Partnership for Gender Equity
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
The Partnership for Gender Equity PGE is a not-for-profit organization with the mission to ensure that farming families have the resources and opportunities they need to build thriving farming communities.
- Income
- $180,036
- Spending
- $217,421
- Spent on programs
- 100%
- Reserves
- 0.6 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- donations and private grants, 100%
- Employees
- 0
- Highest pay
- $71,710, executive dir.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
Weak: 21 out of 100. Higher than 5% of charities in its peer group (civil rights, under $250k).
Reserves
4 of 35Spendable reserves would cover 0.6 months of spending.
Debt
2 of 20It owes 83% of what it owns.
Living within its means
0 of 15Spending exceeded income by 21% of income.
Income trend
0 of 15Income fell 44% on the year before.
Spending floor
15 of 15100% of spending went to programs and raising each dollar of donations cost 0 cents.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
Weak: 18 out of 100. Higher than 2% of charities in its peer group (civil rights, under $250k).
Independent board
5 of 250 of 11 voting board members are independent.
Conflict of interest policy
0 of 15Reports no written conflict of interest policy.
Whistleblower policy
0 of 8Reports no written whistleblower policy.
Record keeping policy
0 of 7Reports no written policy on keeping and destroying records.
Board minutes
0 of 5Reports that it does not keep minutes of board meetings.
Board sees the tax return
0 of 10Did not give the board a copy of this return before filing it.
Pay set independently
0 of 5Reports no independent review process for its chief executive's pay.
No reported misuse
10 of 10Reports no diversion of assets, excess benefits or loans to insiders.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (3)
- $217,421 spent. The GEI is a free online diagnostic tool that provides coffee roasters and chocolate brands and their agricultural business partners a systematic way to identify their gaps in service provision, gain access to right-fit solutions and recommendations and build internal capacity to deliver services in a way that reaches and benefits all farmers. The GEI diagnostic returns a comprehensive report with recommendations for how companies and their supply chain partners can improve their performance on service provision. This resulting GEI report is the basis for building an organizational plan, which becomes the company's roadmap for progress and communicating your efforts and advances to the market.
- Virtual and on-site workshops leverage EqualOrigins' diagnostic tool and action-planning process to support progress along a development path. The Better Together Workshop series is a virtual orientation to the GEI approach which supports agricultural businesses including producer organizations POs to design credible organizational and service delivery plans. Targeted support to partners includes design and improvement of plans and policies, extension and leadership programs, stakeholder engagement, budgeting, M&E and communications, and training for extension teams. Market access promotes end-market investments in producer organizations that use the GEI approach. Work in 2024 included POs in Columbia, Cote D'Ivoire, Honduras, and with service providers in Indonesia, Ecuador and Ethiopia.
- Equal Origins ensures that farming families have the resources and opportunities they need to build thriving farming communities in Latin America Africa and Southeast Asia. Equal Origins provides tools and capacity building for diverse agricultural businesses and farmer organizations that server farmers and their families.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since September 2019.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 21, 2026.
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