from public sources.

§ 01 — Methodology

How this review was conducted.

This review uses only primary public sources. No information has been obtained through hacking, social-engineering, deception, or any unlawful method. No source on this site has been paid. The review has no funding from any nonprofit, government agency, or commercial entity.

Each claim quoted from Marici is taken from materials they have themselves published. Where impact figures are quoted, the source platform is identified — including third-party donor platforms (Millie Giving, Benevity, Charity Navigator, GuideStar) which republish information supplied by the organisation itself.

Financial figures are taken from IRS Form 990 filings, which are public documents the organisation is legally required to file. Form 990s are accessed via ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer, which mirrors IRS data.

Where this review notes that a piece of evidence is “not publicly available,” that statement reflects diligent searching of: (a) Marici's own website and subdomains; (b) standard nonprofit databases; (c) Google Scholar, ResearchGate, and arXiv for academic claims; (d) public press releases, news media, and US government anti-trafficking reports; (e) social-media profiles of the organisation and its named officers; (f) the Wayback Machine for historical snapshots. The absence of evidence in those locations is documented as such; it is not characterised as proof of falsehood.

All claims and sources will be re-verified at least monthly. Significant changes, corrections, and updates will be logged in the changelog below with their date.

Preserving the public record. Readers wishing to preserve a stable, independently-hosted record of any URL referenced on this site can submit it to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine via web.archive.org/save. The archived snapshot is independent of both this publication and Marici, and persists if either party subsequently modifies or removes the original. Visual evidence captured by this publication — such as the donation-tier screenshot embedded on the home page and at Claim 05 — is dated in the caption and preserved as a static asset on this site.

§ 02 — Primary sources

Every link, every quote.

Every claim on this site is sourced. Each link below points to the original public material referenced. All were archived to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine prior to publication.

Note, 29 September 2026: in June 2026 marici.org moved from its earlier WordPress pages (/our-solution/, /get-involved/, /donate/) to static .html pages. Links above to the older URLs may no longer resolve on the live site; the timeline’s snapshot index lists archived copies of both versions.

Archived snapshots of each source as of the date of publication are preserved separately. If any of the originals is modified or removed after publication, the archived version will remain accessible and will be referenced in the changelog.

§ 03 — Changelog

Every update, logged.

Every substantive change to this site is recorded here, with date and reason.

  • update Structured-data and machine-readability pass. Per-claim and per-article pages now emit og:type=article with article:published_time / article:modified_time / article:author / article:section / article:tag meta; the publisher schema is upgraded to NewsMediaOrganization with diversity / ethics / corrections / actionable-feedback policies; per-claim pages gained FAQPage and SpeakableSpecification JSON-LD plus a Related coverage footer. llms.txt was refreshed to list every page and llms-full.txt now auto-regenerates at build time. Added a JSON Feed at /feed.json, humans.txt, /.well-known/security.txt, additional AI-crawler allowlist entries, and real per-claim sitemap lastmod dates.

    Editorial substance is unchanged. The publication’s verdicts, the eight reviewed claims’ status pills, the Marici quotes, and the right-of-reply commitment are all preserved verbatim. What changed is metadata, schema, and machine-readable surface area.

    • llms.txt now lists every page — including /timeline/, /glossary/, /for-regulators/, /scorecard/, and the eight per-claim permalinks.
    • llms-full.txt is auto-generated at every build via a new postbuild script (scripts/build-llms-full.mjs).
    • og:type=article with article:published_time / article:modified_time / article:author / article:section / article:tag meta on per-claim and article-shaped pages.
    • Publisher schema upgraded to NewsMediaOrganization with diversityPolicy, ethicsPolicy, correctionsPolicy, actionableFeedbackPolicy, missionCoveragePrioritiesPolicy, and masthead, shared from a single source (src/lib/seo.ts) instead of duplicated per page.
    • Per-claim FAQPage JSON-LD, generated from two existing schema fields (substantiationQuestion / substantiationAnswer + publicEvidenceQuestion / publicEvidenceAnswer) already present on all eight claims.
    • SpeakableSpecification JSON-LD on every per-claim page, targeting the verdict line and the verbatim quote.
    • A “Related coverage” footer on each claim, linking to sibling claims, the timeline, and the AI-analysis section.
    • JSON Feed 1.1 at /feed.json alongside the existing RSS at /feed.xml.
    • Nine additional crawlers added to the robots.txt allowlist: Brave-Search-Agent, MistralAI-User, PetalBot, Kagibot, Webzio-Extended, Timpibot, OmgiliBot, Omgilibot, ImagesiftBot.
    • /humans.txt and /.well-known/security.txt added.
    • Sitemap lastmod is now emitted only for /claims/<slug>/ URLs, sourced from each claim’s dateLastChecked frontmatter. No other URL carries a fabricated build-time lastmod.
  • update Updated Claim 07 (the conflicting EIN) from 'corrected' to 'partial' after locating a Wayback Machine capture showing the discrepancy reappeared on a relaunched donate page.

    Claim 07 was logged as corrected on 1 June 2026, when the then-live marici.org/donate/ page displayed only the matching EIN, 82-1536804. A newly located Wayback Machine capture of a relaunched, static donate.html, dated 11 June 2026, shows the mismatched EIN, 85-3455940, back on the page — in the US trust strip and in the page’s own client-side script — alongside the correct EIN, 82-1536804, in the footer tax-deductibility notice. 85-3455940 still cannot be matched to any nonprofit in the IRS exempt organizations database (ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer returns no record for it). The claim’s status has been changed to “partial” to reflect that the discrepancy reappeared after being logged as corrected, and that the live site has not been re-verified since the 11 June 2026 capture, as it is currently behind a Cloudflare challenge.

  • publication Published four new claims drawn from a June 2026 Wayback re-verification of marici.org, documenting figures that do not reconcile within Marici's own archived pages and filings.

    Four new claims were added following a byte-for-byte re-verification of marici.org snapshots captured 11 June 2026. Claim 09 documents that marici.org’s about.html and solution.html describe “five massive interconnected cities” collapsed in 2025, while faq.html, captured the same day, describes “six major interconnected cities” — with three different totals (32, 41, and 42) given for the wider city and country count. Claim 10 documents that faq.html’s lifetime totals of “105,000 children” freed and “1,700 criminal networks” neutralized differ from the lifetime figure of 86,000 children documented in Claim 04 (which also cites 655 networks neutralized in 2025 alone), sourced to marici.org, GuideStar, and Millie Giving. Claim 11 documents a “0% Re-trafficking rate across the 2018–2024 completed aftercare cohorts” for which no cohort size or follow-up methodology is published, alongside the IRS record showing no employees for tax years 2017 and 2020. Claim 12 documents that Marici’s “350+ interdisciplinary operatives” claim sits against a Form 990 filing reporting 2 W-2 employees for 2024, 2 for 2023, 4 for 2022, and 1 for 2021, with the filings silent on who the operatives are or how they are engaged.

  • update Added a Federal-grant trail section to /for-regulators/ (USASpending and Federal Audit Clearinghouse return zero records for Marici / Take Her Back), per-claim Open Graph share images, an old-anchor redirect for /claims/#claim-NN, an Astro <Image>-served donation-tier screenshot, datePublished/dateModified JSON-LD on the remaining pages, and reader controls in the footer (dark mode, reduce italic accent, dyslexic-friendly font, plus a reduced-motion preference).

    Notable corrections in this pass:

    • The /for-regulators/ page previously described Marici as “Maryland-incorporated” and “headquartered in Beverly Hills.” The IRS Form 990 of record (mirrored on the ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer) lists the registered address as 100 Pine St, Suite 1250, San Francisco, California. The page now reflects the IRS record directly.

    Substantive additions:

    • A new Federal-grant trail section on /for-regulators/ records the dated results of searches across USASpending.gov, the Federal Audit Clearinghouse, Grants.gov, IRS Tax Exempt Search, ProPublica, and the principal state AG charity registries. The combination — registered tax-exempt charity (positive); zero federal grants, contracts, or Single Audits located (negative) — is itself the editorial point: a federally funded provider of anti-trafficking intelligence systems ordinarily appears in USASpending.
    • Per-claim social-share images now render the verbatim claim, status pill, and canonical URL on the publication’s masthead style; the shared default OG image has been replaced with per-page generators at /og/.

    Build infrastructure:

    • The donation-tier screenshot is now served via Astro’s <Image> with AVIF and WebP variants and PNG fallback.
    • Reader controls (dark mode, reduce italic accent, dyslexic-friendly font fallback) live in the footer of every page; settings persist in localStorage with no server-side tracking.
    • A prefers-reduced-motion: reduce block disables all transitions globally for readers who request it.
    • Old /claims/#claim-NN anchor links now redirect to the canonical /claims/{slug}/ permalink on arrival.
    • All principal pages now emit datePublished and dateModified distinct from build date.
  • update Published a new claim-escalation timeline and a product-registry trail. The timeline reconstructs, from archived Wayback snapshots of marici.org, when each expansive AI claim entered Marici's public-facing copy. The product-registry section records the result of dated searches across USPTO, SEC EDGAR, npm, PyPI, Hugging Face, GitHub, and USASpending.

    The principal new finding: in archived Wayback snapshots of marici.org from September 2021 through 8 February 2026, the only AI reference on the public site is a single mention of a “gamified AI-based digital learning program” for survivor English education. The expansive AI claims documented at /ai-analysis/ — “the world’s most sophisticated AI,” “over 50 AI tools,” the named “AI Prosecutor / AI Behavioral Scientist / AI Intelligence Analyst,” “predictive mapping at 80%+ accuracy,” and the “full-stack AI nonprofit” label — are not present in any archived snapshot before mid-May 2026.

    During the same five-year window, the same taxonomy (“intelligence collectors / analysts / prosecutors / behavioral scientists”) was used by Marici to describe members of its human team — “an interdisciplinary team of over 100” in September 2021, “over 280+” in December 2025, and “over 300+” in February 2026. The expansive AI rebrand, in which the same job titles re-appear as the names of AI tools, is visible on the live site by the date of this publication’s mid-May observation.

    The product-registry trail records that, as of 1 June 2026, no live or pending USPTO trademark, SEC EDGAR filing, npm package, PyPI package, Hugging Face model, GitHub organisation, or USASpending grant could be located associating the three named tools with Marici (EIN 82-1536804) or its predecessor Take Her Back. Marici is invited to direct this site to any public-registry entry that should be added.

    This update also adds per-claim deep-link copy and email-this-claim buttons, a status-pill filter on /claims/, a “Cite this page” widget on /ai-analysis/ and each per-claim permalink, an InvestigativeReportingArticle JSON-LD typing on the principal articles, and a GitHub-style heading anchor affordance.

  • update Migrated the eight reviewed claims, the changelog, and the new glossary to typed Astro content collections. Each claim now has a dedicated permalink, an inline archive.org snapshot link, an explicit verdict line, and a standing right-of-reply footer.

    The site’s editorial substance is unchanged. The architectural change improves citability, makes claim-level updates auditable, and removes the previous duplication between the /claims/ index and the /ai-analysis/ page. Each of the eight claims is now reachable at its own URL under /claims/{slug}/, and a Zod-validated schema requires every claim to carry a date last checked, a Marici-response field, and a one-sentence verdict line stating what evidence would substantiate the claim and what has been located in the public record.

  • publication Initial publication of the review, including the eight-claim review, the AI Analysis page, the open letter, the For Donors guide, the secure tipline, and the methodology and sources index.

    The review went live with primary sources archived and a verbatim reproduction of every claim under examination. Marici was invited, via a contact-form submission to marici.org, to a full right of reply.

  • update Open letter dispatched via the marici.org contact form; awaiting a response.

    The full text of the open letter is published at /open-letter/. Any reply received will be published verbatim on this site, in a location and at a prominence equivalent to the material being responded to.

§ 04 — Right of reply

For Marici, its officers, or its supporters.

Marici, any of its officers, any of its directly identified staff, or any donor or supporter who feels misrepresented by anything on this site is offered a full, unedited right of reply, to be published on this site in a location and with a prominence equivalent to the material being responded to.

Responses may be transmitted via the encrypted methods on the Tips page, or by any equivalent means including postal mail. Responses received will be published verbatim, in full, regardless of length or content, subject only to (a) redaction of personally identifying information about third parties who have not consented to such publication, and (b) standard editorial annotation where a response makes a factual claim that can be cross-checked against the public record.

Where a response substantively answers a question on this site, the corresponding claim's status will be updated and the change recorded in the changelog above.