Interfaith Working Group
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 232842734
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2020
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2012, Form 990-N 2008
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Phone
- 2675075507
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religious Media, Communications
- Affiliation
- Interfaith
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $285,900
- Expenses
- $196,622
- Assets
- $123,963
- Liabilities
- $30,674
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CAEDMON GRACE (PRESIDENT)
- LOUIS MITCHELL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & SECRETARY)
People named in this filing
- JAIME MATHENY (TREASURER)
- CAEDMON GRACE (PRESIDENT)
- LOUIS MITCHELL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide multi-faith, multi-racial, and multi-gender advocacy in support of transgender and gender non-conforming communities nationally.
What it reported doing in 2020
Transfaith creates and resources in-person and on-line opportunities for authentic multi-faith, multi-racial, and multi-gender engagement among and about transgender communities. Working in national and regional networks, we reduce isolation / marginalization, and build resilience / empowerment in both formal and informal settings currently through events, consultation, mentoring, online publishing, and social media.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% 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
SUPPORTED - 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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 46
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 40.3%; rating input score 40
- Program expense ratio: 58.6%; rating input score 59
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.66 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 35; 35th 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: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 31.2%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.63; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -24.2% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.3% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 40.3% of revenue deployed · 58.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $115K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2019 to 2020
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 40/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 35/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.