Massequalityorg the Campaign for Equality Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
043581319
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2015–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2014, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Worcester, MA, USA
Rating
63
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Lesbian, Gay Rights

Reported finances

Revenue
$61,442
Expenses
$96,881
Assets
$21,395
Liabilities
$57,454

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Tanya Neslusan (Executive Director)
  • Rob Henry (President)

People named in this filing

  • Tanya Neslusan (Executive Director)
  • Rob Henry (President)
  • Jordan Evans (Treasurer)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

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

Overview

Mission

Massequality is the leading statewide grassroots advocacy organization working to ensure that everyone across Massachusetts can thrive from cradle to grave without discrimination and oppression based on sexual orientation gender identity or gender expression. Massequality does this by partnering across issues identities and communities to build a broad inclusive and politically powerful movement that changes hearts and minds and achieves policy and electoral victories.

What it reported doing in 2024

During 2024-2025 MassEquality engaged in legislative lobbying and grassroots advocacy at the Massachusetts State House to advance LGBTQ+ equality and protect the Commonwealths LGBTQ+ communities. The organization advocated for legislation on legal parentage equality; the health treatment and safety of incarcerated LGBTQI+ people; gender-neutral bathrooms; pharmacist prescribing and administration of PrEP; trans-inclusive health care access and coverage of gender-affirming care; LGBTQ+ inclusive curriculum; an LGBTQI+ long-term care facility bill of rights; privacy in legal name changes; LGBTQ+ health disparities; profiling of transgender people and low-income women; repeal of archaic laws; location-data privacy; and access to books and educational materials. MassEquality also worked to oppose anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-transgender legislation and mobilized community members and allies to contact legislators and defend existing Massachusetts protections.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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. 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: 44
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 11
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 51.3%; rating input score 51
  • Program expense ratio: 32.5%; rating input score 33

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -57.7%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.69; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 90.9%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -10.3% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -18.3% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -14.4% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 51.3% of revenue deployed · 32.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $32K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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.

Key Signals

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

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 51/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 33/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.