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BORN THIS WAY FOUNDATION

EIN 45-2752227 NEW YORK, NY

Revenue 2024
$6,032,453
Expenses 2024
$6,939,064

Program services were 85.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T30
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 97

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • CYNTHIA GERMANOTTA

    DIRECTOR, PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $312,996
    From this org
    $293,978
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,018
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $293,978
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $10,347
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,671
    Filer's total
    $312,996

  • ALEXANDER ROQUE

    DIRECTOR, SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TAMIKA L TREMAGLIO

    DIRECTOR, TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHARLES B ORTNER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SEAN F CASSIDY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • STEFANI GERMANOTTA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • RACHEL MARTIN

    CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $268,452
    From this org
    $250,951
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,501
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $250,951
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $8,830
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,671
    Filer's total
    $268,452

  • GETENESH M YILMA

    VP, CONTENT AND BRAND

    Total calculated
    $170,105
    From this org
    $155,913
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,192
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $155,913
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,521
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,671
    Filer's total
    $170,105

  • GARY A AIDE

    VP, PROGRAMS AND IMPACT

    Total calculated
    $168,134
    From this org
    $153,942
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,192
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $153,942
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,521
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,671
    Filer's total
    $168,134

  • CLAUDIA FERNANDES

    VP, RESEARCH AND EVALUATION

    Total calculated
    $166,526
    From this org
    $152,281
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,245
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $152,281
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,574
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,671
    Filer's total
    $166,526

  • MEGAN BRADLEY

    SENIOR MANAGER, PARTNERSHIPS

    Total calculated
    $132,105
    From this org
    $119,663
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,442
    Hours/week
    40

  • SHADILLE ESTEPAN

    SENIOR MANAGER, COMMUNICATIONS

    Total calculated
    $122,033
    From this org
    $113,578
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,455
    Hours/week
    40

  • JOSHUA MEREDITH

    CHIEF OF STAFF

    Total calculated
    $123,914
    From this org
    $105,862
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,052
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $6,032,453
    Expenses
    $6,939,064
    Contributions
    $5,829,812
    Grants paid
    $3,314,098
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $7,129,796
    Expenses
    $3,591,699
    Contributions
    $7,162,535
    Grants paid
    $500,201
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,342,823
    Expenses
    $4,912,613
    Contributions
    $5,276,796
    Grants paid
    $1,793,540

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 10 September 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.