Gender Health Center

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 263839452
IRS 990 coverage: 2014–2024
Forms available: Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2013
Location: Sacramento, CA, USA
Phone: 9164552391
Rating: 86
Verdict: STRONG
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Counseling, Support Groups

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue: $1,205,306
Expenses: $1,030,898
Assets: $823,092
Liabilities: $246,866

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

MALAKAI COTE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AS OF 03/24)
LILY WEAVER (BOARD PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

ALEXANDRIA GARCIA (DIRECTOR OF HEALTHCARE SERVICES): $85,460 total reported compensation
MALAKAI COTE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AS OF 03/24): $83,993 total reported compensation
JENNIFER WILLIAMS (DIRECTOR OF FINANCE): $79,732 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

We are dedicated to ending the pantheonization of trans people and creating more equitable access to healthcare and healing resources through our programs, training, and direct services that prioritize the wellness and joy of queer, transgender, black, indigenous, people of color (qtbipoc).

What it reported doing in 2024

Mental health services: at the gender health center, counseling services focus on queer-informed narrative therapy. This modality of therapy utilizes the power of peoples' personal stories. Community members are encouraged, through a respectful and cooperative relationship, to address the issues in their lives that exist amidst social, political, and cultural contexts. Gender health center offers individual, relational, family, and group counseling services delivered by a dedicated team of graduate student trainees, associate clinicians, and doctoral interns. As a mental health training program, gender health center is committed to cultivating the next generation of counseling professionals who practice through a lens of healing-centered engagement, cultural humility, and liberation.

Operating model

Revenue model: Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model: Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 84
Transparency & Controls: 94
Accountability: 86
Sustainability: 47
Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 78.5%; rating input score 79
Program expense ratio: 91.8%; rating input score 92
Fundraising efficiency: $64.5 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Pay-setting controls: Limited
Foreign activity oversight: Limited
Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th 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: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

Operating margin: 14.5%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.8; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.3; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 25.9%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 20.4% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 78.5% of revenue deployed · 91.8% of spending went to programs
Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $946K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $85K · 7 people listed
Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2024
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
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.
Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.