The Transgender District
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 922302661
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4157182303
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,756,405
- Expenses
- $1,322,337
- Assets
- $959,088
- Liabilities
- $186,962
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- CARLO GOMEZ ARTEAGA (CO EXE. DIR): $133,507 total reported compensation
- BREONNA MCCREE (CO-EXE. DIR): $131,162 total reported compensation
- SEAN GREENE (CAO): $127,485 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 mission of the transgender district is to create an urban environment that fosters the rich history, culture, legacy, and empowerment of transgender people and its deep roots in the southeastern tenderloin neighborhood. Our vision is to stabilize and economically empower the transgender community through ownership of homes, businesses, historic and cultural sites, and safe community spaces.
What it reported doing in 2025
Throughout 2025, the transgender district expanded its impact through innovative programming, cultural preservation, health initiatives, and community partnerships, including: 1.hosted the annual tgnc health & wellness fair during black history month, welcoming more than 80 participants and connecting community members with direct providers and affirming health and wellness resources. 2.conducted monthly name and gender marker change clinics, delivered blankets to residents at the taimon booton navigation center, the only transgender shelter in the bay area with a capacity for 80 beds, and launched the district's first self-defense training to promote safety and well-being. 3.participated in the funding forward conference and held the organization's annual board retreat to strengthen leadership, sustainability, and strategic planning. 4.celebrated transgender history and culture through events honoring the life and legacy of sylvester, a screening of any other way about jackie shane, and collaborated with psyched radio sf for their largest tl festival 5.partnered with ucsf to host the national transgender health summit, convening more than 1,000 attendees from across the country to advance transgender health, research, and advocacy. 6.organized a screening of breaking the news and served as a beneficiary of both the qt fashion show hosted by the academy and drag me downtown, leveraging arts and culture to support community programming. 7.led transgender history month celebrations, including a community flag- raising ceremony, the release of the san francisco transgender district history book featuring elder stories, and signature events such as expansive and reparations is a riot, which launched the district's riot fund. 8.opened the district office as a welcoming community space for gatherings and programming that celebrated transgender life and history in the tenderloin district. We co-hosted and co-lead two immigrant symposium's in partnership with parivar, providing immigration access to lgbt+ community members. 9.collaborated with the san francisco lgbt center to present the district's first beauty event in partnership with chanel, alongside wellness programming including yoga with ki, self-defense training with the san francisco lgbt center, lyric, and community initiatives partnership (cip). 10.closed the year by hosting a community-wide end-of-year celebration that brought together residents, partners, and supporters to reflect on accomplishments and strengthen connections across san francisco's transgender community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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 and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 54.6%; rating input score 55
- Program expense ratio: 72.6%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $11.52 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 24.7%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.73; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 29.7%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.3% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.9% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 54.6% of revenue deployed · 72.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $960K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $134K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 39/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.