Interact Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 272947576
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2011
- Location
- Swampscott, MA, USA
- Phone
- 7077931190
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Civil Liberties
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $757,363
- Expenses
- $818,013
- Assets
- $687,104
- Liabilities
- $34,046
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CATHERINE CLUNE-TAYLOR (CO-PRESIDENT)
- NIKI KHANNA (CO-PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ERIKA LORSHBOUGH (EXECUTIVE DI): $137,217 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Interact works to empower intersex youth and advance the rights of all people with innate variations in their physical sex characteristics through advocacy, public engageemnt and community connection. From the beginning, interact has recognized that we must consider not only medical outcomes, but also the civil and human rights of children born with intersex traits. As always, interact remains committed to advancing the discussion with a sense of respect and compassion for the children, parents, doctors and intersex adults involved.
What it reported doing in 2024
Media & publig engagement: staff, youth members and board members participated in/presented 35+ talks and trainings, reaching an audience of 1,600+, including a talk on trans and intersex solidarity with famed triathlete chris mosier and sessions reaching hundreds of healthcare providers. Interact produced several new resources, including a comprehensive intersex 101 handout and a brochure on reproductive justice for intersex people. Interact media launched on intersez youth stories series featuring the first person narratives of twelve intersex young people, and provided trainings to youth members on advocacy, digital security, and working with press. We collaborated with glaas on a statement and media guide responding to interphobia at the olympics, and celebrated intersex awareness week with youth art on intersex futures.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 79% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.8%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 77.3%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.72 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 37; 37th 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: Limited
- 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 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.84; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.8%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.9% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.3% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.5% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.8% of revenue deployed · 77.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $632K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $137K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 37/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.