Advocates for Trans Equality
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 820861095
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2017
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2026424542
- Rating
- 53
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Civil Liberties
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $424,852
- Expenses
- $36,853
- Assets
- $558,663
- Liabilities
- $121,556
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SISSI YADO (PRESIDENT)
- RODRIGO HENG-LEHTINEN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- ANDREA MARRA (A4TEEF CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- RODRIGO HENG-LEHTINEN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $217,192 total reported compensation
- JACOB MCCLAIN (A4TEEF CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $186,928 total reported compensation
- ANDREA MARRA (A4TEEF CEO): $92,524 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Advocates for trans equality fights for the legal and political rights of transgender people in america. Leveraging decades of experience on the frontlines of power, we shift government and society towards a future where we are no less than equal.
What it reported doing in 2024
General program: a4te's programmatic work improves the lives of trans people and their families by educating the public and lobbying for the adoption and implementation of trans-inclusive legislation at the local, state, and federal levels. A4te also educates and empowers trans people and allies to mobilize as advocates for trans equality, pressing politicians to take action and holding them accountable when they support anti-trans legislation and policies.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 27
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 4.3%; rating input score 4
- Program expense ratio: 49%; rating input score 49
- Fundraising efficiency: $53.05 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 21st 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: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: 91.3%; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 15.16; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.22; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 120.3%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -25.5% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.8% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 4.3% of revenue deployed · 49% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $18K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $217K · 8 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 4/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.