Council on Social Work Education
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 541856529
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Alexandria, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7036838080
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,057,852
- Expenses
- $10,793,469
- Assets
- $9,906,125
- Liabilities
- $6,873,283
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- HALAEVALU VAKALAHI (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- HALAEVALU VAKALAHI (PRESIDENT & CEO): $355,190 total reported compensation
- MEGAN M SIMS-FUJITA (VP OF EDUCATION): $292,747 total reported compensation
- ARMINN LEOPOLD (VP OF FIN & OPS, (UNTIL 5/9/25)): $245,552 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Cswe's mission is "to advance excellence and innovation in social work education, by providing leadership and scholarship, to ensure quality in teaching and learning, supporting critical thinking, empathy, and advocacy to strengthen the capacity of our membership". (see sch. O)
What it reported doing in 2024
Other programs: cswe houses two institutes, two centers, and other initiatives that strive to strengthen and improve specific areas of social work education through faculty and student training, policy, advocacy, and data collection. Some examples include:- the katherine a. Kendall institute for international social work education works to prepare educators, researchers, students, and practitioners for an increasingly global community.- the cswe leadership institute is designed to promote future leaders in social work education, higher education, and the social work profession.- the cswe center for diversity and social & economic justice advances individual growth, community well-being, and social justice.- the recovery to practice initiative develops, implements, and evaluates mental health recovery-oriented training materials for social work educators and practitioners.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 75% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 83% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.1%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 71%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.1%; rating input score 99; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7.3%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.92; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.69; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.6%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.1% of revenue deployed · 71% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 15 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 8 filed program accomplishments · $7.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $355K · 20 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $814K reported
- Consistency: 36 of 37 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.