Legal Momentum

What it reported doing in 2024

Legal programs: legal momentum's legal department focuses on a number of issues important to advancing gender equality for women, including: workplace equality and economic empowerment: through our women valued initiative, legal momentum is implementing strategies to advance gender equality in the workplace and enhance economic security for women, with a focus on the most vulnerable groups, including women of color, women working in low-wage industries, survivors of gender-based violence, and immigrant women. (continued on schedule o)(continued from part iii, line 4b) by developing a know-your-rights guidance on the broad spectrum of workplace rights and related benefits and providing training and outreach to low-income women, the project aims to promote early intervention by educating women about how to actively assert their rights in the workplace and when trying to enter the workforce. The project also raises awareness and engages in legislative and regulatory advocacy for reform at the national, state, and local levels to advance gender equality in the workplace and enhance women's economic security.combatting violence against women: legal momentum is working on several projects with the goal of empowering survivors to address gender-based violence and ensuring informed community responses and accountability for violence perpetrated against women and girls including: a. Research and policy advocacy guidances to pass a federal and/or state-based gender-based violence civil rights remedy to replace the vawa civil rights remedy struck down by the u.s. Supreme court in u.s. V. Morrison (2000); b. Litigation on behalf of survivors of gender-based violence who have faced discrimination in the workplace on the basis of their status as a survivor of domestic/sexual violence; c. Through our newly launched online training, helping sexual assault victims navigate the criminal justice system, legal momentum provides training and technical assistance to victim advocates on how to provide effective advocacy for sexual assault victims as they attempt to navigate the criminal justice system. D. Leading efforts to enact broader workplace protections for survivors.reproductive justice: legal momentum is expanding our work on reproductive rights to engage in research, outreach, and litigation to challenge government surveillance of and intrusion into the lives of pregnant persons. Ensuring equal educational opportunities for women and girls: legal momentum, with expertise in title ix of the education amendments of 1972, provides legal assistance and counseling to victims of campus sexual assault and to students who are pregnant and parenting, and engages in nationwide policy advocacy on these issues. Additionally, legal momentum is beginning the seventh consecutive year of our successful 'rights now!' program, under a grant from the New York city council young women's initiative. Through this program, legal momentum develops trainings, peer educational programming, and resources to empower young, at-risk girls (particularly girls of color) in New York city and provide them with accessible information about their rights as students and young workers.helpline - direct services and technical assistance: legal momentum's helpline receives several hundred calls per year from women seeking assistance for such matters as employment issues (sexual harassment, sexual discrimination, pay equity, pregnancy accommodation), campus sexual assault, gender-based violence. Callers are provided with technical assistance, or referrals to other legal service providers (including the private bar), and government agencies.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 76.1%; rating input score 76
• Program expense ratio: 69.5%; rating input score 70
• Fundraising efficiency: $12.09 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
  • Written employment contract: Pass
  • 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; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Fail
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -2.4%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.96; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.45; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 24.8%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: -3.9% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: -7.5% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: -4.8% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings