Movement Advancement Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473968535
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Boulder, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3035784600
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Lesbian, Gay Rights
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,159,010
- Expenses
- $4,340,258
- Assets
- $6,663,740
- Liabilities
- $207,165
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- NAOMI GOLDBERG (EXECUTIVE DI): $226,429 total reported compensation
- INEKE MUSHOVIC (EXECUTIVE DI): $220,369 total reported compensation
- CALLA DEVLIN (PUBLIC EDUC/): $203,385 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 movement advancement project (map) provides rigorous research, insight, and analysis that help speed equality for all americans.
What it reported doing in 2024
Lgbtq policy research - produced policy reports and analyses that are persuasive, easy-to- understand, and actionable including on topics such as efforts to restrict voting rights and attacks on inclusion efforts. - participated in collaborations and coalitions to advance lgbtq data inclusion, to advance federal policies to support lgbtq people, and to support state advocates. - maintained, updated, and expanded the lgbtq equality maps, which are maps top-performing content for both media coverage and page views on the website, and the democracy maps, which provide a holistic state-by-state look at election laws and policies. Movement research and messaging: - maps team of communications, messaging, and policy experts consistently provided nuanced and clear analyses to the media, helping them better communicate about key issues of the day; to advocates in the movement to inform their advocacy and messaging; and to the public directly through our creative and strategic communications work. - conducted movement assessment and building work to help organizations, funders, and other movements better understand lgbtq organizational capacity, including surveys of lgbtq community centers and leading lgbtq advocacy organizations. Open to all - brought together businesses to create environments where customers, employees and vendors can feel a true sense of belonging and be valued and respected for who they are.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 89% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 91% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.9%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 88.5%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $83.42 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: -4.4%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.54; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 28.1%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.1% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 92.9% of revenue deployed · 88.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $226K · 20 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $941K reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.