Basic Rights Education Fund

What it reported doing in 2024

Transgender justice work: within the lgbtq community, transgender individuals face disproportionate rates of unemployment, poverty, harassment, assault and homelessness. Institutional barriers to health care and identity documents, as well as discrimination and mistreatment by government agencies contribute to these adverse outcomes. Our transgender justice program seeks to address and counter these conditions through our work with policy makers and state agency staff on three key issues: transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage, full implementation of our state's existing nondiscrimination law and improving the safety and wellbeing of transgender oregonians in jails and prisons. (continued on schedule o)according to the 2015 u.s. Trans survey, transgender people are twice as likely to be unemployed and twice as likely to live in poverty than their non-transgender peers. To help address this crisis, we administer our fair workplace training, which aims to increase the number of Oregon employers committed to providing an inclusive and affirming workplace for transgender employees. Demand for the program has proven high, and since launching it in october 2016, we've delivered over 200 trainings. Recipients have included businesses, like amazon and pacific bell, government agencies, like the bureau of labor and industry and the bonneville power administration, and health centers, like ohsu. In order to accommodate a wider variety of training requests, we are diversifying our content. We now offer a specific module for medical centers and retail settings.we similarly present transgender 101 trainings across the state. In the past we've offered sessions in coos bay, pendleton and albany, to name a few. These trainings, which are held at welcoming churches, are designed to provide resources and create allies. We've found a high demand for these presentations as well, with the events across the state throughout the year. Basic rights is also committed to prioritizing the leadership of our transgender and gender nonconforming community members. We do this through our ongoing leadership development cohort: catalyst. This yearlong cohort affords participants real life opportunities to acquire skills in community organizing, program management and relationship building, as well as the chance to find mentors in their chosen fields. It features residential weekend retreats and day-long trainings, as well as hands-on experience at lobbying, organizing and fundraising. We prioritize diversity in the recruitment of this 20-person cohort, with a goal of at least 30% of the participants living outside the portland metro area.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
• Program expense ratio: 68.5%; rating input score 68
• Fundraising efficiency: $3.07 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Missing
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 24th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -85.8%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.54; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0.7%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: -5.5% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: -7% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings