Miss Major and Alexander L Lees TGIJP
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 853693121
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4155548491
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- LGBT Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,854,533
- Expenses
- $5,569,522
- Assets
- $7,759,192
- Liabilities
- $4,481,842
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Janetta Johnson (CEO)
- Stephany Ashley (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Janetta Johnson (CEO): $170,763 total reported compensation
- Zyaire Nassirah (Co-Director): $130,023 total reported compensation
- Erik Schnabel (Development Dir.): $128,489 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization works to challenge and end the human rights abuses committed against transgender, gender variant, and intersex people, particularly against Black and transgender women of color, in California prisons, jails, detention centers, and beyond.
What it reported doing in 2024
Wellness The program is designed to support transgender women of color in San Francisco - especially Black transgender women by addressing their unique needs through wellness, and leadership development services. The participants, the majority of whom are Black, face intersecting challenges like homelessness, violence, substance use, and criminalization due to systemic racism, transphobia, and structural trauma. The programs aim to empower these individuals to self-advocate and heal, while confronting the lasting impacts of police violence, incarceration, and chronic marginalization.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 61% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 72% for direct work, and 28% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.9%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 77.5%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.6 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 29; 29th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -14.7%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.39; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.58; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.5%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 45% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.4% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 27.7% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.9% of revenue deployed · 77.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 4 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $4.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $171K · 11 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $253K reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.