The Queer Trans Project Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
932233380
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Jacksonville, FL, USA
Phone
9048009317
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
LGBT Centers

Reported finances

Revenue
$269,743
Expenses
$333,946
Assets
$94,189
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Cielo Sunsarae (Executive Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • Alexis G Williams (Deputy Director): $51,229 total reported compensation
  • Cielo Sunsarae (Executive Director): $33,335 total reported compensation
  • Alexander Romero (Field and Relations Fellow): $15,439 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Queer Trans Project a Black-led and Trans-led initiative is dedicated to providing gender-affirming resources to empower queer and trans individuals worldwide equipping them with the confidence and power to drive social change in their communities. Our mission centers on urgently delivering essential supplies and assistance to help combat dysphoria and promote dignified safe private and empowered living. Across programs our data tells a consistent story: trans and gender-diverse people know who they are but face systemic financial geographic and social barriers to living as themselves.

What it reported doing in 2025

The Build-a-Queer Kits program offers free gender-affirming items like chest binders packers tape and other essentials to trans and gender-diverse individuals unable to access these items safely or affordably. Our 2025 impact: - 5,490 Transgender & Gender Diverse People Served in the U.S. - $506,352.64 Valuation of Items Distributed - 12,109 Total Items Distributed Pre-survey data from the Build-a-Queer Kits program shows that many respondents already felt comfortable in their gender identity prior to engaging with QTP. Nearly half reported feeling mostly or very comfortable and over three-quarters reported at least some comfort. This reflects a community with strong self-knowledge and clarity about who they are. At the same time more than three-quarters of respondents reported that accessing gender-affirming care and items was somewhat or very difficult with fewer than one in ten reporting that access was easy. Taken together these findings highlight a critical distinction: confidence in identity does not equate to access to resources. Many respondents know who they are but lack the financial means safety or availability needed to express that identity in daily life. This tension helps explain why QTPs work is impactful even among people who already feel confident in their gender. The kits do not create identity; they remove barriers. Early post-survey responses suggest that once access is provided recipients experience increased comfort expressing their gender greater confidence living authentically and frequent integration of their selected gender-affirming items into daily life.

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

STRONG - 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: 100
  • Accountability: 91
  • Sustainability: 20
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 89.3%; rating input score 89
  • Program expense ratio: 72.1%; rating input score 72
  • Fundraising efficiency: $17.82 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • 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: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -23.8%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.28; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 31.7%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 75.9% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 200% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 89.3% of revenue deployed · 72.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $241K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $51K · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 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.
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 52/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.