Transforming Families

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
994006633
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Rating
68
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Services N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$296,276
Expenses
$231,545
Assets
$212,319
Liabilities
$16,917

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

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Hannah Edwards (Executive Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • Hannah Edwards (Executive Director): $75,685 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Transforming Families (TFF) is an inclusive safe space for families with transgender, non-binary, and questioning youth. TFF's mission is to create a better world for transgender youth and their families.

What it reported doing in 2025

Our primary function is to hold peer support meetings throughout communities in Minnesota. We currently offer 9 in-person meetings across the state and one online group. Parents work with TFF- trained parent facilitators, gaining support and tools so that they can create a safe, trans-positive home. Teens spend time in group together, led by a paid trans young adult facilitator, building community and learning from each other. TFF is proud of our ongoing service to families with trans youth. TFF also holds a yearly celebration called Day of the Transgender Child. The event has several goals, including celebrating our trans children with a community gathering, bringing resources together to share services offered for the queer community, and highlighting trans artists and community leaders in performances and speeches. We will celebrate our 10 annual event in 2026. TFF engages in ad-hoc activities under the following umbrellas: * Community awareness and training, often in conjunction with partner organizations * Advocacy for trans youth in schools, camps, and other community spaces * Peer assistance through one-on-one meetings with parents and other youth supporters * Collaborative work with other queer-centered organizations*. TFF holds several yearly fundraising events, including: * Craft fair and makers' market - where we sell craft items donated by the community * Restaurant and brewery partnerships - donations of a portion of the entity's profits for a * day Annual Gala Evening: profits from ticket sales, auction, and straight donations*.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 83% 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 and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 55
  • Transparency & Controls: 84
  • Accountability: 79
  • Sustainability: 50
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 51.9%; rating input score 52
  • Program expense ratio: 66.4%; rating input score 66
  • Fundraising efficiency: $11.27 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 10th 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: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 21.8%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.92; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 32.7%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 58.2% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 51.9% of revenue deployed · 66.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $154K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $76K · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 21 of 22 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 40/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.