Equimundo Center for Masculinities and Social Jus

Overview

Mission

We are an applied research organization dedicated to achieving gender equality and social justice by transforming intergenerational patterns of harm and promoting care, empathy, and accountability among boys and men throughout their lives to engender a safe, just, and caring world.

What it reported doing in 2024

Equimundo Center for Masculinities and Social Justice (Equimundo) draws on its core approaches to focus on three thematic pillars: (1) Caring Men: Redefine caregiving as a meaningful aspect of mens lives; (2) Healthier Boyhoods: Fostering environments that support boys and young men to live diverse, equitable, and healthy masculinities, and (3) Social Connection: Working to foster healthy, pro-social interactions and cultivate inclusive allies in civic spaces. Two of our flagship initiatives are the Global Mencare Campaign, which promotes mens involvement as equitable, non-violent caregivers across over 50 countries, highlighting the positive impact of active and engaged fathers on family well-being and gender equality; and the Global Boyhood Initiative (GBI), active across five (5) continents and which believes that shifting inequitable and restrictive ideas about gender affect individuals from a young age is crucial to achieving gender equality.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 85% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 72% for direct work, and 28% for grants.

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
261931968
IRS 990 coverage
2013–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2010
Headquarters
Washington, DC, USA
Phone
2025880061
Rating
69
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Victims' Services

Official website

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 87
  • Transparency & Controls: 44
  • Accountability: 91
  • Sustainability: 17
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 79.4%; rating input score 79
  • Fundraising efficiency: $12.82 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -26%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.68; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 13.4%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 79.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $244K · 16 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $114K reported
  • Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 11 annual filings from 2013 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Leadership & pay

16 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • Gary Barker (President & CEO Ex-Officio): $243,703 total reported compensation
  • Giovanna Lauro (Deputy CEO Ex-Officio): $193,359 total reported compensation
  • Brian Smith (VP Finance & Operations-Ex-Officio): $162,232 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: FY2024.